Literally every single political institution in the world, from sports clubs to town councils to national governments, have back channels and organizations that

Literally every single political institution in the world, from sports clubs to town councils to national governments, have back channels and organizations that promote agendas. It is the means by which those agendas get put through governments that make something legitimate or not. But we're going down a rabbit hole. The point is that Russia now has more economic leverage over eastern Europe, and for what?