Reported Russian spending on its influence efforts in the U.S. skyrocketed during the years before its invasion of Ukraine last week, records show. How it happened ➡️
that its state-run media organs register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In 2014, FARA-registered firms representing Russian interests got less than $800,000 for that work, according to OpenSecrets data. By 2019, that number had increased 5,774%, to more than $45 million, before scaling back to $35 million last year. In 2016, Russia was just the 73rd-largest spender on U.S. foreign influence. It was the third-largest in 2019, 2020 and 2021.Those numbers only account for a portion of the country's influence efforts, which also include lobbying by Russian companies on ostensibly apolitical commercial matters.
A trio of U.S. firms, for instance, pulled in millions lobbying for the embattled Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. But that spending was reported through standard domestic disclosure channels, rather than FARA.
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