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 ::I agree, this seems to be fair enough. Thank you for mediating this issue! The article still seems to be pretty much POV. But I do agree that funding by Michael Cherney undermines credibility of this ""Intelligence Summit"". He is usually regarded as a gangster in Russian press, and he was investigated by police of many countries (hence the visa refusals), although he was never officially indicted/charged or convicted, as far as I know. After looking at his name (I did not realized before he was that ""chyorny""; in Russian his name means ""black""), I am loosing any desire to edit here... "