At the end of May 2022, so it’s just over one month before falling Italian Government headed by Mario Draghi, Oleg KostyukovFirst secretary of the Russian embassy in Rome and Antonio CapuanoInternational relations adviser to league leader Matteo Salvini held a meeting. According to intelligence documents published by the Turin newspaper ‘La Stampa’, the Russian diplomat far-right politician if his political formation were “willing” to withdraw his ministers from a Ruler he supported after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine without cracks He had accepted the sanctions against Moscow. send a gun to the attacked Slavic country. The spread of the conversation caused a stir big scandal Before the possibility of Moscow playing a role at the end of the Draghi stage in the transalpine country. The controversy escalated when it was learned that the Russian official present at that meeting was the president’s son. Igor KostyukovHead of the Central Intelligence Agency, known as the military intelligence agency GRU.
“Italy “Russia is one of the biggest infiltrates in Europe,” the investigative journalist from the Prensa Ibérica group told El Periódico de Catalunya. Jacopo Lacoboni. windows where the parasite enters, and disinformation The Kremlin’s majority is numerous and includes both right and left parties, public and private media, and political leaders such as former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the ultra Matteo Salvini or the populist. Beppe GrilloThose who do not hide their proximity to Moscow. There are also historical reasons. “During the Cold War, Italy was the country with the most important communist party in the West,” a formation where “anti-American” sentiment was “very strong,” Iacoboni explains in detail.
Have Alessandro di BattistaThis year, as a speaker at Rototom Sunsplash, he took part in a well-known and controversial episode of possible Russian interference in the politics of the transalpine country. Book ‘Supernova’, written by Nicola Biodo And Marco Canestratireveals the secrets of populist formation 5 Star Movement. On its pages, a controversial statement referring to the referendum to change the Constitution proposed by the then centre-left prime minister is attributed to the former Grillista lawmaker. Matteo Renzi, -The proposal his party opposes- was voiced in the same parliamentary group offices in 2016: “How about getting help from the Russian ambassador in the campaign for the constitutional referendum? After we’ve done all this for them …”.
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In 2018, shared by the Government League far-right and populist 5 Star MovementAppointed as RAI director Marcello FoaA man considered close to Kremlin theses, who spent most of his professional career at ‘Il Giornale’, a newspaper of the Berlusconi family. His proximity to Moscow was so great that he even dared to go to the RT microphones at the time, Channel banned today To criticize the president’s decision in the EU Sergio Mattarella vetoing a Eurosceptic as Minister of Economy at the time.
media setBerlusconi’s television group invited commentators accused of spreading unconfirmed narratives about the Kremlin, and even Russian commentators close to the state led by Vladimir Putin. In 2022, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov published his first interview with a European media outlet after the start of the invasion, where he denied Russia’s responsibility for the Bucha massacre and insisted on the version that Ukraine was ruled by the Nazis. . When asked about the Hebrew president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, he drew a flood of criticism, saying that even Hitler “had Jewish blood.”
All these constant events motivated the Intelligence Committee of the Italian Parliament to launch an investigation to detail the extent of disinformation in the transalpine country.