The Real Russia Report
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NEW CITIZENS PODCAST SERIES TO EXPOSE TRUTH BEHIND RUSSIA REPORT COVER-UP
Why has the government refused to investigate Russian interference in our democracy? We plan to tell the story of how the Kremlin captured the British establishment. But we need your help to do it.
This is the story of a cover-up. One that goes to the highest levels of the British state. Beginning with the testimony of a whistleblower from within the Conservative party and featuring a cast of key players and expert witnesses, we plan to tell the story of how the Kremlin captured entire swathes of the British establishment, how a Russian spy was able to infiltrate the highest echelons of government, how the authorities turned a blind eye, and how successive Conservative governments covered it up.
Featuring Carole Cadwalladr, the Guardian journalist and Pulitzer finalist, and with contributions from leading experts including former head of M16’s Russia desk Christopher Steele, journalist Luke Harding and former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Dominic Grieve, this will be a landmark investigative podcast series that exposes how fragile our democracy is and what needs to be done to protect it.
Why we need this podcast series
We have been campaigning for more than two years for a full investigation into the findings of the Russia Report. In August 2020 we joined forces with a cross-party group of MPs and peers to bring a legal action against the government for its failure to protect our democratic integrity. Our next step is to bring together for the first time all of the different threads of this story in a compelling podcast series and examine close-up the issue which our security services have identified as the single biggest threat to our national security. With your help, we think we can do it.
Your donations will pay for equipment, researchers, editing, audio-technicians and the expensive legal protections we need to ask the questions others won’t. We are offering the following perks:
The Citizens is a non-profit organisation which is funded through grants from Ford Foundation, Luminate, Open Society Foundations and via public donations from our supporters. Carole Cadwalladr works as an unpaid editor-at-large. Read more about us at https://the-citizens.com/about-us/
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Colin Reed
Our institutions need overhaul. Before that can happen, the positions of power must be occupied by people of honesty, sincerity and decency. This is a good first step. #AllOutGreen for a corruption-free future.
David Roy | £52.32
Any chance of loaning Carole Cadwalladr to the US for a parallel program?
Philip Parry | £5.69
Jane Page
This investigation is hugely important and impacts us all. It needs exposing.
J | £26.41
Johnson's Government introduced voter IDs to supposedly improve the integrity of UK elections (despite acknowledging low levels of voter fraud), whilst also refusing to investigate the far greater threat of Russian Government interference in the same elections. Tory administrations over the last 13 years have worked in their own interests and not those of the UK public. I hope that your podcast can throw more light on this.
Oliver Dowding | £52.32
This is one of the most vital issues which the government repeatedly dodges. All power to Carole Cadwalladr and the team for gettting this far. If we don't see this through we will be condemned to ever more corruption of our electoral process.
Gwawr | £5
The truth will out - with help
Andy Nattrass | £26.41
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Richard Caddell | £52.18
Thanks for all your work on exposing this - Richard & Sasha
Jerome Morrow | £25
fantastic job
john whitehead | £5.69
Clifford Siegel
Kenneth Muir | £52.18
Thank you for the work you do in exposing these dangers to our country and the integrity of our democracy.
Alessandra | £5.69
Following you from Italy, because it's not only happening in the UK
Simon
Juliette Bunker | £5
This story needs telling.
David Rogers | £21.23
Look forward to hearing; very important this is out there and publicised.
Catherine | £10.64
Please support to save our democracy which is in tatters and under grave threat.
James and Dianne | £104.10
Ordinary people need to fund investigative journalism to hold the powerful to account.
Simon F Gee | £52.32
This podcast must be made and spread far and wide to wake up our sleeping electorate.
Simon and Cathie Orr | £10
Hopefully another brick in the downfall of this corrupt Conservative establishment.
Marcel Volker | £10.87
The truth will out, all the best!
Anonymous
Truth, transparency and accountability
Alison George | £52.18
The truth will out eventually but the harm done in the meantime is unquantifiable. Thank you for all you do to speak truth to power 🙏🏼
Joy | £10.87
Brilliant work you're doing here. Been following since 2017 despite family and friends thinking I was losing the plot. Good luck in your important endeavours.
Duncan Scott | £26.22
Lenore Simson | £26.41
We need the truth, our democracy and security have been compromised by Tories prepared to betray a nation for power and money.
Elin Gisladottir | £5.45
Sheila Ross | £21.23
Thank you - we need you too!