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Russia has a long history of working to cultivate Western separatist groups. The group Yes California, for instance, set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow in December in partnership with far-right Russian nationalists who enjoy Kremlin support while promoting secessionist movements in Europe and the United States.
But the revelation that the Texas Nationalist Movement — whose executive director, Nathan Smith, traveled to Moscow in 2015 for a far-right conference attended by neo-Nazis and European fringe groups — was contacted to participate in widespread protests by a page Facebook believes to be linked to Russia marks a significant escalation in the Russians' efforts to influence the United States' political climate.
full: http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-facebook-group-ads-texas-secession-secede-trump-clinton-2017-9
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