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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Russian charged with conspiring to recruit US political groups to spread propaganda for Moscow

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A Russian national has been charged with recruiting political groups in the US to spread propaganda for a Kremlin intelligence agency, the Department of Justice said on Friday.

Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov is accused of hiring operatives of political groups in Florida, Georgia and California to “sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere” in US elections from 2014 to March 2022, according to an unsealed indictment.

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