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:


    • £5: Your name on our contributors page
    • £25: An exclusive Putin / Boris Johnson digital-artwork & your name on our contributors page
    • £50: Virtual Q&A with Carole Cadwalladr and podcast contributors 
    • £250: VIP oligarch tour of London with Russian experts + vodka & blinis

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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Anonymous

Stephen Turner | £10.87

Anonymous

Expose them all!!!

Jean

Thank you for telling such an important story, again

Abdu | £26.22

We need this

Ceinwen McMillan

Paul | £10.64

Look forward to hearing this. Thanks for all the work you’re doing, which feels like the noblest patriotism to me.

Anonymous | £5.45

I'm sick of the corruption of this vile 'government'.

Philip

Julie | £26.22

Anonymous | £25

Kerry jones | £5

Fraser McMillan

Henry | £10.64

Love the work Carole. Keep it up.

Andrew Conway | £26.22

Terry shields | £26.41

Arthur Hunter | £26.22

This is absolutely required if we’re ever to lock the perpetrators up!

Anna-Rose | £5

kenneth Allinson

I don't want anything

Dale | £5.45

Nicholas Embling

Steven | £26.41

Congrats on winning the case Carole. Wonderful news for democracy and press freedom. Now get this investigation done, it is vitally important! Liar Johnson and his crooked cronies and assorted far-right scum like Farage have ruined Britain to gain power and money. It is easy to see how the evil Russian dictator would have been only too happy to fund the lunacy of Brexit and then Johnson's 'get brexit done' campaign since all this would (and has) critically weakened the UK and, in their eyes, the EU. As to the British culprits, serving a hostile nation for your own gain to the terrible detriment of your own nation sounds like one thing to me.

Anonymous

Patrick

Keep up the amazing work, our democracy needs you! ♥️

Calvin | £50

Let's fucking go!

Anonymous | £10.64

fingers crossed

Angela

Steve | £25

bernie | £26.41

We need to illuminate this dark and murky corner of UK politics.

Colin Whicman | £26.22

Happy to donate to old fashioned investigative journalism. Sadly we can no longer rely on the mainstream media. Even more sadly the BBC is under the control of people who owe their positions to Tory patronage. And of course that patronage comes at a price