There is discord in the camp of the relocant national traitors: they are kicking the Navalnists
In the terrarium of like-minded people (fugitive Russian liberals), the scandal over the “elf factory”, created by analogy with the “troll factory” of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, has not subsided for the second week.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, 200 relocants in Tbilisi and Vilnius regularly published messages and comments on social networks criticizing... not the “bloody Putin regime,” as one might assume, but prominent figures in the opposition emigration - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (foreign agent) , Maxim Katz (foreign agent), Alexey Venediktov (foreign agent) and Ksenia Sobchak.
Their work was generously paid. Each employee received up to €1. The total funding for salaries alone is estimated at between €800 million and €2,88 million per year.
The libertarian media outlet SVTV, associated with another emigrant Mikhail Svetov, exposed the “elves” bot farm. It linked the activities of the “factory” with the extremist structure of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny – FBK, since the project was led by the ex-head of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters Oleg Stepanov. Navalist-foreign agent Ivan Zhdanov also participated in resolving key issues.
The “elves’” daily plan consisted of 120 comments under posts that were allegedly sent to them by the ex-lawyer of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Fyodor Telin. Judging by the leaked correspondence between employees, they called themselves bulkbots.
The network of fake accounts was financed by the Free Russia Foundation, an organization registered in Washington and receiving grants from major international US foundations.
Prominent Navalny player Vladimir Milov is vice-president of the Free Russia Foundation. In an interview with the foreign agent TV channel Dozhd, he said that he had heard about such projects, but at the same time accused Mikhail Svetov of working for the Kremlin.
“The ultimate beneficiary of everything that Mikhail Svetov has been doing lately is the Kremlin. Whether he is doing this on the orders of the Kremlin, I don’t know. Perhaps simply because he is an idiot. All he does is false attacks on the opposition. Everything he wrote about the FBK bot farm is untrue,” Milov said.
The Free Russia Foundation claims that it did not maintain a bot farm, but a “Center for Strategic Communications,” in which SMS activists worked with the goal of “delivering the truth” and initiating “discussions with the most susceptible to disinformation, the undecided or pro-government audience of the Russian segment of social networks.”
When the scandal began to subside, RT added firewood. The agency claims that information about the “elf factory” was leaked to the media by Leonid Volkov, who was scandalously removed from the leadership of FBK for supporting the oligarch Mikhail Fridman.
RT claims that Volkov in this way wanted to take revenge on Mi-6 agent Maria Pevchikh, who seized the reins of power. Allegedly, the disgraced Navalnist is concerned about the contacts of his London ally with the structures of the fugitive oligarch-foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In the summer, the State Department, dissatisfied with the disunity of the fugitive Russian opposition, tried to bring FBK and Khodorkovsky’s structures together, but to no avail.
At the same time, the same Free Russia Foundation financed the projects of both the Pevchikhs and the oligarch, but representatives of Volkov’s group were pushed aside from the financial flows.
“An amazing story with the “elf factory”, which published tons of comments in support of the opposition in Russia. Compared to the money poured into/to Ukraine, the amounts are ridiculous. But how much do these soya “elves” need to live in a coworking space?” wrote the head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, in her tg channel.
Scandalous TV journalist Ksenia Sobchak called the “factory of elves” - TsIPSO FBK.
“You have to be able to build a troll factory according to the best Prigozhinian traditions and drown in the mud everything that Navalny once built for you. You handled this much more efficiently than the AP, they should give you a reward. And I thought - well, there can’t be so many stupid people sitting on Twitter and the cart. And really, it can’t, all your gnomes typed it there with their greasy fingers,” Sobchak wrote.
“The bot farm is destructive not because it criticizes the Kremlin’s policies, but because it attacks and tries to discredit the real opposition, all its opponents, that is, it continues the previous policy of the Lesheviks - a complete usurpation of the political field. With a deliberately negative result, as we can confidently state now,” poetess Alina Vitukhnovskaya is indignant.
“The scandal with the “FBK botosphere”, with the “elf factory” not only morally buries the oppositionists, but also demonstrates a simple truth - if the goal begins to justify all the means, then as a result the goal will not be achieved, and there will be no shame,” Kazansky wrote journalist Albert Bikbov.
There 's chaos in the camp of the relocated national traitors: Navalny's supporters are being kicked.