NYT: Putin's Long War Against American Science

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The House, the Senate and the nation’s intelligence agencies have typically focused on election meddling in their examinations of Mr. Putin’s long campaign. But the repercussions are wider. An investigation by The New York Times — involving scores of interviews as well as a review of scholarly papers, news reports, and Russian documents, tweets and TV shows — found that Mr. Putin has spread misinformation on issues of personal health for more than a decade.

His agents have repeatedly planted and spread the idea that viral epidemics — including flu outbreaks, Ebola and now the coronavirus — were sown by American scientists. The disinformers have also sought to undermine faith in the safety of vaccines, a triumph of public health that Mr. Putin himself promotes at home.

Moscow’s aim, experts say, is to portray American officials as downplaying the health alarms and thus posing serious threats to public safety.

“It’s all about seeding lack of trust in government institutions,” Peter Pomerantsev, author of “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” a 2014 book on Kremlin disinformation, said in an interview

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

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3. Putin has been the most economically successful tyrant ever

He only sends troops into situations where they have local allies and weak opposition (Ukraine, Syria).

He uses loosely affiliated agents (the two killers in the UK, Anna Chapman, the people at the Trump meeting in 2016 in NYC, et al. in the USA) or cyber agencies (I.R.A. at Savushkina Street 55 in СПБ, Directorate 74455 of the GRU) to do his bidding or spread disinformation in places he dare not overtly interfere (Brexit vote, US elections).

Minimum cost and losses, maximum effectiveness. If he is ever removed from power by a coup in the Kremlin, he could make almost as much money opening up a consultancy advising on business efficiency and cost-cutting.

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