The Kremlin’s influence and disinformation in the Czech Presidential election

(February 1, 2018)
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According to a new report by “European Values” on the past Czech Presidential Elections, where Miloš Zeman was re-elected, a massive disinformation campaign was orchestrated by the pro-Zeman and pro-Kremlin disinformation community of several dozen disinformation-creating websites in order to demobilize voters who would have voted for the contender Jiří Drahoš. The de-facto Zeman campaign manager Martin Nejedlý, whose personal debt was paid off by the Moscow headquarters of Lukoil, orchestrated the campaign funding in a way that it is still not known who really provided the majority of campaign funding for President Zeman.

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