The Russian Federation Council’s Commission on Protecting State Sovereignty and Preventing Foreign Interference published its first major report on March 5. Much of the 83-page document is a digressive look at America’s history of meddling in various countries’ domestic affairs over the past half century. In their introduction, the commission members write that this study is an “objective analysis based on reliable data.” Meduza took a closer look at the report and found that a significant part of its data was taken from an article written by a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2016, with some additional excerpts copied from a book by the Stalinist pseudo-historian Igor Pykhalov, plus a bit lifted from Wikipedia.This episode of The Russia Guy asks and answers the following questions:*What did the Federation Council commission steal from?*How do we know the commission basically copy-pasted?*Why did the commission take from these sources?And don't forget to read Meduza's report on this report:https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/03/06/russia-s-senate-released-a-report-accusing-the-u-s-of-meddling-in-foreign-countries-its-sources-are-a-stalinist-pseudo-historian-wikipedia-and-an-american-postgraduate

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