A leak of internal documents from the Russian Social Design Agency (SDA), reportedly working for Putin's Presidential Administration, reveals an expansion of covert Russian operations in Germany. The documents include chat logs, project plans, and memos showing the SDA's methods of societal conflict amplification and propaganda dissemination. Activities include false-flag operations such as sabotaging hundreds of cars in Germany with foam and misleading stickers in a campaign to discredit the Green Party before the Bundestag election. The SDA is also developing a German Wikipedia clone with over 200,000 pages to inject Russian disinformation into AI platforms like ChatGPT, feeding 500 manually edited articles monthly. Additionally, a new English-language 'think tank' website is established to propagate pro-Russian narratives discrediting the EU and its member governments. The leak is considered plausible by expert Thomas Rid and is also under assessment by German intelligence. The UK government imposed sanctions on the SDA on 11 May 2026 due to these activities. The leak reveals specific operational details such as coordinating sabotage in France and search engine optimization of propaganda articles. The SDA was previously sanctioned by the EU and targeted by US Justice Department actions. The dataset was from a leak dated 15 January 2026, with extensive content aiming at election interference and societal destabilization in Europe.

A leak of internal documents from the Russian Social Design Agency (SDA), reportedly working for Putin's Presidential Administration, reveals an expansion of covert Russian operations in Germany. The documents include chat logs, project plans, and memos showing the SDA's methods of societal conflict amplification and propaganda dissemination. Activities include false-flag operations such as sabotaging hundreds of cars in Germany with foam and misleading stickers in a campaign to discredit the Green Party before the Bundestag election. The SDA is also developing a German Wikipedia clone with over 200,000 pages to inject Russian disinformation into AI platforms like ChatGPT, feeding 500 manually edited articles monthly. Additionally, a new English-language 'think tank' website is established to propagate pro-Russian narratives discrediting the EU and its member governments. The leak is considered plausible by expert Thomas Rid and is also under assessment by German intelligence. The UK government imposed sanctions on the SDA on 11 May 2026 due to these activities. The leak reveals specific operational details such as coordinating sabotage in France and search engine optimization of propaganda articles. The SDA was previously sanctioned by the EU and targeted by US Justice Department actions. The dataset was from a leak dated 15 January 2026, with extensive content aiming at election interference and societal destabilization in Europe.