“They were never altruists.
If they are doing something, then they are striving for some kind of benefit, ”the RT interlocutor emphasized.
According to him, the United States sees the benefit in finding among journalists those who "accept their point of view, respond to their slogans, falling in unison with American propaganda."
“When such people are found, they must be supported, that is, they must be paid, one might say, a salary,” Olenchenko specified.
He added that there is also a possibility that the US has become disillusioned with the journalists who are working now.
“To put it figuratively, they want to throw fire into the furnace so that it burns brighter,” the analyst said.
Earlier it became known that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is ready to allocate up to $20 million for projects related to investigative journalism in a number of European countries and in the states of the former USSR.