Kremlin accused of honey-trap campaign against opposition - Telegraph - 0 views
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The Kremlin has been accused of sanctioning a Soviet-style dirty tricks campaign against opposition politicians using vintage KGB entrapment techniques of money, drugs and glamorous women.
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The allegations follow the release of a string of videos on the internet purporting to show an opposition politician, a political analyst, and the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine in compromising situations.
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Hidden cameras in police cars show the trio apparently offering to bribe their way out of traffic offences, while another video appears to show one of the three, Mikhail Fishman, the editor of Russian Newsweek, snorting cocaine in the company of a semi-naked glamour model.
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He said he grew suspicious when a girl offering to sleep with him offered him cocaine "to relax" minutes after she and a "girlfriend" had foisted a number of bizarre sex toys upon him.
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The editors-in-chief of a number of leading publications have come out in Mr Fishman's defence. They say they are concerned about "the organised campaign" against him and "the journalistic community as a whole."
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A politician, a political analyst and the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek have been, supposedly, framed by the Kremlin in order to discredit them. Videos of them in compromising positions have been distributed in the Internet: the web as a channel through which public opinion can be molded by totalitarian states. Political campaigns could "learn" a lot from the Kremlin's actions...