Russia: Online Effort to Discredit Environmentalists Exposed · Global Voices
Alexey Sidorenko

Suren Gazaryan, Russian environmentalist, publishes [ru] the scan of the document that describes the strategy of discrediting local environmentalist organizations protesting against the development of the Tuapse oil terminal. The “plan” includes prices for the paid posts in the blogs, forums, media outlets, as well as a list of possible bloggers involved. The overall budget of the campaign is 15,137 US dollars.