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Trump official who "melted" office against Kremlin propaganda, married to niece of Russian oligarch linked to Putin

2025-06-03 15:56:00Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump official who "melted" office against Kremlin propaganda, married
Darren Beattie and his Russian wife Yulia Kirillova

A senior official who dismantled the US government's Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with ties to the Kremlin, The Telegraph newspaper has revealed.

Darren Beattie has caused alarm within the State Department since he was appointed in February for his ardent pro-Russian views.

He is known for his focus on dismantling the agency tasked with countering Kremlin propaganda.

Beattie, the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, is married to a woman whose uncle has held several roles in Russian politics and once received a personal “thank you” message from Vladimir Putin.

In the years before joining the government, Beattie made social media posts suggesting that Western institutions should be "infiltrated" by Putin, while attacking what he described as the "American global empire."

Donald Trump is under pressure from many in his party, particularly senators, to take a tougher stance on the Russian leader as he continues to refuse to sign a ceasefire agreement as the war in Ukraine continues, the Telegraph reports.

Many of Beattie's social media posts also concern China, repeatedly calling on the US to hand over Taiwan to Beijing and labelling Britain a "poor and pathetic kingdom" that would be "much better off under Chinese domination".

Beattie was a member of the first Trump administration, but after being fired in 2018 for alleged attendance at a white nationalist conference, he reinvented himself as an “alt-right” media figure. State Department sources expressed skepticism about whether he had undergone security clearance, a process that has been relaxed under Mr. Trump.

In May 2021, public records show that he married a Russian woman named Yulia Kirillova in a ceremony in Broward County, Florida.

Ms Kirillova, who according to her Facebook page was educated in Moscow before studying abroad in Canada and Washington DC, is the granddaughter of Sergei Chernikov, a Russian drinks tycoon who owns an apartment with her mother, Natalia.

Chernikov, whose net worth was estimated to be $150 million in 2005, reportedly received a letter of thanks from Putin for his help in the election campaign that first brought the Russian leader to power.

That same year, Chernikov made his first step into politics, taking a role in the ministry of natural resources, before becoming deputy governor of the Nenets region in Siberia.

From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the Civic Chamber of Russia, which was founded after a proposal by Putin and is supposedly intended to scrutinize the activities of the Russian government.

When the chamber was created, critics claimed it would be staffed by Kremlin allies and used to reduce a rival power base in the Russian State Duma.

Both before and after his marriage to Chernikov's niece, Beattie has repeatedly attacked what he called the "American global empire," while praising both Russia and China as counterweights to his "woke" ideology.

“The rise of non-woke (China) and anti-woke (Russia) geopolitical competitors to the American Globalist Empire is not a bad thing,” he wrote in October 2021.

He also said he could not wait for its "prestige and power" to collapse on the world stage and claimed that its "position (the US) in the global order [is] rapidly deteriorating."

Beattie and Revolver, the media outlet he founded after leaving the first Trump administration, argue that the US has been trying to stage “color revolutions” around the world, a common cliché in Russia and China to dismiss pro-democracy movements as Western-backed coup attempts.

He has claimed that the US is conducting “color revolutionary operations” in Ukraine, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Myanmar, and that an “American color revolution brigade” is pushing for an “eternal war in Ukraine.”

Two months before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said: "Imagine the complaints of the American Globalist Empire if Putin 'invades' Ukraine... I love it when our national security bureaucrats fail!"

He also praised Putin as “brave and strong” and claimed that the Russian leader had “done more to advance conservative positions in the US than any Republican.” He also declared: “NATO is a far greater threat to American freedom than Putin ever was.”

“The funny thing is that almost every Western institution would improve in quality if it were infiltrated and directly controlled by Putin,” he wrote in September 2021.

The Telegraph article


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