Foreign propagandists

Viktor Mihály Orbán

Hungary

Prime Minister, co-founder and leader of the Fidesz party

Pro-Russian statements

Since 2014, he spoke out against the sanctions imposed on the russian federation and in favor of their cancellation, justifying this by the conjecture that "EU sanctions increased gas prices and inflation." In February 2022, he declared the failure of the West's strategy to support Ukraine, the impossibility of Ukraine's victory in the war, and the only possibility of ending the war - through direct negotiations between the USA and russia. In November 2022, during a friendly match of the national football team, he wore a scarf with the image of the map of "Greater Hungary", with parts of Ukraine and other neighboring states in it. In January 2023, at a meeting with journalists, he said: "The West must understand that putin cannot afford to lose the war and will not lose it." At the same time, he claimed that "russia's goal is to turn Ukraine into an ungovernable ruin so that the West cannot claim it as a prize", called Ukraine as a "no man's land" and warned that if Ukrainians cross the russian border with Western weapons, "the future will be so bright that the West will have to wear sunglasses." In the same month, during a festive dinner in honor of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, he said that "russians" live to the east of Hungary.

Work place

Hungarian government, Fidesz party

Viktor Mihály Orbán

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy

Member of the Senate, founder and leader of the Forza Italia party, former Head of the Council of Ministers of Italy

Pro-Russian statements

In September 2015, he illegally visited Crimea, annexed by the russian federation, where he met with putin. In the same month, the Security Service of Ukraine banned Berlusconi from entering the territory of Ukraine in the interests of ensuring the security of the state. In May 2022, he said that "Europe should unite and make a peace proposal to putin and Ukrainians, trying to force Kyiv to accept russia's demands." In September 2022, he said that Putin "was dragged" into the war, and russian troops "were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv within a week, replace Zelensky’s government with decent people and then leave." In October 2022, he called putin a "man of peace" and called on the West to stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, at the same time declaring that the issue of Crimea's ownership "should no longer be discussed" and that new referendums should be held in Donbas. In February 2023, he declared that he "would never have gone talking to Zelenskiy" if he were prime minister, accused him of starting a full-scale Russian invasion, and called on the US to put pressure on Zelenskyi. Berlusconi has been charged in Italy with bribing his former lawyer for perjury, with sexual relations with minors and with abuse of power.

Relations with the Russian Federation

Since the mid-1970s, he was in contact with representatives of the KGB. In 2014, putin referred to Berlusconi as his "old friend".

Work place

Italian Senate, Forza Italia party

Silvio Berlusconi

David Pugliese

Canada

Journalist for the Ottawa Citizent

Pro-Russian statements

In 2023, he pointed out that Canada is under pressure to supply weapons to Ukraine.
In an article in January 2023, he wrote: "The Liberal government is spending more than $400m on the purchase of air defense systems for Ukraine, even though the Canadian armed forces have not had such equipment for more than a decade."
In June 2023, TW posted: "Zelensky vows swift crackdown on corruption in Ukraine - High-level corruption allegations include report on questionable military procurement practices, despite officials promoting national unity to resist Russian invasion."

Relations with the Russian Federation

In 2019, he published an article entitled "Canadian officials honor Nazi collaborators in Ukraine, angering Jewish groups", where he pointed out that in "June 2018, the Canadian government and the military in Ukraine met with members of the ultra-nationalist battalion "Azov", which earlier that year Congress Banned by the US from receiving American weapons because of his ties to neo-Nazis."
In 2021, TW wrote that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine and that "Canadian military training neo-Nazis in Ukraine are using the old tactics of claiming Russian disinformation."

Work place

Journalist Ottawa Citizen

David Pugliese

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger

Switzerland

President

Pro-Russian statements

In January 2023, she visited the russian federation and met with lavrov, according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the russian federation, they discussed "prospects of the committee's work in the republics of Donbas." In March 2023, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, stated that the ICRC had delivered computer and office equipment for the needs of the occupation administration to Mangush, which was occupied by russian troops. According to him, the equipment was handed over to, among others, the "department for children's affairs", which facilitates the deportation and abduction of children of Ukraine by the occupiers, as well as the "administration of social protection of the population", which is actively involved in forced passporting. The ICRC representatives denied this information.

Relations with the Russian Federation

Before being elected to the position, she worked as the Director of the United Nations Development Program Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS. In 2019-2021, she participated in the events of the "Roscongress" foundation, which was established by putin "with the aim of facilitating the development of russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image."

Work place

International Committee of the Red Cross

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger

Agnès Callamard

France

Secretary General of Amnesty International

Pro-Russian statements

In August 2022, Amnesty International published a report in which it accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine of creating danger to the civilian population. In particular, the Ukrainian military has been accused of stationing and using weapons in residential neighborhoods, schools and hospitals. At the same time, the organization claimed that it "is not aware of the fact that Ukrainian military personnel, stationed in civilian buildings in residential areas, asked or helped civilians to evacuate from nearby buildings." The report also quotes Agnès: "We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas". At the same time, she wrote in TW that "Amnesty has documented tirelessly Russia aggression, war crimes in Ukraine. Today we report on Ukraine tactics endangering civilians. To those who attack us alleging biases against Ukraine, I say: check our work. We stand by all victims. Impartially". She also called those who criticized the report on social networks as "trolls," and the criticism itself - as "war propaganda and disinformation."

Work place

Amnesty International

Agnès Callamard

Cristiano Alves de Lima

Brazil

Blogger, translator

Pro-Russian statements

In August 2022, he called the posters with an ambush of putin, which he saw at the Polish airport, as "unacceptable absurdity". He claimed that there is "almost no" propaganda in the russian federation, while in Poland it is "almost everywhere". In September 2022, he claimed that the russians had destroyed a "base of foreign mercenaries", including Brazilians, at the Yavoriv training ground, at the same time he stated that the topic of russia was presented in the Brazilian mass media "horribly and falsely". He stated: "If I can succinctly tell about the history of russia, then I will say this: this is the history of the struggle of justice against Satanism. ... The same thing is happening in Ukraine today. And now there is a fight against Satanism - gender ideology, the promotion of LGBT values, the glorification of Nazism. And russia is fighting against it. Indeed, there is a war going on. But this war was not started by russia. The West has been waging this war against russia for many years."

Relations with the Russian Federation

In childhood, he studied russian. He lived in the russian federation for several years, from where he was deported in 2019 due to a violation of the visa regime.

Cristiano Alves de Lima

Martin Aagård

Sweden

Journalist, culture editor, musician

Pro-Russian statements

In December 2013, he wrote an article about the protests on the Maidan, in which he claimed that the Ukrainian protest was taken over by ultra-nationalists, called "Svoboda" a "classic fascist party" with "aggressive anti-russian politics." He cited putin's quote that the Maidan "looks more like a pogrom than a revolution" and noted that this may be true. In March 2014, in his article about the Crimean "referendum", he claimed that "as early as 1992, the fascist movement grew in the western parts of the country", therefore "Crimea tried to break away from the new nation". He declared the "massive support" of russia by the Crimeans, explained it by the "obvious hostility of the new Kyiv regime towards the russian minority in Crimea" and the need to "throw the fascists out of the new Kyiv government." In May 2022, he claimed that "russian neo-Nazis who hate putin" were serving in the Territorial Defense of Ukraine and accused Ukraine of using prisoners of war in information warfare.

Work place

"Aftonbladet" newspaper, "Dagens ETC" newspaper, "Doktor Kosmos" band

Martin Aagård

Peter Maurer

Switzerland

President of the Board, former President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Pro-Russian statements

In March 2022, after the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he visited russia and met with lavrov. During the meeting, Maurer appealed to the russian authorities to open an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Rostov-on-Don "to improve the work of the organization in the east of Ukraine", and also called the occupied Ukrainian territories as "disputed zones". At the same time, russian troops were forcibly deporting residents of Mariupol to the Rostov region, and the ICRC closed its mission in the city that same month, according to Maurer, "due to a lack of operational capabilities." In the same month, he visited Ukraine, and the purpose of the visit was stated to be "to call for wider access of humanitarian organizations to victims and more effective protection of the civilian population in order to alleviate the increasing suffering of the people", as well as "to achieve stricter compliance with the norms of international humanitarian law".

Relations with the Russian Federation

In April 2021, he was awarded a medal by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the russian federation, saying that it was "a great honor for the ICRC and for him personally."

Work place

Basel Institute on Governance

Peter Maurer

Elon Musk

USA

Co-founder, CEO, investor

Pro-Russian statements

In October 2022, he published a survey in TW about his own "peace plan" for Ukraine. The plan included the neutrality of Ukraine, the inclusion of Crimea in the russian federation, the provision of its water supply, and repeated referendums under the supervision of the UN in the regions of Ukraine annexed by the russian federation. In addition, he called the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR as "a mistake of Khrushchev". In subsequent posts, he also frightened subscribers with russian mobilization, the death of millions of people, and called Ukraine's victory as "unlikely." According to American political scientist Ian Bremmer, Musk had a personal conversation with putin before the publication of this "peace plan". In February 2023, he reposted an article dated 2014, which claimed that the "illegal overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected and pro-russian president" was the "last straw" for putin, after which he annexed Crimea. In the comments, Musk wrote: "no question that there was indeed a coup."

Relations with the Russian Federation

In 2001-2022, he traveled to Moscow to purchase refurbished intercontinental ballistic missiles for their further use as launch vehicles.

Work place

Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company

Elon Musk

David Sacks

USA

Investor, producer, co-founder

Pro-Russian statements

In April 2022, he claimed that the US could have prevented the russian invasion by providing russia with public guarantees that Ukraine would not join NATO. At the same time, he insisted that the US should do everything to support a peace agreement between Ukraine and the russian federation, which would include the neutrality of Ukraine, recognition of the annexation of Crimea by russia, "which has been a fait accompli since 2014 and which is supported by the vast majority of people who live there", as well as "some form of independence for the russian-speaking areas in the Donbas, Donetsk and Luhansk, which would bring an end to the bloody civil war that has been raging there." In October 2022, he proposed his plan to end the war in Ukraine, which included "an armistice based on Feb 23rd lines, along with a guarantee that Ukraine won’t become part of NATO." At the same time, he noted in the comment that if the russian federation rejects, the war should continue until until February 23, 2022 lines reached, and if Ukraine wants to return its other territories as well, "they’re free to do so as a sovereign country, but without US weapons and support." In February 2023, he accused Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland of "ginned up" the conflict by "backing an insurrection in Ukraine in 2014", bringing in "these Ukrainian far-right nationalists as the muscle" and generally accusing the State Department of "backing this insurrection of a democratically elected leader in 2014." He also said: "If you are wondering why Putin seized Crimea, it was in direct retaliation for the coup that we backed in 2014."

Work place

Craft Ventures

Foreign propagandists of the Russian Federation regime

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Viktor Mihály Orbán

Pro-Russian statements

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Silvio Berlusconi

Pro-Russian statements

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David Pugliese

Pro-Russian statements

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Mirjana Spoljaric Egger

Pro-Russian statements

Relations with the Russian Federation

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Agnès Callamard

Pro-Russian statements

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Cristiano Alves de Lima

Pro-Russian statements

Relations with the Russian Federation

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Martin Aagård

Pro-Russian statements

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Peter Maurer

Pro-Russian statements

Relations with the Russian Federation

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Elon Musk

Pro-Russian statements

Relations with the Russian Federation

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David Sacks

Pro-Russian statements

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