One of the organisers of the 2013 Berlin symposium of the Academy of Imageology was the Kaiser Communication agency. It also distributed German invitations to participate in the symposium. The agency has been in existence since 2003. Its director, Guntram Kaiser (born 1957 in Bonn, that is, in Western Germany!), studied at MGIMO from 1979 to 1980, as did one of the agency's employees, Rainer Brandau (born 1958). Kaiser received his MGIMO diploma in 1985.

Thus, it turns out that of the two Russian organisers of the symposium in Berlin, at least one (the Academy of Imageology) is a purely charlatan organisation with military-KGB ties, engaged in Russian propaganda. Of the two German organisers, one is a pseudo-public organisation with Moscow roots, simulating scientific activity in Germany. The other is a PR agency headed by an MGIMO graduate.

Taken together, this resembles a meeting of agents of influence, who, under the guise of an academic conference, discuss their specific professional problems with representatives of the Moscow leadership. And one can assume with complete certainty that all the Western participants in this symposium were already bought in advance. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to explain the participation of people with genuine academic titles in an absurd, sham event that lacks the slightest scientific merit. Just as it would be difficult to explain, by any other reason, the holding of an expensive pseudo-scientific symposium in Berlin, at the Russian House of Science and Culture, known as a centre of activity for the Russian secret services.

It is likely that many events useful to Russian intelligence services are being organised in Germany using this scheme.

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