DISINFO: Navalny is financed by the West as a fifth column against Russia

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: topwar.ru ( archive, original )
  • Date of publication: August 09, 2019
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Russia

DISINFO: Navalny is financed by the West as a fifth column against Russia

SUMMARY

Aleksei Navalny is a project of the Western special forces. He has been leading our “fifth column” under the cover of western NGOs. “Navalny” is a US project, just like “Saakashvili”, “Yushchenko”, “Guaido” and “Zelinskyy”. All of the, except for the last one, has attended training as “young leaders” in America.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory, presented without evidence. The article is in line with a narrative that protests, in this case in Russia, are always financed by outside forces. Similar cases can be found here.

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