WikiLeaks: Syrian dossier on Russian officials

The WikiLeaks project has begun publishing 2 million letters from the Syrian Dossier , including correspondence from members of the ruling Baath Party, the administration of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian ministries and foreign companies. All letters were written between August 2006 and March 2012 and sent from more than 680 domains, including the mail of the presidential administration and the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the resource claims. The letters are written in several languages, including 400 thousand in Arabic and 68 thousand in Russian.

“The Russian part is quite voluminous, but, unfortunately, I have not yet had time to familiarize myself with it,” WikiLeaks representative Kristin Hrafnson told PublicPost. “The number of documents is so large that it makes it difficult to work with them.” The Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, the newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, the German broadcasting company ARD, the Associated Press news agency and others will take part in the publication of the dossier. “This is not a final list - we are ready to cooperate,” said Hrafnson. “At the moment, however, I am not aware of any Russian media that is ready to participate in the project.” The editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter magazine, which previously collaborated with WikiLeaks, Vitaly Leibin confirmed to PublicPost that negotiations are underway and that the magazine intends to continue publishing revealing materials - “of course, after review.”

“This data is revealing for Syria, but it is also revealing for its opponents,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange commented on the documents. “And it helps us not so much to criticize one side or another, but to understand their interests, actions and motives. Only through understanding the conflict can we We can resolve it." “The Syrian dossier sheds light on the structure of the Syrian government and economy, but it also exposes the West and Western companies who say one thing and do another,” Assange said.

However, the first batch of documents, published on July 5, is rather disappointing. Correspondence between the Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica, the Greek group Intracom Telecom and the Syrian government company Syrian Wireless Organization sheds light only on a fairly well-known fact - the purchase by the Syrians of technology and equipment to create a national wireless network in Syria for emergency government communications, which none of the actors has ever hidden.