Last month, the Department of Justice filed charges against two employees of the Russian state-controlled outlet RT for conspiracy to violate US money laundering and foreign agent laws.
According to the indictment, Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva used a series of shell companies and fake personas to hide the fact that they were funding a far-right Tennessee-based production company to the tune of $8.7 million on top of $760,000 in signing bonuses.
The DOJ indictment has exposed a double crisis of democracy, writes Christopher Schaefer.