Oscar-winning director, Nixon adviser and former bodybuilder: Putin’s highest-paid propagandists
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- The article examines people close to Vladimir Putin who are paid to promote Russia’s presentation of its invasion of Ukraine.
- It identifies the group as including an Oscar-winning director, a Cannes award winner, a former bodybuilder and a former adviser to Richard Nixon.
War can be profitable. That is well understood by a network of people more or less closely connected to Vladimir Putin who help present Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the public.
Russia calls the invasion a “special military operation.” Among those involved in promoting the war, the article points to an Oscar-winning director, a Cannes award winner, a former bodybuilder and a former adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon.
The article asks which figures Russia pays from public funds to promote its war.
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Originally published by iDNES in Czech. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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