2015 December 26
[An] item of interest in last week’s Disinfo Review is the following, featuring Pepe Escobar, The Strategic Culture Foundation, and the hysterically named New World Order Opposition.
Source article by Escobar
strategic-culture[.]org: Home away from home for everyone’s favorite aging South American communist Pepe Escobar pic.twitter.com/TwtfNEJKZY
— aweisburd (@webradius) December 26, 2015
nwoo[.]org Propagating Kremlin disinfo in Czech pic.twitter.com/eIqdMiB0jP
— aweisburd (@webradius) December 26, 2015
Disinfo report(s)
Date
Lang/Target
Summary
Link
Disproof
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16.12.2015
CZE, ENG
Russia covers the Syrian Arab Army and prepares terrain for a setback of Ankara’s plans for a safe zone masked as a no-fly zone financed by the EU.
http://bit.ly/1S3UBn9 (nwoo.org) // http://bit.ly/1ITVmNs (strategic-culture.org)
No evidence for these claims and assumptions provided.
European Values Think-Tank
Escobar
This item is interesting for a number of reasons. Escobar, in addition to providing grist for the Kremlin disinfo mill, sits at the center of a number of social networks associated with information operations of Russia and Iran. Most recently Escobar has turned up in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as a hub in the network of Russia’s American recruit Russell Bentley, and the ground in Donbass with one of the Kremlin’s favorite Finnish tools Janus Putkonen.
strategic-culture.org
The Strategic Culture Foundation appears to be firmly rooted in Moscow, and closely aligns itself with the Centre for Research on Globalization in Canada, and with the Communist Party of China’s 4th Media operation. The domain was recently transferred to a Russian whois proxy service, but most likely remains in the hands of Andrej G. Areshev, lately of Moscow. The project leases a server provided by Saint-Petersburg, Russia, company FastVPS a/k/a FastVPS24. It is noteworthy that the server itself appears to reside in Estonia, on an IP address (5.101.113.66) assigned to Pavel Odintsov who is d/b/a fastvps.ee. Odintsov also appears to reside in Estonia.
nwoo.org
That this site makes the effort to promptly translate and post a Czech version of Escobar’s screed is perhaps the most interesting element. Beyond that, it is hosted in the Czech Republic on a dedicated IP address (81.2.216.102). The domain name has been held in turn by Vilhem Komodor and Josef Czechacek, and was registered in 2008, making it a rather old site in this context.
About the disinfo report
Information presented here was flagged as source of Kremlin disinformation by the EU’s East Stratcom Task Force/EU Mythbusters network (@EUvsDisinfo). The data provided here is based on open sources and is not otherwise associated with the EU, while the characterization of site content represents the individual reporting member of the EU Mythbusters network.
Whois record for strategic-culture.org, cached on 23 February 2015
Whois record for 5.101.113.66
Whois record for nwoo.org from 2012 on
Whois record for nwoo.org from 2008 till 2012
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