Guardian of moscow’s state money was the main cog in Šolak’s murky dealings: Swears by the West, while stuffing Russian cash into his own pocket

However, just as the exposure of Šolak’s true motives (read: money, and always only money) completely destroyed the false image of caring for free speech, so too have his Russian connections shattered the myth of a pro-European, pro-Western and anti-Russian narrative on which both the editorial policy of his media and his publicly communicated business philosophy rested. All of this was a façade concealing numerous financial flows tied to the Kremlin and offshore