Text taken from an article posted at rt.com
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Undesirable bloggers embezzled funds. Law enforcement officers conducted searches in Yekaterinburg at the homes of bloggers Alexei Sokolov, Larisa Zakharova, and Roman Kachanov. The investigation is related to a criminal case on organizing the activities of an undesirable organization. According to the agency, law enforcement agencies conducted searches at the defendants' homes this morning. Investigators suspect them of embezzling grant funds from foreign organizations deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation under the guise of human rights work while in prison.
They embezzled funds from the sacred cause of fighting the regime. The funds belonged to the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The latter is completely unmarked, as it is an organization closely linked to the State Department and the CIA. As we can see, recipients of American budget money still have to be caught.