u.k. foreign office and apparently if you believe those documents the u.k. government has been funding an operation that essentially prompts opinion makers policymakers across europe really to push forward an anti russian narrative now their goal their cause how the outline it is quite noble they call it a complaint against russian misinformation but in reality this is more about generally countering russian influence german just all around the world really so apparently this has been going on since twenty fifteen and this operation is called integrity initiative now it's important to realize that this initiative is not confined just to europe for example or not not let alone the u.k. they have an ambition to go global with it and to engage the united states canada and really all across the atlantic now this is the map that we have here that showcases all the colossus there's the work through with now they have as you can see they have a cluster in spain in france and germany in italy all around europe that's where they put their basically so the work with o

u.k. foreign office through a london based and the u.k. government has allegedly been working with opinion makers all across europe to promote anti russian narratives an effective network is best achieved by forming in each european country a cluster of well informed people from the political military academic journalistic and think tanks fears who track and analyze examples of this information in their country and inform decision makers and other interested parties about what is happening clusters the key instrument of integrity initiative and a fairly powerful one as proven by the spanish cluster which has shown how the program gets things done back in twenty seventeen the u.k. seemed surprisingly concerned with events playing out in spain's catalonia and london's keenness to see russia's hand in that bid for independence from spain so step one get public opinion on your side it's simple really you can write up a study yourself this cluster produced a major study on russian influence in the catalan referendum process which was circulated

u.k. foreign office according to the leaked the u.k. has been funding an operation that prompted public opinion makers to promote anti russian narratives on social media or by planting planting stories in the press the british government has apparently been running those since twenty fifteen through proxy organizations it's called the operation integrity initiative now this initiative is not confined to just the u.k. you can see the map here for example it shows the already active cells if i may say so and they're really almost all across europe looks like a ground an expensive operation house is supposed to fight what what is so called russian descent from asia and it is that it's expansive it as in all major powerhouses of europe but the key to understanding this is who they work with they say it's policy makers opinion shapers and so on and so forth and they are formed into clusters according to the documents this network has a very concrete structure influences are divided into clusters based on the geography of their activities the

u.k. foreign office or at least it has been for the past two years before that its money came from private grants and in relation to the leaked documents specifically the group said that it's a matter of deep regret that they were stolen take a listen to what they had to say in more detail we've not yet had the chance to analyze all of the documents so you cannot say with confidence where the they were genuine who whether they include door to door false material there it is clear that much of the material is dated and was never used so you can see the group distancing itself from the leak don't commence that they're saying they're not sure if they're genuine they haven't had time to verify whether they're all real and they also point out that a lot of the documents contain sensitive contact details some of people that they were actually considering getting in touch with but hadn't gotten touch with the now faced with the headache of contacting these people and explaining about this data breach even though they've had essentially nothing to do with the group so clearly not very happy about

u.k. foreign office now we haven't been able to independently verify those but their claim is that the u.k. has have bee has been funding an operation that has seen public you know public opinion makers using social media and planting stories in media outlets promoting anti russian narrative they are saying that this is basically countering the influence of russia on the global stage according to the papers published by anonymous a hack since this has been going on since twenty fifteen and apparently this has been run through proxy organizations like think tanks and what not they called this operation integrity the integrity initiative now important to understand that apparently this initiative was not confined just to the u.k. or even europe for that matter london had also even apparently has plans to do is establish similar operations all across the globe so. how does this operation then target this so called russian dissin from a should allow this whole operation it has a very strict structure it has very rigid structure so with these influences big public figures they are divided into

u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finished that tweet with the word unacceptable. and the prime minister is also taking a close interest and we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but for also for his family we are raising it with the ambassador for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but those links have been strained by the civilian casualties from the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and by concerns over a clampdow

u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally.

u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finished that tweet with the word unacceptable. and the prime minister is also taking a close interest and we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both from a few pages but for also for his family we are raising it with the m.r.c. all for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but those links have been strained by the civilian casualties from the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and by concerns over a clampdown

u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finished that tweet with the word unacceptable. and the prime minister is also taking a close interest and we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but for also for his family we are raising it with the international for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but those links have been strained by the civilian casualties from the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and by concerns over a clamp

u.k. foreign office is p.r. campaign and as we store saw in the statement that the group itself says that its sole purpose is to counter this information and given that tosk integrity initiative has said that it's inevitable that a lot of it a lot of its work touches upon russia where they allege a lot of dissent from ation comes from but just to give you an example of the sort of campaigns that they have they according to these documents have been responsible for the group so-called spanish cluster managed to avert the appointment of someone who was perceived to be a pro russian politician to an influential post as director of homeland security in spain and it all just took a few tweets they led to a few articles by some influential kind of. journalists in spain and bingo this politician didn't get the job and all of this is conducted under one. banner of sort of saving democratic institutions. ending this spread of disinclination and fighting the good fight. thanks for the update polly really interesting story

u.k. foreign office the foreign secretary jeremy hunt first issued a statement expressing his deep shock at the sentence issued on matthew hedges but he then followed it up with a post on social media which said the following matthew hedges news extremely worrying we have seen no evidence to back up the charges against him the f c o will do all we can to get him home and i will meet his wife daniella tomorrow thursday the u.a.e. claim to be a friend and ally of the u.k. so there will be serious diplomatic consequences and he finished that tweet with the word unacceptable. and the prime minister is also taking a close interest and we are of course as he is deeply disappointed and concerned today's verdict and i realize how difficult and distressing this is both for matthew hedges but for also for his family we are raising it with the ambassador for it is the highest level military procurement deals have long been a central plank of u.k. mideast diplomacy but those links have been strained by the civilian casualties from the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and by concerns over a clampdow

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