A newly released financial report reveals that a Ukraine based anti-Putin TV station is almost entirely funded by North America and Europe. The anti-Russian Kiev-based station Hromadske.TV was set up to spread anti-Moscow propaganda and has nearly a dozen western government agencies financially supporting it, according to a 2015 report. Forbes.com reports: Who are they? They are the Canada International Development Agency (CIDA); the Embassy of The Netherlands in Ukraine; another Canadian charity called the Ukrainian World Foundation; independent DC-based Pact World; the U.S. Embassy of Ukraine’s Media Development Fund; California based Internews Network; Swiss Cooperation Office and the Swiss International Development Agency; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s fund is one of the four biggest donors; the Swedish International Liberal Center; Thomson Foundation; the German Embassy of Ukraine and the biggest funder of all, the European Commission’s Ukrainian delegation office. The U.S. is the smallest donor while European and Canadian government backed agencies are the biggest. Many of the donations are harmless funds from organizations like Pact and Thomson that train young reporters. But donations from the European Commission are a particularly interesting reveal given the anti-Russian government news flowing coming out of Hromadske. The site was created by 43 year old Ukrainian journalist, Roman Skrypin, during [...]