Suren Gazaryan, Russian environmentalist, publishes [1] [ru] the scan of the document that describes the strategy of discrediting local environmentalist organizations protesting against the development of the Tuapse [2] 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.
Russia: Online Effort to Discredit Environmentalists Exposed
· Written by Alexey Sidorenko
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