"The Kremlin regime is constantly increasing its budget for propaganda and for creating war fakes about the war in Ukraine. Journalists from Meduza, IStories, and The Bell have conducted an investigation into a Russian autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) that creates fakes about the war. ANO Dialog, which is run by Kiriyenko, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, will receive $93 million.
What is ANO Dialog? ANO Dialog is an autonomous non-profit organization that was created as a tool to promote voting for amendments to the Russian Constitution in the summer of 2020. Officially, the entity had two tasks: supervising government websites, starting from official pages to kindergarten accounts, and collecting complaints on social networks.
With the start of the full-scale invasion, ANO Dialog employees began analyzing social media reactions to war-related news hooks and later creating fakes."Ukrainians are given pills that increase aggression," "The Ukrainian armed forces sell their awards on eBay," "German Muslims call to expel Ukrainian refugees from Germany," - these and similar fake news are written by 60 people in the Dialog's Moscow office and distributed to their own and friendly publics, allegedly on behalf of their subscribers.Contractors include so-called "military correspondents", Solovyev's channels, and War on Fakes.
Employees of the Telegram channels Readovka and Mash visited the office for meetings. ANO Dialog is engaged in information support of the Russian Ministry of Defense.The organization is headed by Vladimir Tabak. He is said to be a close associate of the First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Kirienko."