For initiating pro-Russian resolutions in the parliaments of their countries, European deputies could receive from 20,000 euros, according to a joint investigation by "Important Stories", Eesti Ekspress, OCCRP, IRPI and Profil.

Investigators studied the leak from the mailbox of the State Duma staff member

Sargis Mirzakhanyan

, who coordinated work with European politicians.

Mirzakhanyan engaged in commissioned publications in Ukrainian and Russian media, hired bloggers, organized pro-Russian rallies, and also established relations with politicians of several European countries.

This was done, among other things, to promote the pro-Russian agenda in the parliaments of European countries.

In April 2016, a draft resolution was submitted to the Council of the Italian Veneto region on the recognition of Crimea as Russian and the lifting of sanctions, the initiator of the issue was Councilor Stefano Waldegamberi.

27 deputies of the Veneto Council then voted for the document.

In June 2016, Mirzakhanyan already wrote about the "action plan" called "Resolutions in Austria and Italy".

The letter states that the resolution will now be submitted to the Italian Senate, and this will be done by Waldegamberi's colleague from the right-wing League of the North party, Senator Paolo Tassato, according to the investigators.

"At the end of the document, in the "estimate" section, it is written: "20,000 EUR + 20,000 EUR (withdrawal), in case of a successful vote +15,000 EUR in each case."

A few days later, Tassato actually submitted a draft resolution to the parliament — the Italian Senate rejected it on June 27," the material says.

In the same document, as it is claimed, the estimate for introducing a similar resolution to the Austrian parliament is indicated: "20,000 EUR, in case of a successful vote +15,000 EUR."

And the executor is MP Johannes Hübner from the Austrian Freedom Party.

In June 2016, Huebner did introduce such a resolution, but the majority of deputies did not support it.

Investigators found similar "action plans" for Latvia, Greece and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Mirzakhanyan's mail.

However, the most successful project of the Kremlin's political technologists, as noted, was Cyprus, where in July 2016 the parliament nevertheless supported a resolution similar in content.