"Soft Power" of the Kremlin: Millions Wasted and Failure in Azerbaijan

This week, investigative journalists from The Insider project published, or rather leaked to the media, rather curious facts about the work of Russian special services operating under the cover of various humanitarian programs with outwardly "beautiful" names.

This is stated in the new issue of the Caliber.Az YouTube channel.

"Before getting to the point, let's briefly note that the phenomenon of so-called journalistic investigation in most cases represents something like an iceberg, where only the visible part, that is, the tip, has some relation to the profession of a journalist. And what is hidden beneath the surface and includes mainly the collection of information, especially of a sensitive nature, is practically impossible to carry out by the efforts of journalists alone without the participation of specialists of a different profile, let's say, not too visible in society, but present behind the back of almost each of us.

Information collected by workers of this invisible part of the iceberg is carefully filtered, analyzed, and then passed on to journalists, whose task, in turn, is to complete the work done with its final link: to format the obtained factual raw material into ready-made textual or audiovisual content and present it to the public as if it were the result of their own investigation. These techniques were used in relation to, or rather, against our state," the material says.

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