2023-12-30 16:09:29
Matthew Elliott was a founding member of the CFoR - this is different to being the founder. There can be many founding members of an organisation, each with potentially negligible influence. Meanwhile, Chris Bryant was the Chair of the APPG for Russia. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(23-3-27) Author
2023-12-30 16:42:27
Matthew Elliott was a founding member, but not the founder, of Conservative Friends of Russia, which later became the Westminster Russia Forum. CFoR and the WRF received support from the Russian Embassy. [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(22-4-13) Author
2023-12-30 18:09:41
NNN. Elliot was a founding member of the Conservative Friends of Russia Group, which received funding from the Russian Embassy. He has now been made a peer by Liz Truss and can have a role in the legislative process in the House of Lords. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(21-0-14) Author
2023-12-31 00:27:37
The Westminster Russia Forum originally launched as “Conservative Friends of Russia” in August 2012 in a time of relative peace between the West & Russia. That was before the Russian invasion of Crimea (20 February 2014) or the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine (21 November 2013). [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(13-4-21) Author
2024-01-01 08:23:32
NNN. The post is factual. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-0-1) Author