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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John Bridson
This is extremely important work. We need clear sight of how the Tories have enabled Putin's Russia to infiltrate and undermine our democracy
Siobhan | £52.17
Thank you for your bravery and tenacity. Keep going and good luck
david | £5.69
Janet | £26.41
Please keep going with this. It’s way overdue.
Simon James | £26.41
Looking forward to hearing this, though wishing it had all never happened.
Jeremy | £5.69
Keep it up
h clayton waddell jr | £31.59
Please Hurry up-thank you very much!!
Hannah | £26.41
Thank you and good luck. This is our country. 🇬🇧
Jane | £10.63
Thank you for doing what our MSM is failing to do! Good Luck
Justin | £26.21
Rodney Ballard | £26.41
John
Interesting, sad our tax payer funded institutions-SIS etc- and BBC are so coy about becoming involved. Isn’t that what they’re for?
Anonymous | £5.44
So important.
stephen
Michele Young
Looking forward to this, it's time the truth is uncovered on Russian interference in our democracy!
Stephen | £26.41
Accountability is essential to a functioning democracy
James | £26.41
Anonymous | £50
Roger | £26.41
Good luck!
gwen evans | £21.23
nick | £250
Shining a light on this is very important. Please keep going with this excellent work.
Lois Poole | £26.21
The amount is only shown in pounds, so I hope I can donate in US dollars
Steve | £5.69
Peter Bennett | £25
Good luck.
dorothy | £26.21
Thank you for your work. It’s urgently needed.
Jane | £26.21
Thank you so much for your work, I’m so glad you’re not letting this matter be swept under the carpet
Frank | £5.44
I wish you well in this venture; it is vitally important that a wider public become aware of what has happened and what is at stake for the UK
Tom Boddington | £10.63
Vivien Lichtenstein | £26.21
Mr A D | £26.41
Johnson spilled the beans when he felt the need to tell COP26 that the UK is not corrupt. He was compelled to deny it because he knows it is true. In a multi-party UK, first past the post disenfranchises most voters, the House of Lords is being stuffed with cronies, party hacks and donors, and the BBC acts like every other state broadcaster and protects the powerful. We may never see the Russian intelligence highlighting the vulnerability of the UK to Russian interference but I hope your work gets us closer to the truth.