WikiLeaks Joins Forces With Billionaire Lebedev (to Leak Russian Material)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Bloomberg

WikiLeaks Joins Forces With Billionaire Lebedev


By Anastasia Ustinova and Ilya Arkhipov - Dec 22, 2010 12:18 PM ET

Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven’t been published yet and Novaya Gazeta will help make them public, the newspaper said on its website today.

“Assange said that Russians will soon find out a lot about their country and he wasn’t bluffing,” Novaya Gazeta said. “Our collaboration will expose corruption at the top tiers of political power. No one is protected from the truth.”

The weekly newspaper is known in an industry dominated by state-run companies for its critical reports of the Kremlin and investigative coverage of Russian affairs. Novaya Gazeta received unlimited access to the WikiLeaks database, which has a “wide range” of materials, including documents about Politkovskaya’s murder as well as information about Russian politicians’ ties to organized crime, Nadezhda Prusenkova, a Novaya Gazeta spokeswoman, said by phone from Moscow. The newspaper will start releasing materials next month.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-22/wikileaks-joins-forces-with-billionaire-lebedev-gorbachev.html

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1. And we bring bowl of fresh Polonium-210 soup to celebrate nt

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Great minds............

see my post below.

[Red1]

2. Gee

Can they release this information from under the Urals?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. They better watch out for exposure to Polonium-210........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

[groundloop]

5. Pissing of Russia would scare the hell out of me

Somebody's going to end up dead.

[MattSh]

11. Piss off the Military Industrial Complex...

And the same thing could happen. Russia owns no monopoly on shit like this.

[kgnu_fan]

6. kick

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.:thumbsup:

[drm604]

8. So now the Russian mob will be after them. n/t

[bemildred]

9. Just imagine, a wealthy media owner working against the government instead of sucking up to it. nt

[anamandujano]

10. "No one is protected from the truth.”

Just reading this sentence makes the heart beat faster and imparts feelings of euphoria.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Well, at least now the US will have plausible deniability if something happens to Assange

[stevenleser]

13. The US was never the biggest risk to Assange. Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia were more

upset at him than we were from the beginning of this second release.

[stevenleser]

14. The US was never the biggest risk to Assange. Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia were more

upset at him than we were from the beginning of this second release.

[sudopod]

15. You say that like you think it's a good thing nt