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russia today & sputnik are two publications that are part of the russian state cointelpro program.

cointel means counter intelligence; pro means propaganda.

counter intelligence: doing things to screw up adversarial intelligence leads (this is not what those publications do)

propaganda: creating content to convince a target population of a specific idea, regardless of the legitimacy of that idea (this, however, is what those publications do *some of the time*)