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Brussels \u2013\u00a0Blue background and yellow stars, mimicking the European Union’s flag, Prague headquarters and multi-language news bulletins: Voice of Europe, or the voice of Russia in Europe.<\/strong> The intelligence services of the Czech Republic (BIS) have unmasked pro-Russian propaganda actions carried out by an online newspaper, in these hours inaccessible probably because it is blocked. According to the security services, the masthead was run by Viktor Medvedchuk<\/strong>, a former Ukrainian oligarch friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Medvedchuk was immediately placed on the sanctions list by the Czech Republic, as was his closest employee, Artyom Marchevsky.<\/p>\n

There is a suspicion that Voice of Europe paid politicians from at least six member states<\/strong> (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, and Poland) to influence political debate and public opinion. Names of politicians are not known so far;\u00a0 Czech media do not provide lists<\/a>, probably due to an ongoing investigation. Suspicion inevitably falls on members of the most eurosceptic and traditionally Russia-sympathetic parties, but all is yet to be proven.<\/p>\n

The narrative about the war’s fate is particularly in the crosshairs, with the message that peace is conceivable if Ukraine gives up some of its land, a condition that the European Union and its member states reject.<\/p>\n

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Intelligence blitz: online newspaper run by former Ukrainian oligarch friend of Putin. Suspected payments to politicians from six countries to influence debate and public opinion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":349334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25681,25707],"tags":[25746,26995,25803,26403],"class_list":["post-349395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","category-world-politics","tag-disinformation-en","tag-russia-in-2","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349409,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349395\/revisions\/349409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}