Plus, don’t miss the RussiaGate Lexicon as well — please note these are both works in progress and being updated frequently.
Bestiary
Huma Abedin | Top aide to Hillary Clinton |
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ABLV | One of the largest private banks in Latvia |
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Roman Abramovich | Russian steel magnate whose Evraz company was given the green light to supply steel to DAPL by the Trump administration |
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ACU Strategic Partners | A company seeking to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East in partnership with a sanctioned Russia company; Mike Flynn was working for them without having disclosed it to the US government as required. |
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Aeroflot | |
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Aras Agalarov | Emin’s father; a wealthy Russian-Azerbaijani oligarch who has received lucrative construction contracts from the Kremlin. Known as “Putin’s Builder” |
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Emin Agalarov | Popular Russian-Azerbaijani singer and businessperson who may have facilitated a handoff of hacked information to Donald Trump Jr via surrogates |
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Rinat Akhmetov | Ukranian steel magnate who brokered the relationship between Paul Manafort and defeated presidential candidate Victor Yanukovich |
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Rinat Akhmetshin | Former Soviety spy who attending the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya |
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Vagit Alekperov | CEO of Lukoil, Russia’s second largest oil and gas company, that sought the services offered by Trump data firm Cambridge Analytica |
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Alfa Bank / Alfa Group | Largest private commercial bank in Russia, that reportedly had a mysterious secret server connection to the Trump Organization during the campaign. The head of Alfa Group is the father-in-law of Dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan, currently serving 30 days in federal prison after being indicted by the FBI in the Mueller investigation. |
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Leyla Aliyeva | Wife of Emin Agalarov and daughter of the president of Ajerbaijan. |
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Dmitri Alperovich | Head of Crowdstrike, the US security firm that first broke the results of the DNC hack investigation, concluding the Russian military intelligence agency was behind it. |
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Anbang Insurance | |
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Michael Anton | Flight 93 |
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Apple | The House might come after messaging records for principals. |
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Tevfik Arif | co-founder of Bayrock and Kazakh-born Soviet official turned real estate tycoon |
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Andrey Artemenko | Member of the Ukranian parliament who says Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen and business crony Felix Sater confirmed the White House received his “peace proposal” (suggesting Russia “lease” the country for 100 years) |
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Julian Assange | Editor-in-chief of Wikileaks and former hacker from Australia, currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on the lam from rape charges in Sweden; he is suspected of coordinating with the Russian government on the cyber attack on the American election in 2016. |
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Artem Avetisyan | Russian banker and consultant who bought Bank of Cyprus’s Russian-based businesseses; a transaction overseen by Wilbur Ross |
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Mykola Azarov | Former Prime Minister of Ukraine who was ousted in the Maidan revolution along with President Viktor Yanukovych. |
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Bank of Cyprus | |
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Steve Bannon | |
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Andrey Baranov | Head of investor relations for Rosneft who met with Carter Page in Moscow after his 2016 speech. |
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Fabien Baussart | Cooperated with Russia in the Syrian civil war and nominated Putin for a Nobel Peace Prize; Donald Trump, Jr. spoke at an event held by Baussart’s French think tank. |
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Bayrock Group | Employed Felix Sater for a number of shady real estate dealings involving Mr Trump. Founded by Tevfik Arif, a Russian oligarch. |
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Brian Benczkowski | Trump’s pick to lead the DOJ’s criminal division; once represented a Putin-tied Russian bank |
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Berserk Bear | Hacker group |
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Leonid Bershidsky | Well-known journalist who was the founding editor of Russia’s top business daily, Vedomosti, as well as the first publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes; left the country during the Brain Drain. “The Kremlin doesn’t care because it doesn’t consider the likes of me Russia’s best and brightest,” he told me by email after his departure to Germany in the summer of 2014. “To them, we’re the traitors, the fifth column.” |
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Vitaly Bespalov | 26-year-old former worker at the Internet Research Agency in Russia who has spoken to the US media about his experiences in the “factory of lies” |
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Preet Bharara | U.S. Attorney who was prosecuting the Prevezon Holdings case when he was fired by Trump, shortly after which the huge case about to go to trial abruptly settled. |
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Black Sea Cable | |
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Darren Blanton | his company Colt Ventures provided data management services to the Trump campaign |
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Tony Blinken | John Kerry’s deputy secretary of state under Obama |
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Anna Vladislavovna Bogacheva | Worked for the Internet Research Agency from at least April 2014 to at least July 2014; she served on the translator project and oversaw the group’s data analysis operations. she is one of the operatives who traveled to the United States to gasther intel. |
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Mikhail Bogdanov | Russian deputy foreign minister |
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Gen. Alexander Bortnikov | Director of FSB circa 2015 |
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Maria Anatolyevna Bovda | Worked for the Internet Research Agency from at least November 2013 to at least October 2014. She was at one time head of the translator project, along with other positions. |
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Donna Brazile | |
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John Brennan | Acting CIA director under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016 |
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Bridges LLC | LLC begun by Maria Butina and Paul Erickson in South Dakota |
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Elliot Broidy | Major Trump campaign donor and Deputy Finance Chair of the RNC, who suspiciously took hundreds of millions of dollars from the UAE and was working on a business deal with the corrupt Prime Minister of Malaysia implicated in a heist of $4.5 billion dollars. Had himself been charged with felony bribery, ended up turning state’s witness, plea-bargained his case down to a misdimeanor while those he bribed went to prison. Also, he was reportedly negotiating a deal wherein he stood to benefit to the tune of $75 million, to drop the Feds’ case into the Malaysian theft. |
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William Browder | Founder of Hermitage Capital, who worked with Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to uncover a $230 million money laundering scheme from Prevezon Holdings into NYC real estate. He has sought justice for the murder of Magnitsky in 2009. |
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Mikhail Leonidivich Burchik | One of the 13 Russian nationals indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018, in connection with the Internet Research Agency’s attack on the U.S. 2016 election. Burchik was Executive Director, the #2 in the organization, from at least March 2014. |
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Sen. Richard Burr | (R-NC) and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of the committees in Congress conducting Russia investigations |
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Richard Burt | Helped Trump write his first foreign policy speech |
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Evgeny Buryakov | |
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Maria Butina | “Personal assistant” to Alexander Torshin, she claims to have started several gun rights organizations in Russia |
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Buzzfeed | Originally broke the story of the Steele dossier and published what of it they had. |
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Mikhail Bystrov | One of the 13 Russians indicted by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel in February 2018, Bystrov was General Director — the organization’s highest-ranking position — by April 2014. |
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Cambridge Analytica | Data analytics company that worked for the Trump campaign and has been indicted in the UK for data theft. |
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Cendyn | Cloud computing company that hosted the Trump Organization and may have information on the Alfa Bank link during the campaign |
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Center for Political and Foreign Affairs | French right-wing group that hosted a Trump trip to Paris during the home stretch of the campaign |
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Mike Cernovich | Alt-Right personality in the U.S. who lives in Orange County, CA |
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Jason Chaffetz | Bowing out of politics after announcing a move to Fox and whining about the cost of living as a Senator |
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Yuri Chaika | Russian prosecutor general |
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James Clapper | Director of National Intelligence under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016 |
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Bill Clinton | |
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Hillary Clinton | |
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Dan Coates | Director of National Intelligence who testified that there is no doubt Russia sees its 2016 efforts as having been successful. |
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Michael Cohen | Trump’s personal lawyer. Convicted of various federal crimes including campaign finance violations; sentenced to 3 years in prison. |
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Roy Cohn | Trump’s mentor and ruthless, vicious lawyer |
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Susan Collins (R-ME) | Senator from Maine who has been a voice of moderation within the Republican-controlled Senate, siding several times with the Democrats and voting against her own party. |
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James Comey | Being fired by Donald Trump as the FBI Director |
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Mike Conaway | new leader of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe after the recusal of Devin Nunes |
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Concord Catering | Company owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, known to be nicknamed “Putin’s Chef” and inside the Russian president’s inner circle. |
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Sam Clovis | |
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Colt Ventures | provided data management services to the Trump campaign, and an investor in VizSense — a social media company who worked reportedly for the campaign and for Michael Flynn |
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Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) | Leader of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal |
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George Conway | Husband of Kellyanne Conway, a lawyer who has represented a corporation accused of bribing Russian officials |
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Kellyanne Conway | |
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Rep. John Conyers | Criticized the firing of Sally Yates: “If dedicated government officials deem [Trump’s] directives to be unlawful and unconstitutional, he will simply fire them as if government is a reality show.” |
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Alex Copson | Managing director of ACU Strategic Partners, a firm Mike Flynn was consulting for regarding building nuclear power plants in the Middle East. |
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Ed Cox | New York Republican Party Chairman and son-in-law of Richard Nixon who recommends Carter Page to the Trump campaign |
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Randolph “Randy” Credico | Roger Stone’s publicly identified intermediary between himself and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. When subpoena’d by Congress, he pled the Fifth. |
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Crocus Group | Real estate developmenr firm owned by the Agalarovs, that secured the Moscow location for Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe pageant |
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Crowdstrike | One of the US private security contractors who implicated the Russians in the hack of the DNC servers. |
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Olivia Culpo | The reigning Miss Universe at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant (and former Miss USA, and noted Trump favorite) |
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Rep. Elijah Cummings | ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, one of the first to request an investigation into Michael Flynn |
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Michael Daniel | White House director of cybersecurity |
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Davis Manifort Partners, Inc. (DMP) | Political consulting company created by Paul Manafort in 2005. |
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Rick Dearborn | |
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Definers Public Affairs | GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook to besmirch its rivals and tar them with accusations of being tied to George Soros |
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Wendi Deng | Ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, friend of Ivanka Trump, and friend of Russian oligarhcs + Putin (rumored to be Putins’ girlfriend) |
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Diana Denman | |
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Oleg Deripaska | Russian billionaire and Kremlin insider barred from the US due to organized crime links [contact w/Paul Manafort] |
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Deutsche Bank | Both the Risk Division’s Goup Risk Office and Credit Risk Management teams are under scrutiny from House Democrats at the HPSCI for due diligence on Trump transactions that have anything to do with the bank’s own confirmed history of laundering Russian money. |
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Igor Diveykin | |
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Kirill Dmitriev | Chief executive of the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund, their sovereign wealth fund, who met with Erik Prince at a bar in the Seychelles, with George Nader present. |
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DMP International, LLC (DMI) | Company started by Paul Manafort in 2011 to consult, lobby, and do PR for Ukranian dictator Victor Yanukovich, whom Manafort helped get elected in 2010 until fleeing the country in 2014. |
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Dmitry Dokuchaev | FSB handler of Russian DNC hacker |
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Donbas region | Area of Ukraine where a counter-revolution emerged after students ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and overthrew the government. |
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Jack Dorsey | Co-founder and CEO of Twitter and Square |
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Alexander Downer | Top Australian diplomat in Britain, who had drinks with George Papadopolous in London the night he blabbed about the Russians having dirt on Hillary Clinton. |
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DragonFly | Hacker group |
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Alexander Dugin | Russia’s most well-known neo-fascist ideologue, & Kremlin confidant |
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Pavel Durov | Founder of the successful VKontakte social network website, often described as Russia’s Facebook. Durov said he had been forced out of the company over his refusal to co-operate with the security services, and that his company was now under the “full control” of Kremlin-friendly figures |
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Arkady Dvorkovich | |
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Josh Earnest | Obama White House press secretary in 2016 |
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Fedor Emelianenko | MMA star, former Trump business partner, and friend of Putin |
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En+ Group Plc | One of Oleg Deripaska’s companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration. |
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Energetic Bear | Hacker group connected to the Kremlin |
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Boris Epshteyn | |
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Paul Erickson | |
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Oleg Erovinkin | ex-KGB chief linked to helping the Christopher Steele dossier on Trump, reportedly found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day |
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European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (the Centre) | NGO entity created by Manafort and Gates in Belgium in 2012 to serve as an “arm’s length” front for their work with Yanukovich. |
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EuroSibEnergo JSC | One of Oleg Deripaska’s companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration. |
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FAN (Federal Agency of News) | Fictional corporate twin entity to the IRA (indicted by Mueller) that is suing Facebook on First Amendment grounds… surely to go up to a COTUS tipped by Kavangaugh, as all such hyper-controversial cases are liable to be?!?! |
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Fancy Bear | |
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Nigel Farage | Former UKIP leader now under investigation for ties to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange |
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FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) | Investigation of domestic terror units and criminal cells, as well as foreign criminal groups within the U.S. |
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Federal Assembly | Russian Parliament |
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Federal Election Commission (FEC) | Overseeing the process generally of national and state elections |
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Diane Feinstein | US Senator from California who published Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS’s transcript of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
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FireEye | Security firm |
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Dmitry Firtash | Ukranian oligarch and nagural gas magnate who got sweetheart deals within Putin’s inner circle |
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Marc Elias | |
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Jon Finer | John Kerry’s chief of staff |
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FL Group | Icelandic hedge fund with ties to Putin, that invested in Trump Soho via FBI informant and convicted felon Sal Lauria |
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Michael Flynn | As the new NSA director he advocated military intervention in the Middle East and an alliance with Russia; later it turned out he’d accepted undisclosed payments from the Rurkish government and lied about undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak |
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Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts | Hosted the meeting in the Seychelles between Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund |
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Fox News | |
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Free Beacon | see: Washington Free Beacon |
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Mikhail Maratovich Fridman | invested $200m in Uber (?) |
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Peter Fritsch | |
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Frontier Services Group | Erik Prince’s company, who has ignored document requests from Congress relating to the meeting in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev |
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FSB | the Russian Federal Security Service |
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Fusion GPS | Political research firm hired first by conservative billionaire, later by the Clinton campaign, that ultimately led to the Steele dossier. |
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Michael Gaeta | |
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Gang of Eight | |
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Rick Gates | Paul Manafort’s right hand man, indicted along with the former Trump campaign manager for a number of federal crimes from money laundering to illegal foreign lobbying and tax evasion. |
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Gazeta.ru | |
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Gazprom | Russia’s energy monopolgy and largest gas company |
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Georgia | Former Soviet state |
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Gerasimov | Russian General who wrote seminal asymmetric warfare doc |
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Masha Gessen | Journalist and author who has lived extensively in Russia and studied the rise of Putin |
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Igor Girkin | Leader of the Ukranian pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, he is alleged to have been connected to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 |
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Rudy Giuliani | Publicly “predicted” the Comey “re-opening” of Clinton’s emails when the Anthony Weiner laptop was found |
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Glavplakat | |
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Nikolai Glushkov | Former Boris Berezovsky associate turned up murdered in the UK, 8 days after the poisoning and attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in London. |
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Richard Goettlich | |
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Rob Goldstone | Publicist of Russian-Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov who set up the June 9 meeting between Don Jr, Kushner, Manafort, and the Russians |
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Online search company whose system was gamed, hacked, or perhaps simply used intentionally to sow disinformation to some of the most vulnerable citizen targets, as identified by stolen and purchased predictive user data. | |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Glasnost |
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Sergei Gordeev | |
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J.D. Gordon | |
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Sebastian Gorka | Former counterterrorism analyst for Fox News who joined the administration as an adviser; his ties to the Hungarian right had come increasingly under scrutiny before his departure from the White House. Prior to immigrating to the United States, Gorka had mounted an unsuccessful political career in Hungary and, in doing so, once expressed support for a far-right militia in the country. |
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Sergey Gorkov | |
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Nikolai Gorokhov | |
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Government Accountability Office | A watchdog organization for financial and other high-profile crimes within the U.S. |
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Trey Gowdy | (R-SC) Chair of the House Oversight Committee |
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Sen. Chuck Grassley | (R-IA) |
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GRU | Soviety military intelligence services |
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GSA | Has been asserted by TFA that documents were “unlawfully” given to the Special Counsel’s Office by this agency, including parts susceptible to privilege. |
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Guccifer 2.0 | Russian hacker believed to be a Kremlin agent |
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Alex Halderman | Testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the probable ability of the Russians to hack an election |
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Hapsburg group | Informal name given to the set of former European politicians whom Paul Manafort and Rick Gates paid to espouse pro-Yanukovich talking points. |
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Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA) | Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal |
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Hermitage Capital Management | The investment fund client of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered a $230 million money laundering scheme through New York real estate via Prevezon, a Russian holding company. |
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Hope Hicks | Yet another former White House Communications Director, she resigned the day after giving 9 hours of testimony on the Hill to the House Intelligence Committee. Til then she had been the longest-running current member of the Trump campaign. |
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Rick Hohlt | |
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Jon Iadonisi | Tied to VizSense Inc. and White Canvas Group, 2 firms that did business with Michael Flynn |
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Ivan Ilyin | Christian fascist philosopher who inspired much of Vladimir Putin’s political philosophy |
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Imgur | Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena |
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Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena the transition team for records of | |
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IRA (Internet Research Agency) | Well-known troll farm with ties to the Kremlin, funded and run by Russian oligarch and “Putin’s Chef” Yevgeniy Prigozhin (who also oversees private mercenary military forces in Syria and Ukraine. |
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Iron Liberty | |
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Iskra | The main Bolshevik newspaper in the early 20th century |
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Darrell Issa | |
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Viktor Ivanov | One of Putin’s closest allies, he’s the head of anti-narcotics in Russia; has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the US (!) |
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Ramzan Kadyrov | Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader, who is thought to be behind the murder of Putin critic and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Kadyrov received a medal from Putin the month after Nemtsov’s murder. |
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Oleg Kalugin | Former KGB agent who became a U.S. citizen and grew critical of Putin’s regime. |
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Denis Katsyv | Sole shareholder of Prevezon, implicated in the $230m theft of Russian taxpayer dollars |
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Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze | 8th person at Don Jr’s June 9 meeting; VP at Crocus Group, owned by Aras Agalarov — a lawyer for the Russian real estate firm, he has been identified by the Government Accountability Office as part of a large ring of Russian money-laundering operations. |
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Robert Kelner | Mike Flynn’s lawyer |
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Brian Kemp | Georgia secretary of state who bristled at the idea of DHS’s warning about the election integrity and attempts to hack voter registration |
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John Kerry | Secretary of State under Obama from 2013 to 2018 |
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Ketchum | Western PR firm that helps place pro-Russian op-eds in Western media (like Putin’s in NYTimes on 9/11/13) |
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KGB | The Soviet secret service, renowned for ruthlessness and duplicity |
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Eva Khan | Daughter of a Russian oligarch, married to Alex van der Zwaan — the first to go to prison in the Mueller investigation. |
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German Khan | Russian oligarch billionaire, principal of Alfa Bank (Russia’s largest privste bank) and the father-in-law of Alex van der Zwaan who has pleaded guilty to MUeller’s team. |
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Ex-oil tycoon unexpectedly freed by Putin ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics |
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Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova | FAN’s chief accountant and an indictee under Mueller’s Russian investigation |
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Konstantin Kilimnik | Paul Manafort’s business associate in the Ukraine |
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Sergey Kislyak | Russian Ambassador who spoke with Mike Flynn [tracker] about lifting sanctions in undisclosed series of meetings |
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KLS Research LLC | Company formed by Peter Smith to facilitate and manage his question to find Hillary’s missing emails. |
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Artem Klyushin | |
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Koala | |
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Aleksandr Kogan | Cambridge Analytica researcher who oversaw the harvesting of 50 million Facebook user accounts’ info who also moonlighted as a lecturer at St. Petersburg University |
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Kommersant | Long-respected business newspaper purchased by pro-Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov |
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Komsomol | Leninist Youth League organization for Communists aged 14 to 28 in the late 80s & early 90s |
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Konstantin Kosachev | |
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Andrei Kostin | CEO of VTB, one of the largest Russian banks (and under US sanctions) |
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BĂ©la Kovacs (KGBĂ©la) | One of the leaders of Jobbik, Hungary’s pro-Putin rightist party, who is accused of being a Russian spy. |
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Dmitry Kovtun | One of the two main suspects in the UK’s murder investigation case of former FSB/KGB spy turned informant and expat dissident, Alexander Litvinenko — killed by polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with the two then-current KGB officers in November, 2006. |
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Vladimir Kozhin | Senior Putin aide who attended the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in lieu of Putin. |
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The Kremlin | |
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Jody Kriss | Former Bayrock partner who filed a lawsuit in January, 2017 alleging tax evasion of as much as $250 million in income + Russian money laundering |
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Aleksandra Krylova | Served as Director and 3rd highest employee within the Internet Research Agency, from at least September 2013. |
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Mikhail Kulagin | Russian diplomat recalled to Russia, fearing his cover would be blown re: heavy involvement in the 2016 election, including the veterans’ pensions ruse |
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Charles Kushner | Father of Jared, the elder Kushner committed campaign fraud, blackmailed his own sister, and spent time in federal prison before re-emerging to help run the family business and, of course, suck at the teat of the Presidency |
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Jared Kushner | The evil son-in-law so evil he owned a billion dollar building at 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan |
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Kushner Companies | |
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David Laufman | Former chief of the DOJ’s Counterintelligence & Export Control Section |
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Sal Lauria | FBI informant and convicted felon who brokered a $150 million deal for Sater with FL Group, an Icelandic hedge fund tied to Putin that also invested in the Trump Soho project |
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Sergei Lavrov | Russian Foreign Minister |
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Platon Lebedev | |
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Marie Le Pen | head of the French far-Right party |
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Pyotr Levashov | Russian hacker who ran the sprawling Kelihos botnet, a massive spam and scam network; indicted by a US grand jury on 4/21/17 |
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Lenta.ru | |
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Lev Leviev | Russian “king of diamonds” who was a partner in Prevezon (involved in the Magnistsky-exposed money laundering of $230m in Russian tax dollars) and sold several floors of the NYTimes building in Manhattan to Jared Kushner |
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Ruslan Leviyev | Former police investigator from the Siberian city of Surgut, who left the force after becoming disgusted by the “culture of corruption” he had witnessed, and moved to Moscow in 2009. Inspired, like so many others, by the anti-Putin protests of 2011–12, Leviyev, a tattooed 29-year-old, is now one of the country’s top “social media dissidents”. |
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Val Levitan | Russian Canadian CEO of developer Talon (Trump Toronto); had no previous experience in real estate or construction |
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Corey Lewandowski | Donald Trump’s first campaign manager; succeeded by Paul Manafort. |
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Robert LiButti | Alleged mobster and associate of John Gotti, who is on video with Trump in the 80s at a WrestleMania event |
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Vladimir Lisin | Russian steel mogul who made $830m in 3 days after the election |
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Aleksandr Litvinenko | former Russian FSB agent who informed on Putin’s connections to the Russian mafia and was assassinated by polonium-210 poisoning in 2006 |
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Marina Litvinenko | |
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Andrey Lugovoy | One of the two main suspects in the UK’s murder investigation case of former FSB/KGB spy turned informant and expat dissident, Alexander Litvinenko — killed by polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with the two then-current KGB officers in November, 2006. Lugovoy is currently a sitting member of the Russian parliament: deputy of the State Duma. |
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Lukoil | Russia’s second largest oil company after Rosneft, they contracted with Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica |
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Loretta Lynch | US Attorney General under Barack Obama |
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Rachel Maddow | Host of the most popular nighttime news show on MSNBC; she’s been following the Russia story aggressively for over a year in meticulously detailed fashion. |
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Sergei Magnitsky | lawyer who tried to expose the theft of $230 million of Russian taxpayers’ money by Prevezon Holdings (laundered into NYC real estate) before being arrested and allegedly tortured prior to his death in a Moscow prison in 2009; the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act is a landmark human rights act named after him. |
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Paul Manafort | |
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Jeanette Manfra | Head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security who confirmed to NBC News that the Russians successfully infiltrated “an exceptionally small number” of voter regidstration rolls in 21 states. |
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John Mashburn | |
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John McCain | |
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Evan McMullen | |
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Medium | Social media and blogging community frequented by the Russians during their efforts at sowing propaganda and discord during the American 2016 Presidential election. |
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Dmitry Medvedev | Russian Prime Minister |
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Menatep | |
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Rebecca Mercer | |
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Robert Mercer | Shadowy billionaire Trump backer and donor who also backs Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and John Bolton. |
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MI6 | British intelligence agency; the rough equivalent of the American CIA. |
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Joseph Mifsud | Director of the London Academy of Diplomacy who meets with George Papadopoulos in Italy. |
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Leonid Mikhelson | part owner of Novatek who made $1.9b from the stock pop post-Trump |
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Stephen Miller | Aggressively anti-immigrant advisor to Trump, co-writing many of his most vitriolic speeches |
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Sergei Millian | Trump associate, head of the Russian-American chamber of commerce, and one of the sources of the Steele dossier |
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Marat Mindiyarov | Former worker at the Russian troll factory, the Internet Research Agency, who told the Western press what it was like inside the farm. |
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Semion Mogilevich | Notorious mobster |
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan | The crown prince of Abu Dhabi. |
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Mossack Fonseca | World’s fourth largest offshore law firm, whose files were published as the Panama Papers in a German newspaper |
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Robert Mueller | Special Counsel at the DOJ, investigating RussiaGate |
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MVD | Ministry of Internal Affairs; supervises all police, prisons, and “public order militias” |
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George Nader | Lebanese-American businessman who lobbies for the UAE, and was at the meeting in the Seychelles with Erik Prince and the Russians |
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Alexsei Navalny | Putin critic and activist blogger; has been arrested, charged, & sentenced several times (but recognized as a political prisoner by NGOs) |
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Boris Nemtsov | Putin critic and opposition politician who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015 by a member of the Chechen security forces |
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New Island | Restaurant of Yevgeny Prigozhin that became a favorite of Putin’s, netting Mr Prigozhin lucrative contracts for shady operations as “Putin’s Chef” |
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Newsru.com | |
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Alexander Nix | CEO of Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica |
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NKVD | a forerunner to the KGB under Stalin |
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NSA (National Security Agency) | |
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Sam Nunberg | Former Trump aide who made a series of bizarre statements on cable TV before testifying to Robert Mueller’s team |
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Devin Nunes | |
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Observer Media | Media company owned by Jared Kushner. |
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Keith Olbermann | American TV host |
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Opposition Bloc | Successor ruling party in Ukraine after Victor Yanukovich fled to Moscow and his Party of Regions toppled. |
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Viktor Orban | President of Hungary, noted for his pro-Putin and anti-refugee beliefs |
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Orbis | Steele’s research firm |
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Alex Oronov | dead — Bryan Cohen’s father-in-law (brother of Trump’s personal lawyer |
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Ostankino | Russia’s TV network |
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Ozero Cooperative | |
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Carter Page | |
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George Papadopoulos | Member of the Trump campaign who has pled guilty in the Robert Mueller investigation and flipped to become a cooperating witness. |
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Brad Parscale | Head of the Trump campaign’s digital operation |
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Party of Regions | Ukranian political party run by Victor Yanukovych, the pro-Putin dictator ushered into power by Paul Manafort. |
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Sam Patten | |
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PBK | |
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Mike Pence | Vice President of the United States |
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Pericles Emerging Markets | |
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Perkins Coie | |
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Dmitry Peskov | Putin’s press secretary. Michael Cohen was in touch with him as late at June 2016, during the presidential campaign, in talks over the Trump Tower Moscow deal. |
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Walid Phares | Fox News counterterrorism analyst & one of Trump’s 5 initial national security advisors |
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John Podesta | His stolen emails were one of several tronches of stolen documents released by Wikileaks at strategic moments during the 2016 presidential election campaign. |
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Victor Podobnyy | Russian agent who received intelligence information from American energy consultant Carter Page beginning in January 2013 |
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Sergey Polozov | Worked for the Internet Research Agency as its head of IT from April 2014 to at least July 2014; he oversaw the buildout of the U.S. infrastructure for the Russian operations. |
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Mike Pompeo | CIA Director who went from praising to condemning Wikileaks |
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Petro Poroshenko | Ukranian president |
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Prevezon Holdings | a Cyprus company that has invested in Manhattan real estate and which prosecutors allege was the receptacle for some of the $230 million stolen from Russian taxpayers in 2007; part of Hermitage Capital, the investment fund Magnitsky was investigating until his murder in a Moscow prison in 2009. |
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Reince Priebus | |
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Yevgeniy Prigozhin | “Putin’s Chef” — a former caterer and restauranteur who now runs Vladimir Putin’s internet propaganda operations via the Internet Research Agency as well as overseeing mercenary forces operating in Syria and Ukraine. |
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Erik Prince | Sec. of Education Betsy DuVoss’s brother, who met a Russian oligarch in the Seychelles during the campaign to talk about lifting sanctions. Founded and runs Blackwater, a formidable private security firm often accompanying US military operations as the theater of war becomes increasingly privatized and mercenaries find themselves duking it out in the desert armed with the plausible deniability of being at arm’s length from their country’s official foreign policy. |
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Project Veritas | |
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Pussy Riot | |
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Vladimir Putin | |
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Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) | Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal |
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Was asked by House Democrats on March 7, 2018 to provide intel on the scope and scale of the Russian disinformation effort on their platforms during the 2016 election | |
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Relcom | One of the first private companies or “collectives” formed under Gorbachev’s glasnost reforms, it brokered the first proto-Internet within the Soviet Union and first connection to the outside world — playing a key role in thwarting the attempted coup against Gorbachev by the KGB in August, 1991 |
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Right to Bear Arms | Moscow-based entity begun by Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin — odd, in a country with no gun rights at all. |
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Ritz Carlton | Hosted Donald Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant |
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Rodina | extreme nationalist party in Russia c. 2003 that hinted at ethnic cleansing; The Guardian reported it had actually been set up as a prop by Putin & cronies, to draw votes away from the other far-right Communist Party |
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Ed Rogers | Hired by Alfa Bank: a former REagan administration official |
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Mike Rogers | Admiral and Director of the National Security Agency under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016 |
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Dana Rohrabacher | Representative (R-CA 48th District) since 2013; dubbed “Putin’s favorite Congressman” |
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Rosneft | Russia’s state oil company |
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Rossiiskaia Gazeta | Russia’s official government newspaper |
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Wilbur Ross | US Secretary of Commerce and single largest shareholder of the Bank of Cyprus, the famous haven for Russian oligarchs to stash their billions |
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Rossotrudnichestvo | |
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Steve Roth | CEO of Vornado, a $20 billion real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns 49.5% of Jared Kushner’s building at 666 Fifth Avenue; he’s also on Trump’s economic advisory team |
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Andrei Rozov | |
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RT.com | Russian state-owned news service |
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RUPTLY | The Kremlin’s new video news agency |
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Rusal | One of Oleg Deripaska’s companies whose sanctions have been lifted by Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. |
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Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USA | |
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Russian Direct Investment Fund | Russia’s sovereign wealth fund |
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Russian Imperial Movement | part of the far-right coalition within Russia seeking to build an international consensus, this group advocates “Christian Orthodox imperial nationalism” |
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Sergei Ryabkov | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister |
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Paul Ryan | Speaker of the House (R-WI) and a Trump defender and denialist |
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Dmitry Rybolovlev | the “Fertilizer King” — fertilizer billionaire who purchased Trump’s Palm Beach mansion for $95 million, but never moved in |
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Sheryl Sandberg | |
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders | |
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Felix Sater | Russian mobster and FBI informant who runs Bayrock, a money-laundering firm designed to hide dirty Russian money in Trump’s taxes |
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Saudi Arabia | |
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Sberbank | Russia’s largest bank |
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Anthony Scaramucci | Trump press secretary for all of 10 days |
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Dan Scavino | Managed the Trump campaign’s social media |
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Rep. Adam Schiff | Top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee overseeing that chamber’s Russia investigation |
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Keith Schiller | Trump’s longtime security chief and confidant |
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Eric Schneiderman | New York State Attorney General who has a long history of legal cases with Trump |
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Chuck Schumer | (D-NY) and Sen. Minority Leader |
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Igor Sechin | President of Rosneft at the time Exxon violated Russian sanctions to help protect his property interest |
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Jay Sekulow | Trump’s personal lawyer |
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Jeff Sessions | Current US Attorney General. He has recused himself from the Russia investigation because of his curious, multi-part memory loss of meetings with Russian agents. |
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Alex Shnaider | Ukrainian steel magnate & partner at Talon International who is managing Trump Toronto hotel as it goes into default |
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Paula Shugart | President of the Miss Universe Organization, who reported directly to Trump at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant |
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Konstantin Sidorkov | Director of PArtnership Marketing for vKontakte, a Russian social media site, that had communications with the Trump campaign about setting up a profile. |
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Siemens AG | |
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Sinclair Media | Conservative broadcasting conglomerate gobbling up local TV stations and forcing them to air canned right-wing footage with each segment. |
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Glenn Simpson | Head of research firm Fusion FPS who commissioned the Christopher Steele dossier. |
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Paul Singer | Billionaire financier who originally commissioned research firm Fusion GPS to start compiling opposition research on Donald Trump. He abandoned the project after Trump secured the nomination. |
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Law firm retained by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to “whitewash” Victor Yanukovich’s imprisonment of his political rival, Yulia Tymochenko, in Ukraine. |
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Sergei Skripal | Former Russian official turned British spy who was attacked with his daughter Yulia with nerve gas in southern England, reputedly by agents of the Kremlin. |
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Yulia Skripal | Sergei’s daughter |
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Dan Smith | Head of the State Dept’s intelligence bureau under Obama |
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Peter Smith | Alleged to have solicited help on the dark web in finding Hillary’s “missing” emails from the Russians |
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Snapchat | One of the social networks the Democratic oversight committees want to send document requests to, to request more intel on the scope and scale of the Russian campaign on their platforms |
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Edward Snowden | Controversial former employee for private firms working within the US government who absconded with millions of top secret NSA and other departmental intelligence documents, fled to Hong Kong where he alerted the press, and flew on to Moscow where he lives under the protection of the Kremlin. |
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Solidarity | Polish workers’ party confronting Communism in the late ’80s |
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Oleg Solodukhin | |
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Reuben Sorensen | Nuclear non-proliferation expert who briefed Mike Flynn on the ACU’s nuclear program and rejoiced that he would be named head of the NSA. |
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Sean Spicer | |
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Sputnik | Russian news wire proffering fake news |
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Joseph Stalin | |
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Alex Stamos | Ex-Facebook security chief |
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Stasi | Nickname for the Ministry of State Security in East Germany during the Cold War |
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Christopher Steele | Former British MI6 intelligence agent who put together the Steele Dossier on Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia |
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Beny Steinmetz | |
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Daniel Steinmetz | |
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Raz Steinmetz | |
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Roger Stone | Long-time political advisor best known for being part of Richard Nixon’s “Dirty Tricks” crew who perpetuated Watergate among much else; he “predicted” the release of Clinton’s hacked emails |
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Lee Stranahan | Works for Sputnik in Russia. Never responded to an official Congressional inquiry. |
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Strana.ru | |
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SUP Media | Russia’s largest blogging service via acquisition of LiveJournal from Six Apart |
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Vladislav Surkov | Putin’s disinformation machine |
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SVR | Russian foreign intelligence service |
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Eric Swalwell | Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee |
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Talon International | |
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Tambov-Malyshev group | organized crime ring based in St. Petersburg w/ties to Putin; led by Gennadiy Petrov and Aleksandr Malyshev |
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Targeted Victory | GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook |
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TFA | Trump for America, Inc., the business entity formed to handle the Trump transition |
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Rex Tillerson | U.S. Secretary of State and former CEO of Exxon |
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Gennady Timchenko | 23% owner of natural gas company Novatek, who made $1.8b from surges in pro-Russian market following Trump’s election |
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Ivan Timofeev | Program director at the Russian International Affairs Council, a government-funded think tank, who met with George Papadopolous to try to establish a meeting between Trump and Putin. |
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Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov | Nicknamed “The Little Taiwanese,” he’s one of Russia’s most notorious mobsters. At the time of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, he had been indicted in the U.S. for protecting a high-stakes illegal gambling operation run out of Trump Tower. |
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Alexander Torshin | Russian central banker, Putin confidant, NRA whisperer, handler of Maria Butina |
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Vadim Trincher | Ran a Russian-American gambling crime ring out of Trump Tower. Serving 5 years for racketeering. |
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Donald J. Trump | |
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Donald J. Trump Jr | |
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Eric Trump | |
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Fred Trump | |
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Ivanka Trump | |
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Tsargrad | |
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Tumblr | Was asked by House Democrats on March 7, 2018 to provide intel on the scope and scale of the Russian disinformation effort on their platforms during the 2016 election |
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Turboatom | Ukranian state-owned company who was the target of a bribery offer from ACU Strategic Partners — who Mike Flynn was working with — to accept a $45 billion contract to build reactors in Saudi Arabia in exchange for supporting the lifting of sanctions levied against Russia by the US and EU. |
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Turkey | |
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Yulia Tymoshenko | Ran against Victor Yanukovich in the 2010 Presidentials elections, and was jailed by him under spurious charges following his Paul Manafort-aided win. |
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UAE | |
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United Russia | Political Party of Russian PResident Vladimir Putin |
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Viktor Vekselberg | Putin-connected oligarch with connections to secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross [tracker] |
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Natalia Veselnitskaya | Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who met with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Kared Kushner at Trump Tower in June 2016 about the dirt Russia had on Hillary Clinton. At the time she was representing Prevezon Holdings in the case the U.S. Justice Department had brought against them for a $230 million money laundering scheme that lawyer Sergei Magnitsky had uncovered. |
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VizSense Inc. | Provided social media services to the Trump campaign and Michael Flynn |
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vKontakte | Russian social network; equivalent analog to Facebook |
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Vnesheconombank | Russian state-owned development bank, under investigation for Russian election interference |
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Vornado | $20 billion REIT that’s an ~equal partner with Jared Kushner in the 666 Fifth Ave. building in Manhattan; Steve Roth, CEO, is an advisor to Trump |
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Rosemary Vrablic | Executive at Deutsche Bank’s private wealth unit who helped finance many of Trump’s real estate projects after other banks (and the “regular” side of Deutsche Bank) wouldn’t deal with him any more, following massive losses |
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VTB Bank | Russia’s largest commercial bank; under US and EU sanctions for money laundering |
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Sen. Mark Warner | (D-VA) — top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee |
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Washington Free Beacon | |
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The Washington Post | venerable local paper purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2013 |
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz | |
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Jeff Weaver | |
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Anthony Weiner | |
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The House HPSCI committee wants to subpoena them for communication records relating to principals in the Trump campaign | |
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White Canvas Group | Undertook Turkey-related work for Michael Flynn |
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Wikileaks | |
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World National-Conservatism Movement (WNCM) | umbrella term for Russia’s movement to unite an international extreme far-right coalition |
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Christopher Wray | candidate for the next FBI Director, to replace James Comey |
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Christopher Wylie | Whistleblower from Trump data team Cambridge Analytica who revealed the existence of a formerly secret client: Lukoil, Russia’s #2 oil and gas company |
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Viktor Yanukovych | Ukraine’s former pro-Moscow president; he paid $12.7 million to help influence the Ukranian election his way before being ousted from power in 2013. Paul Manafort made many of the millions he later laundered with Rick Gates via undisclosed lobbying for Mr Yanukovych. |
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Sally Yates | Deputy Attorney General under Barack Obama and Acting Attorney General following the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was dismissed by him after 10 days when she instructed the Justice Department not to allow Trump’s Muslim ban to be enforced because it violated the law and the Constitution. |
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Steve Yates | |
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Boris Yeltsin | First President of the Russian Federation, after he orchestrated Russia’s exit from the USSR (and thus, its downfall, as all the Soviet satellite republics followed suit). He ruled from 1991 to 1999, never quite managing to usher in a true democracy before settling on a successor, an obscure and unknown former KGB officer stationed in East Berlin during the Second World War: Vladimir Putin. |
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Youtube | Favored propaganda platform for Russian agents used in the cyberattacks against the 2016 election |
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Yukos | |
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Yunarmia | “Young Army” — created in 2015 by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to “encourage patriotism among schoolchildren” |
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Mark Zuckerberg | CEO of Facebook, whose platform was used by the Russians in their influence campaign against the 2016 U.S. elections |
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Alex van der Zwaan | Dutch lawyer caught lying to the FBI about his law firm Skadden’s report on Ukranian dictator Victor Yanukovich’s imprisonment of his presidential rival Yulia Tymochenko in Ukraine. Has plead guilty to Robert Mueller’s team. |
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