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Hi and welcome back to Foreign Office. I'm Michael Weiss, Director of Special Investigations

for Russia Foundation and the Senior Correspondent at Yavin News. This week we are joined by Peca

Valyoniyemi. I think I've got that right. He is a postdoctoral researcher and

interactive technology. He is also the creator and curator of Botnik Soup, which is a running

digest of all the Kremlin's agents of influence, fellow travelers, useful idiots, whatever term of

art you choose to use. Peca is a longtime friend and associate, I suppose, in the information space,

I guess, about the war in Ukraine. It's great to have you on, my friend. Thank you. It's nice to be

here. A lot of people have taken an enormous interest in what you've done. We've had conversations

offline about your exposés on social media, various actors, some of them incredibly well-known.

I think you've done Donald Trump, you've done Elon Musk, you've done a host of internationally

famous public figures, and then others that are less well-known or, shall we say, terminally

online water carriers for the Russian government, particularly when it comes to the war in Ukraine.

Can you tell us a little bit about the genesis of Botnik Soup? What inspired you to go after

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