Navalny American agent or not. Correspondence published: Navalny turned out to be a secret agent of the West. Konstantin Kalachev, head of the "Political Expert Group"

A real sensation fell into the hands ofjournalists VGTRK: correspondence between the famous “anti-corruption fighter” andBritish citizen known in connection with the Magnitsky caseWilliam Browder.

It was Browder who actively pushed for the creation of, in fact, the first “personal sanctions” against Russian civil servants and officials -.

The fact that the Briton is bluffing and openly waging an information war against Russia has been clear for a long time. The reasons are also known. First of all, this is, of course, money obtained not exactly in an honest way.

The second is Browder’s connections with British and American intelligence agencies. In this, everything is very similar to Navalny’s story: the active struggle “for everything good against everything bad” covers up a lot of unscrupulous and frankly illegal things.

The fact that Browder orders media attacks and stuffing on Navalny has also long been no secret. The latest case is the “sensational revelations” of Yuri Chaika. Then, by the way, many did not believe the Prosecutor General himself when he named Browder as the customer of the media stuffing against himself. However, this turned out to be true. And the main “media killer” for Chaika was Navalny, together with his Foundation.

And now new details have emerged about the secret and criminal connection between Navalny and Browder. Somewhat striking even to those who are aware of Navalny’s “business” and the peculiarities of the biography of the swindler Browder.

The latter repeatedly entrusted Navalny with various tasks. And he understood them correctly. Naturally, not for free. In addition, there is information about Navalny’s connection with foreign “specialists”, with whom Browder is also connected. The materials ended up in Moscow and were made public thanks to the armed coup in Ukraine and the former head of the Security Council of Boris Berezovsky, Sergei Sokolov.

“It was a place for unafraid idiots, excuse the expression, where it was possible to place mail servers,” he says about Ukraine. “It was recommended by the CIA curators who led the project. We removed about 60 servers on which a huge amount of correspondence and documents were collected. And There is absolute evidence of their connection and their activities, that no matter what Navalny says now, no matter what Browder says now.”

The documents include reports from the CIA and British intelligence MI6. Including, for example, the following: “December 23, 2007. To the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service A. Belt. Report from Agent Solomon on the completion of the study of Navalny and assignment of the pseudonym Freedom to him. A conversation took place over an encrypted communication channel between an employee of the SRS (SIS) and Agent Solomon ". The agent has received consent to confidential cooperation with Alexei Navalny. Navalny needs to organize financial support to carry out his tasks as part of the special operation "Tremors" to undermine the current constitutional order in the Russian Federation. Navalny has been given the pseudonym Freedom."

Agent Solomon is . Judging by reports, he received his pseudonym for intelligence work even before moving to Moscow. And Operation Tremors, to which our heroes were involved, was developed in Langley back in 1986. The documents, classified “top secret,” were signed by then-CIA Director William Casey. The main goal is “to change the constitutional and political system in Eastern Europe and the USSR.”

The tasks described in detail within the document are as follows: changes in the political and constitutional system of states, achieving control over financial flows and extracting assets from the economies of developing countries. Although the USSR ceased to exist a quarter of a century ago, Operation Tremors was not curtailed—obviously, not all assets have yet been recovered even from the countries of the former socialist camp. Not to mention the territory of the current Russian Federation.

“Browder spreads lies, and his entire company is based solely on lies. Navalny is his student and the successor of all his ideas. They partly work together, work in parallel. They are completely looking in the same direction,” a former investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate expresses his opinion Moscow Pavel Karpov. He was one of the investigators who uncovered Browder’s financial scams: tax evasion schemes and illegal purchases of shares in Russia under the roof of the Hermitage Capital fund. Karpov knows the handwriting of his friends and accomplices well.

Here is another interesting document, dated February 2006. Under the nicknames Will Prince-1 and Free-Diem - William Browder and Alexei Navalny, these are their first contacts. Browder has been banned from entering Russia for more than a year. Navalny is a young activist in the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party. Browder persuades Navalny to engage in financial blackmail.

“Let me formulate very frankly what I want to offer. I will teach you to “hold the monsters of the Russian economy by the balls.” Soon you will become a hero of minority shareholders and will be able to make reputational capital for yourself. Perhaps even political capital. In return, I will ask you to support me when my the problems will come out. Am I making myself clear?" - Browder asks Navalny. In fact, this is where Navalny was “born” as a media figure. The one we all know today.

Alexei, however, at that time still had doubts: “Your information is in exchange for my potential loyalty. Nevertheless, I am afraid that you are betting on the wrong figure. I may even have problems in the party. There I seem to be a nationalist.”

To this, Browder says that nationalism can also be a good “investment.” And in fact, Navalny later “worked on” the topic of migrants more than once in order to “knock out” the information capital on it. However, when it came to Crimea, he just as easily discarded his “nationalism”: it was unprofitable.

Next, Browder invites Navalny to conduct an “investigation” into fraud at VTB. But he, of course, is not ready to do anything for free: “William, thank you for the advice. But in order to take full advantage of it, I, as you understand, lack something.” There will be no problems with money, Browder promises: “A gentleman named Ashurkov will contact you.” Later, Ashurkov, Navalny’s “colleague” in FBK, will claim that he began to help Navalny after reading entries on his blog.

And here is the money itself: “Agent Freedom was familiarized with the first stage of secret measures to expose the facts of corruption and theft of Russian state assets. To implement the first phase of the plan, Agent Freedom was allocated funding in the amount of 100 million rubles. The first part of the funds in the amount of 7 million rubles will be transferred to our authorized representative from the Moscow Helsinki Group by January 26. Agent A. Belt."

By this time, things were going very badly for Browder in Russia: Hermitage Capital had completely curtailed its work in our country, all the main employees had left for London, the case of tax evasion was gaining momentum - only the auditor Magnitsky was left to “clean up the tails.”

“He was an accountant who was involved in tax evasion for Browder, that is, he registered companies through which money was withdrawn. As Magnitsky himself told me, it was his immediate boss who took away billions; as I later found out, it was Mr. Browder,” the journalist recalls Oleg Lurie.

“Alexey, now I need your support. Sergei was arrested. It will be very difficult for him,” Browder writes to Navalny during this period.

“William, I sincerely sympathize. In our country we love those who suffer. I’m not saying that Sergei’s suffering is your trump card, but the more journalists and people know about suffering, the less they will think about the essence of what is happening,” he replies Navalny.

Then many tears will be shed publicly about Magnitsky: cynically taking advantage of a problem or tragedy and spinning media hysteria around it is the favorite tactic of our opposition in general and Navalny in particular. Recent examples include the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

However, with Magnitsky it turned out even worse: “There will be no further increase in public outcry if we do not make adjustments to the plans for our special events.” In his message, the agent, based on the information he had, noted the deterioration of Magnitsky’s health.

The agent was asked, through proxies in the Russian penitentiary system, to organize the termination of any medical assistance to Magnitsky." So, it turns out that Sergei was simply killed in order to use his name in the information war "with greater efficiency." November 16, 2009, auditor Sergei Magnitsky died in the hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center.

What happens next is known. Media hysteria, “the fight against the criminal regime,” “the Magnitsky list” - and at the center of all this dirty information scandal is Alexei Navalny.

"January 23, 2010. Sash reports a meeting with agent Fried, during which he gave the agent 300 thousand US dollars for the upcoming program to support the "Magnitsky list" on social networks. Also in the report of the Sash agent it is said that the project related to the death of Sergei Magnitsky, already at the initial stage, greatly undermined the trust of Russian citizens in the judicial and law enforcement system of Russia. This leads to increasing chaos in the Russian judicial and law enforcement system, a decrease in its authority and a decrease in the authority of Vladimir Putin. Agent A. Belt."

The documents also contain information about the operation of Browder and Navalny against Prosecutor General Chaika. “Please note that before this there were searches in Browder’s companies in Cyprus, in offshore companies. That is, it was pressure. Immediately it comes out, information from Navalny immediately comes out, which, as it turned out, is not based on anything, it was originally not about what,” notes Oleg Lurie. Well, alas, the operation can be considered effective: Browder managed to prevent Browder from reaching the offshore sites of Russian law enforcement agencies.

And now we remember that not so long ago, LifeNews investigative journalists published a sensational video of another meeting of the former adviser to the governor of Vyatka Alexei Navalny with “experts” in velvet and not so velvet revolutions and coups.

Also, as Politonline already reported. ru, back in 2014, NTV showed on federal air and published on the Internet video and audio recordings that appeared on it, showing how and why blogger-politician Alexei Navalny met with foreign sponsors, begged for money and joked about his trips to the CIA.

Social networks then immediately remembered the details of the correspondence “leaked” into the network, in which Navalny shared with Yashin that he “needs contacts at the CIA.” In addition, bloggers remembered that at a special course at Yale, Navalny studied with activists who later “noted themselves” in coordinating the “Arab Spring.” Navalny was also “caught” by the media after reports at Chattam House and other “special events”...

And finally, I would like to remind you that it was and only for Navalny’s trial in Kirov, as well as for the elections with his participation in Kostroma that “political officers” from the US Embassy came. Among them are the first secretary of the American embassy in Moscow, a staff member of the US State Department, Bradford Bell, as well as diplomats from EU countries.

In a word, the true price and essence of the “fight for truth” from Navalny and Browder becomes even more obvious after these documents: betrayal of the Motherland, dirty money, lies, media scandals - and even indirect participation in murder.

This is the true face of our “honest fighters against the regime.” This is the background of the “Magnitsky list,” whose participants have been repeatedly called the most terrible words and accused of the most terrible things.

I would now like to ask everyone who said this, who participated in the promotion of media fakes - who can be considered, in connection with all of the above?

State Duma deputy Evgeny Fedorov said in an interview with FAN that State Department agent Stephen Sexton, who oversaw the actions of Alexei Navalny, set himself up by arriving at the headquarters of the so-called “FBK”.

The day before, the Federal News Agency presented the second film, “Anatomy of a Protest,” dedicated to unauthorized protests in Moscow. The investigation provides evidence that the rallies of the so-called “opposition” had a surprisingly clearly structured structure.

Thus, the “oppositionists” can already be divided into four groups. In the first - those who are associated with the “Open Russia”, recognized as undesirable in our country, by the fugitive oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as well as with many of its branches. The second is the so-called “FBK” of blogger Alexei Navalny, whose structure, by the way, is similar to “Open Russia”. The third is opposition media, which supports the first two groups, and the fourth is opposition deputies from parties located in the State Duma or the government.

All of them are connected by foreign funding, which is tied to the States. Khodorkovsky's funds come from Orion Strategies LLC, which is owned by George Soros. Navalny receives them from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED - an organization recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation), and this fund is financed by the Federal Agency USAID. They are “fed” by American foundations and some Russian media: for example, Novaya Gazeta lives on money from the Soros Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (it is controlled by the State Department), and the Dozhd TV channel comes from the American government’s US Agency for Global Media ".

In addition, the authors of the film are confident that the foreign intervention was supervised by US State Department agent Stephen Sexton. FAN reports that in July, the headquarters of blogger Alexei Navalny began urgently recruiting third-party consultants who were supposed to help oppositionists conduct street actions and media projects. In a conversation with a FAN correspondent, Alexander, a consultant who collaborated with the Navalny Foundation, revealed details of his work for the structure. In the conversation, he also remembered a certain consultant from the US Embassy.

Alexander explained that the foundation said that certain “employees of the American consulate” were working with them. They then disappeared somewhere, the consultant recalled. It turned out that one of these employees was Stephen Sexton.

From Alexander’s story it is clear that Sexton came to Navalny’s headquarters in Moscow when Navalny himself was under administrative arrest for 30 days. He told headquarters employees how to behave at illegal rallies and during arrest.

Note that Sexton is mentioned on the website of the US Embassy in Moscow, where he appears as the head of the security service. True, there is no more information about him in open sources. His photo is not even on the embassy’s Twitter, and he himself is not on social networks. It also cannot be found on the websites of US government agencies.

But his person is well known to the Russian special services. According to operational information, he is an employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency and coordinates the actions of provocateurs at rallies.

And these data are very similar to the truth, since “Mama’s revolutionary” Navalny himself would not have been able to single-handedly teach naive simpletons how to resist law enforcement officers during rallies. But with the help of an experienced American specialist, who had already led the organization of street riots more than once, he could.

State Duma Deputy Evgeny Fedorov, in an interview with FAN, noted that the work of each American embassy is similar to the work of the US State Department itself in any country, its structure and departments, financing, personnel schedule. This can be compared with the work of the British Colonial Office in the distant past.

It turns out that US consulates and embassies monitor the territories entrusted to them. In these representative offices, according to the parliamentarian, “there are departments responsible for the fifth column of the street type.”

FAN's interlocutor also explained why Sexton came to the headquarters of blogger Navalny. According to him, the FBK offices are a structural division of the so-called “opposition”, which receives funding from abroad. Each headquarters receives a huge amount of money that must be monitored and ultimately accounted for.

At the same time, Sexton made a serious mistake when he decided to personally visit Navalny’s central headquarters, FAN’s interlocutor believes.

“By visiting the headquarters, Sexton made a big mistake; he should have sent his assistant,” the parliamentarian emphasized.

To what extent will this complicate the activities of the Anti-Corruption Fund and its perception in society?

After searches in the branches of the Anti-Corruption Foundation in a money laundering case, the Ministry of Justice recognized him as a foreign agent. This may significantly complicate reporting for the organization, but is unlikely to harm the image of FBK, experts say

Alexey Navalny (Photo: Zuma / TASS)

How the Ministry of Justice motivated the recognition of FBK as a foreign agent

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included the non-profit organization Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent. The Ministry's Main Directorate for Moscow, as part of the “current monitoring” of the work of the FBK, discovered that it “corresponds to the characteristics of an NPO performing the functions of a foreign agent,” follows from the official statement of the department.

“The conduct of political activities has been established, as well as the receipt of funds from foreign sources: from foreign organizations in Spain and the United States,” the ministry said. As the acting clarified to Interfax. Department for NGO Affairs Vladimir Titov, the foundation “tried to influence government bodies and organized rallies with foreign funding.” According to the Ministry of Justice, the fund received two tranches from Spain and one from the United States for a total amount of more than 140 thousand rubles.

As on the website of the Ministry of Justice, foreign sources of funding for FBK were Roberto Fabio Monda Cardenas from Spain and Star-Doors.сom from the USA. Star-Doors.com is a closet door store in Florida. An employee of the company told Meduza that the owner of Star-Doors.сom is a Russian citizen, he donated money to FBK as a private individual.

FBK Director Ivan Zhdanov on Twitter emphasized that the organization receives money exclusively from Russians and “the fund has never received any foreign funding.” He called the inclusion of FBK in the register of foreign agents another attempt by the authorities to “strangle” the fund, whose activities are transparent, and reports on them are regularly submitted to the Ministry of Justice. “We demand that the Ministry of Justice publicly explain to everyone and provide evidence that FBK received at least one penny of foreign money,” wrote Alexey Navalny. “The actions are completely illegal and, obviously, on the direct orders of Putin.” Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin does not make such decisions, this is the prerogative of the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice has not yet sent an official notification, press secretary of Alexei Navalny and FBK Kira Yarmysh told RBC.

FBK was registered by Navalny in September 2011. According to the foundation's public reporting, it is funded by donations. In 2018, FBK received 58 million rubles from supporters, the fund’s expenses amounted to 65.3 million rubles. The average donation amount was 720 rubles, the fund reported more than 16 thousand donors in 2018.

In mid-September, FBK employees were searched in 31 Russian cities. Investigative actions began after a case was opened about the organization laundering 1 billion rubles. in 2016-2018. This case was brought against the fund's managers by the Investigative Committee in early August. During the summer, FBK actively participated in protest events dedicated to the exclusion of opposition candidates from the Moscow City Duma elections, including fund director Ivan Zhdanov and FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol (the city election commission was not satisfied with the quality of the signatures they collected).

What does the new status mean for the fund?

The Law on NPOs - Foreign Agents was adopted in 2012. Since 2014, organizations engaged in political activities and receiving funding from abroad are forcibly included in the relevant register of the Ministry of Justice. Human rights activists criticized the provisions of the law on NGOs-foreign agents for vague formulations, under which political activity was recognized, for example, the work of sociologists () or patients with diabetes. In November 2018, a law was adopted that allows media outlets receiving funding from abroad to be recognized as foreign agents.

In fact, the law sets one exclusively “technical” restriction - the organization must reflect in its materials that it performs the functions of a foreign agent, lawyer for the Amulex National Legal Service Dmitry Tomko explained to RBC.

In addition, an NPO - a foreign agent must submit a report every six months on its activities, on the personal composition of its governing bodies, quarterly - documents on the purposes of spending funds, including from foreign sources, and annually - an audit report.

For the absence of markings on the materials of the NPO indicating its status as a foreign agent, in accordance with Art. 19.34 of the Administrative Code, officials are fined up to 300 thousand rubles, legal entities - up to 500 thousand rubles. According to the law on NGOs-foreign agents, evasion from submitting documents necessary for inclusion of an organization in the register is punishable by a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles. or up to two years of imprisonment.

In practice, the reporting process for NPOs included on the list is greatly complicated, Vasily Vaisenberg, an expert at the human rights organization Golos, which is also a foreign agent, told RBC. For FBK, which collects millions in small donations of 500-700 rubles, this is a huge amount of work; the fund will need a serious staff of accountants to submit such a volume of reporting.

The head of the legal department of the Sitting Rus' Foundation, Alexey Fedyarov, believes that at FBK the work of the accounting department is done professionally enough to submit the necessary reports on time. According to Fedyarov, the new status will not harm the image of the foundation, “since due to the widespread recognition of human rights organizations as foreign agents in recent years, it becomes “uncomme il faut” for NGOs not to bear this status.” He cites the example of Sitting Rus', which, despite receiving such status, still actively contacts officials at different levels.

Another provision in the federal election law prohibits foreigners and foreign NGOs from participating in elections, but due to vague wording, this provision was not applied in practice, Weissenberg noted.

Will the decision of the Ministry of Justice affect the reputation of FBK?

FBK was declared a foreign agent because, against the backdrop of declining ratings and the erosion of the “Crimean consensus,” the authorities stopped perceiving the fund as a purely marginal opposition force, says political scientist Alexei Makarkin. According to him, if in 2014 a liberal candidate, accused by the authorities of working for the West and not recognizing the annexation of Crimea, would have had no chance in the elections, then due to the difficult economic situation of recent years, raising the retirement age and other unpopular reforms, the attitude towards oppositionists became different.

At the same time, according to Makarkin, if in the capital the status of a foreign agent is perceived by opposition supporters and undecided voters with sarcasm, then in the regions the decision of the Ministry of Justice may complicate the work of the FBK. There, local officials and security forces will perceive the fund’s employees as “spies,” the expert predicts.

After the summer protests in Moscow, a number of private and government entities filed lawsuits against their participants and alleged organizers. At the end of September, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanded compensation for “damage caused in connection with the involvement of forces and means to ensure public order as a result of uncoordinated mass events” on July 27 and August 3. For two claims, a total of 18 million rubles. The defendants were Alexey Navalny, Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol and others.

Prior to this, Mosgortrans, the Moscow Metro and the State Budgetary Institution Automobile Roads also filed claims against the organizers of the protests. The court satisfied these three claims, collecting more than 4.6 million rubles from the oppositionists. Due to the uncoordinated action on July 27, a lawsuit was also filed by Ankor LLC (Armenia restaurant), which managed to win about 240 thousand rubles.