Files Show BBC's "Independent" Russian Partner Begging UK Govt for Funds

BBC’s ‘Independent’ Russian Partner Begged UK Government for Funds, Files Show

By Kit Klarenberg and Wyatt Reed / The Grayzone Mediazona, the self-styled “independent” Russian outlet which partners with the BBC to track the deaths of Russian troops, requested hundreds of thousands of pounds directly from the British government, according to a tranche of leaked official documents. Having mainly targeted Russians since its founding in 2014…

Files show BBC's "independent" Russian partner begging UK govt for funds

Leaked documents show the supposedly self-reliant anti-Kremlin outlet Mediazona asked the UK gov't for £300,000. With foreign funding drying up, the "independent" news site now faces financial crisis. Mediazona, the self-styled "independent" Russian outlet which partners with the BBC to track the deaths of Russian troops, requested hundreds of thousands of pounds directly from the British government, according to a tranche of leaked official doc…

BBC’s ‘independent’ Russian partner begged UK govt for funds, files show - The Grayzone

Leaked documents show the supposedly self-reliant anti-Kremlin outlet Mediazona asked the UK gov’t for £300,000. With foreign funding drying up, the “independent” news site now faces financial crisis. Mediazona, the self-styled “independent” Russian outlet which partners with the BBC to track the deaths of Russian troops, requested hundreds of thousands of pounds directly from the British government, according to a tranche of leaked official doc…

Radio Free Europe will remain, Brussels would support it from an emergency fund - Sweden has previously donated twenty million kronor to the media outlet's activities.

Leaked documents show that the supposedly self-reliant anti-Kremlin publisher Mediazona asked the British government for £300,000. As foreign funding dries up, the “independent” news website faces financial crisis.Kit Klarenberg.Wyatt Reed.By Kit Klarenberg and Wyatt Reed.The Grayzone, May 24, 2025.Mediazona, the self-proclaimed “independent” Russian publisher that is working with the BBC to track Russian troop casualties, asked for hundreds of …

One wondered how the usual beneficiaries of USAID and other good American works after the scissors of Elon Musk were going to survive: this is what happened to a dissident group of media anti-kremlin Mediazona founded by the Pussy Riot who found another British sponsor. We are reassured for our own French beneficiaries: it seems indeed that the countries of NATO, as now the German chancellor refers to the "great coalisés" who have joined togethe…