Kaija, a cursory glance would answer your questions. This wonderful russian propoganda article doing the MSM round today, are based on '2 independant expert research organisations'. The first War on the Rocks Established this month , Clint Watts and others first published their claims on November 6th. (Clint Watts, who describes himself as President of Miburo Inc amongst other things... www.fpri.org/contributor/clint-watts/....and Miburo Inc here.....www.manta.com/c/mb481tn/miburo-solutions-inc ......staff #1 LOL) Whilst they struggled to get credibility with their 6th Nov article, they needed a second independant expert to validate them. Up pops ProporNot. Established 16th November. www.propornot.com/2016/10/introducing-propornot-be-aware-of-and.html
Luckily for the USA, neither of these random newly discovered 'expert organisations', are providing intelligence for the US intelligence services. Phew.
However, to pad out a juicy spin story, throw in the whole 'russias behind the wikileaks' leak, which has been catagorically denied by both Russia and wikileaks, and you have what youve peddled today. No independant experts, no independant research, and a mass of padding thats already been discredited. Does that help?