LONDON, Feb. 15 -- Moscow has urged the US to disclose the names of Russian opposition figures who received funding from USAID, which Elon Musk called a "criminal organization."
According to The Times, the appeal came after US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze international aid for 90 days and suspend USAID, cutting off funding for Russian opposition media and human rights groups.
Trump put Musk in charge of a "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)", an office the US president created by executive order and likely named after the Doge memecoin, which is on a supposed mission to weed out "waste, fraud, and abuse" within the US bureaucracy.
Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia's Duma, said the US should extend the list to ...