Sentences with word «kompromat»

The collection of kompromat on politicians and those in positions of authority was long practiced by the former KGB.

However, Trump Jr. later had to amend the statement after it emerged that he took the meeting after he was offered kompromat on Clinton as part of «Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump,» according to emails between himself and Rob Goldstone, the British music publicist who represented a Russian pop star who initially sought to arrange the meeting.

It also says Page met senior Russian official Igor Diveykin to talk kompromat on Clinton, and met with Igor Sechin to discussion financial payoffs to Page and others via the privatization of the Russian company Rosneft.

Perhaps the most famous technique nowadays is the collection of compromising material, known in transliterated Russian as komprometiriushii material — kompromat for short.

It is plausible Cambridge Analytica — itself apparently a propaganda outfit replete with messaging, creative services, and targeting capabilities in addition to black ops and an apparent knack for employing Ukrainian sex workers to secure damaging kompromat — closely tracked the Russian effort and considered how to leverage it on behalf of its client, Donald Trump.

Yet far more outrageous than the behaviour of specific individuals is the hypocrisy of a business that not only puts up with conflicts of interest but actively produces them — and finally instrumentalizes the results as kompromat.

Climategate is exactly like Russian kompromat.

I never paid attention to global warming until I noticed they were defaming the scientists with the same sort of kompromat tactics that the Russians used in their campaign to blame AIDS on the Pentagon scientists.

Aside from the promise of kompromat, the executives told their prospective clients that they knew exactly how voters were thinking because of their social media access.

The «Papadopoulos information» most likely refers to an interaction in May 2016 during which Papadopoulos is said to have boasted to a top Australian diplomat about Russia's «kompromat» on Clinton while he was drinking at a swanky London bar.

During that meeting, Papadopoulos boasted about Russia's «kompromat» on then - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton while drinking at a swanky London bar.

Although one could argue that Trump has broken so many rules that kompromat might have less of an effect on him.

In fact, President Putin's own trajectory to power may have received a powerful boost due to kompromat, when it was used in the late 1990s to destroy Russia's Chief Prosecutor, Yuri Skuratov, then preparing indictments against former President Boris Yeltin's circle.

Meanwhile, the kompromat campaign proceeded apace.

The newspaper said sources familiar with the campaign described how the company was looking to collect «kompromat» - compromising material or information - on opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari.

Anyone who interacts with the Internet leaves behind what the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson calls (with the infamous Trump dossier in mind) kompromat, «a collection of compromising materials.»

The sources — who spoke to the Observer over many months — said the company was looking for «kompromat» on Muhammadu Buhari — at the time, leader of the opposition.

He said there was a mission to find «kompromat» or «compromising material» on the president of Nigeria by hacking him.

Wylie added that «Aggregate IQ, which received 40 % of vote leave's funding, also worked on projects that involved hacked material and kompromat and distributing violent videos of people being bled to death to intimidate voters and this is the company that played an incredibly pivotal role in politics here.

The newspaper said sources familiar with the campaign described how the company was looking to collect «kompromat» - compromising material or information - on opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari.

That's distribution of kompromat and of incredibly threatening and violent video content which I've passed on to the committee.»

Meanwhile a Canadian company set up alongside Cambridge Analytica called AggregateIQ (AIQ) distributed compromising material — which Wylie referred to as «kompromat» — to influence the election.