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me.? A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or Iran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case t
anies to acquire crucial assets in democratic countries. The firms that participated in the public relations audition were Hill+ Knowlton, Ogilvy, Ketchum, FleishmanHil- lard, and Edelman. According to the Reuters account, the firms were asked to give a presentation non China's most pressing image pro
ivil war," was also designed as another milksop to Russia. The speech used precisely the language that the Kremlin uses whenever it wants to accuse the United States of acting like a superpower: "This is not a zero-sum endeavor," Obama said of the current geopolitical landscape. "We are no longer in a Cold War.
ly "exceptional" about their country at all in the emerging new world order. He did this with a troika of passive- aggressive moves. First, via the Ketchum public relations company, Putin published an op-ed in the New York Times—it went live on the newspaper's website on September 11—in which he cautio
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.’ A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019246 →rominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019246 →may feel emboldened to drop their quasi-democratic camouflage due to the lack of diplomatic repercus- sions for such actions. The European Union and the United States have criticized Belarus as “Europe's last dictatorship,” but they always seem willing to give Lu- kashenka another chance to improve relations based
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019247 →rists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. ¢ The United States is planning a major war in Eu- rope to enable Washington to cancel its national debt
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Jeffrey Epstein
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George W. Bush
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Ghislaine Maxwell
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Department of Justice
ORGANIZATIONLeon Black
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Prince Andrew
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New York
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Marc Rich
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Donald Trump
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Bill Clinton
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Samantha Power
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Barack Obama
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George Mitchell
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Alfredo Rodriguez
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Bloomberg L.P.
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Vicky Ward
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Hillary Clinton
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Vladimir Putin
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Middle East
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