John Helmer — Radoslaw Sikorski, Anne Applebaum Conceal 2015 Income From Polish Parliament, Criminal Offence Investigation To Start

The lady that gets over a half a million dollars fro writing propaganda for US media.

The ex-Polish Foreign Minister and ex-Speaker of the Polish parliament, Radoslaw Sikorski, has failed to disclose his wife, Anne Applebaum’s (lead, right) income for 2015, in the annual disclosure required by Polish law for government officials and members of parliament. He has also failed to report his own income for several months of the year. Polish parliamentary staff say they are investigating before state prosecutors may be called in.

In 2014 Sikorski (pictured below) lost his job as Poland’s foreign minister after clandestine tape-recordings of restaurant conversations he had been having in Warsaw with other officials and Polish business figures revealed scatological opinions and an entirely different character from the one he and Applebaum had been declaring publicly. ““I’m honest”, Sikorski said. “I am not into plotting and don’t steal.” He left office on September 22, 2014.…

In 2014’s filing, Section IX, last line, Sikorski revealed that Applebaum had earned 1,719,699.33 Polish zlotys (PLN). That was equivalent at the time to US$434,000. For details, read this. In earlier years Sikorski has reported the Applebaum takings in US dollars and British pounds, the currencies in which she was employed and earned the money. In 2012, her total came to the equivalent of $542,000; in 2013, $800,000.

Not bad for writing hit pieces.

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Radoslaw Sikorski, Anne Applebaum Conceal 2015 Income From Polish Parliament, Criminal Offence Investigation To Start

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RT — Don’t agree with Legatum? You must be a ‘KGB’ agent!

Busting one of the "think tanks" that seeds Western media with propaganda. Tracing the thinking back to the NZ version of the Koch Bros, Christopher and Richard Chandler.

In his thorough Pando exposé [Mark Ames] wrote: “Legatum turns out to be a project of the most secretive billionaire vulture capital investor you’ve (and I’d) never heard of: Christopher Chandler, a New Zealander who, along with his billionaire brother Richard Chandler, ran one of the world’s most successful vulture capital funds—Sovereign Global/Sovereign Asset Management. That family of funds, based in the offshore haven of Monaco, operated until 2004, when the Chandler brothers, Richard and Chris, divided their billions into two separate funds. Brother Christopher Chandler took his billions to Dubai, where he launched Legatum Capital, and, in 2007, the Legatum Institute, where Peter Pomerantsev serves as a Senior Fellow.”

“The Chandler brothers were the largest foreign portfolio investors in Russia throughout the 1990s into the first half of the 2000s, including the largest foreign investors in natural gas behemoth Gazprom. The Chandler brothers reportedly were the single biggest foreign beneficiaries of one of the greatest privatization scams in history: Russia’s voucher program in the early 1990s, when each Russian citizen was given a voucher that represented a share in a state concern to be privatized … and most naive Russians were fooled or coerced into dumping their vouchers for next to nothing, snapped up by clever vulture capitalists and factory directors from the inside. Institutional Investor magazine described how the Chandlers benefited by snapping up Russians' vouchers and converting them into stakes in some of the largest and most lucrative companies in the world,” he explained.

The neoliberal "mafia" hellbent on bringing back the Yeltsin years of cowboy capitalism in Russia through regime change that installs a Western puppet.

Of course, for Legatum, Pando's Mark Ames is a Russian agent, along with Seumas Milne, now Jeremy Corbyn's press-secretary.

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John Helmer — Radoslaw Sikorski On Tape – Plot To Impose Russian Coal Ban For Oligarch’s Profit, Confiscate And Resell Gazprom Gas Too

Radoslaw Sikorski is better known in the US as Mr. Anne Applebaum.

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Radoslaw Sikorski On Tape – Plot To Impose Russian Coal Ban For Oligarch’s Profit, Confiscate And Resell Gazprom Gas Too

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John Helmer — Anne Applebaum Loses War Against Russia – Her Income Plummets Faster Than Ukraine’s GDP

Good news, but someone else will likely step up to fund her propagandizing. She's a sore loser, too.

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Anne Applebaum Loses War Against Russia – Her Income Plummets Faster Than Ukraine’s GDP

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John Helmer — So Long Siklebaum – Poland Under US Pressure Over Failure Of War Against Eastern Ukraine, Russia

Anne Applebaum and Victoria Nuland. Polish elections coming up.

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So Long Siklebaum – Poland Under US Pressure Over Failure Of War Against Eastern Ukraine, Russia

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John Helmer — Anne Applebaum Is Not A War Profiteer, But Her Husband Reveals That She Was Paid More Than $800,000 In 2013 – And That Was Before The Shooting Started In Ukraine

Anne Applebaum has been paid unaccountably large sums of money, according to official yearly income declarations by her husband, the ex-foreign minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski. According to the annual reports required of Polish Government officials and members of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, Applebaum received a US income of $20,000 in 2011. Two years later, in 2013, this had jumped to $565,000. 

Applebaum, who writes and lectures as an expert on Russia and Ukraine, did not earn the money from her US publishers, while Sikorski’s reports claim the money was unrelated to his activities as a foreign minister. The income was earned instead, he says, from “honoraria for books, articles and lectures”. According to Applebaum’s spokesman, she claims the right of privacy not to explain where the money came from, or why.

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Anne Applebaum Is Not A War Profiteer, But Her Husband Reveals That She Was Paid More Than $800,000 In 2013 – And That Was Before The Shooting Started In Ukraine

John Helmer

John Helmer is the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. He first set up his bureau in 1989, making him today the doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia.