bestiary Archives - Doctor Paradox

This list casts a wide net in enumerating the various principals of interest to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election… and beyond. The Russia scandal has continued to unspool throughout the Trump presidency, including the real estate magnate’s first impeachment over his extortion of Ukraine, and his second impeachment over the armed insurrection he incited following his failed re-election bid. It continues to this day.

Plus, don’t miss the RussiaGate Lexicon — and please note these are both works in progress and being updated frequently as new details emerge about the Russia scandal, the Trump family criminal organization, and Putin’s revanchist influence in American politics.

Bestiary

Nationality	Type	Known for
American	Civil servant	Top aide to Hillary Clinton
Latvian	Bank	One of the largest private banks in Latvia
Russian	Oligarch	Russian steel magnate whose Evraz company was given the green light to supply steel to DAPL by the Trump administration
	Lobbyist	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.
Russian
Russian	Oligarch	Emin's father; a wealthy Russian-Azerbaijani oligarch who has received lucrative construction contracts from the Kremlin. Known as "Putin's Builder"
Russian	Oligarch	Popular Russian-Azerbaijani singer and businessperson who may have facilitated a handoff of hacked information to Donald Trump Jr via surrogates
Russian	Russian Mafia
Ukranian	Oligarch	Ukranian steel magnate who brokered the relationship between Paul Manafort and defeated presidential candidate Victor Yanukovich
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Former Soviety spy who attending the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
Russian	Oligarch	CEO of Lukoil, Russia's second largest oil and gas company, that sought the services offered by Trump data firm Cambridge Analytica
Russian	Bank	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.
Azerbaijani		Wife of Emin Agalarov and daughter of the president of Ajerbaijan.
	Company	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled Twitter account, an anti-immigration persona with 24,000 followers
American	Media Outlet	Helped bury stories portraying Trump in a bad light before the election, via catch and kill methodology among others
Chinese	Company
		Flight 93
American	Company	The House might come after messaging records for principals.
	Oligarch	co-founder of Bayrock and Kazakh-born Soviet official turned real estate tycoon
Ukranian		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)
Australian	Hacker	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.
Russian	Oligarch	Russian banker and consultant who bought Bank of Cyprus's Russian-based businesseses; a transaction overseen by Wilbur Ross
Ukranian	Politician	Former Prime Minister of Ukraine who was ousted in the Maidan revolution along with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Cypriot	Bank
American	Principal actor
		Suspected organized crime figure who accompanied Ivanka and Don Jr to Russia in 2007-2008
Russian	Oligarch	Head of investor relations for Rosneft who met with Carter Page in Moscow after his 2016 speech.
Russian		Worked at the Internet Research Agency
French	Foreign Intelligence	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.
	Company	Employed Felix Sater for a number of shady real estate dealings involving Mr Trump. Founded by Tevfik Arif, a Russian oligarch.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought ads in support of the Trump campaign, and had over 200,000 followers by the time it was finally deactivated in mid-2017
	Civil servant	Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's criminal division; once represented a Putin-tied Russian bank
Russian	Hacker	Hacker group
Russian	Journalist	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.”
Russian		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"
American	Lawyer	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled persona claiming to want to teach African-Americans self-defense to protect themselves when contacted by police, that hired an actual self-defense instructor in NY to offer classes sponsored by Black Fist
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled account posing as grassroots activists
American		his company Colt Ventures provided data management services to the Trump campaign
American	Civil servant	John Kerry's deputy secretary of state under Obama
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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 gather intel.
	Politician	Russian deputy foreign minister
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Director of FSB circa 2015
	Foreign Intelligence	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.
	Civil servant
American	Intelligence Community	Acting CIA director under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American	Company	LLC begun by Maria Butina and Paul Erickson in South Dakota
American	Lobbyist	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.
American	Activist	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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.
American	Politician	(R-NC) and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of the committees in Congress conducting Russia investigations
American	Lobbyist	Helped Trump write his first foreign policy speech
Russian
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	"Personal assistant" to Alexander Torshin, she claims to have started several gun rights organizations in Russia
American	Media Outlet	Originally broke the story of the Steele dossier and published what of it they had.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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.
British	Company	Data analytics company that worked for the Trump campaign and has been indicted in the UK for data theft.
American	Unregistered Foreign Agent	Member of Trump's campaign team, in charge of communications for New York. Left the campaign after voicing approval of the installation of Paul Manafort, replacing Corey Lewandowski as Trump's campaign manager.
American	Company	Cloud computing company that hosted the Trump Organization and may have information on the Alfa Bank link during the campaign
French		French right-wing group that hosted a Trump trip to Paris during the home stretch of the campaign
American	Media Personality	Alt-Right personality in the U.S. who lives in Orange County, CA
American	Media Personality	Bowing out of politics after announcing a move to Fox and whining about the cost of living as a Senator
	Lawyer	Russian prosecutor general
American	Intelligence Community	Director of National Intelligence under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American	Politician
American	Politician
American	Intelligence Community	Director of National Intelligence who testified that there is no doubt Russia sees its 2016 efforts as having been successful.
American	Lawyer	Trump's personal lawyer. Convicted of various federal crimes including campaign finance violations; sentenced to 3 years in prison.
American	Lawyer	Trump's mentor and ruthless, vicious lawyer
American	Politician	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.
American	Intelligence Community	Being fired by Donald Trump as the FBI Director
American	Intelligence Community	new leader of the House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe after the recusal of Devin Nunes
Russian	Company	Company owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, known to be nicknamed "Putin's Chef" and inside the Russian president's inner circle.
American	Company	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
American	Politician	Leader of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
American	Lawyer	Husband of Kellyanne Conway, a lawyer who has represented a corporation accused of bribing Russian officials
American	Oligarch
American	Politician	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."
	Lobbyist	Managing director of ACU Strategic Partners, a firm Mike Flynn was consulting for regarding building nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
American	Media Personality	Intermediary between Roger Stone and Wikileaks, an arm of the Russian intelligence apparatus
American		New York Republican Party Chairman and son-in-law of Richard Nixon who recommends Carter Page to the Trump campaign
		Roger Stone's publicly identified intermediary between himself and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. When subpoena'd by Congress, he pled the Fifth.
Russian	Company	Real estate developmenr firm owned by the Agalarovs, that secured the Moscow location for Trump's 2013 Miss Universe pageant
American	Company	One of the US private security contractors who implicated the Russians in the hack of the DNC servers.
American	Media Personality	The reigning Miss Universe at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant (and former Miss USA, and noted Trump favorite)
American	Politician	ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, one of the first to request an investigation into Michael Flynn
American	Intelligence Community	White House director of cybersecurity
American
American	Company	Political consulting company created by Paul Manafort in 2005.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	A cutout of the GRU, this account directly released and coordinated with Wikileaks to release more widely the stolen emails from Clinton, the DNC, and the DCCC
American
American	Lobbyist	GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook to besmirch its rivals and tar them with accusations of being tied to George Soros
	Oligarch	Ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, friend of Ivanka Trump, and friend of Russian oligarhcs + Putin (rumored to be Putins' girlfriend)
American
American	Government agency
Russian	Oligarch	Russian billionaire and Kremlin insider barred from the US due to organized crime links [contact w/Paul Manafort]
German	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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.
		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.
		FSB handler of Russian DNC hacker
Ukranian	Territory	Area of Ukraine where a counter-revolution emerged after students ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and overthrew the government.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook group with more than 250,000 followers by the time it was deactivated in mid-2017
American	Tech tycoon	Co-founder and CEO of Twitter and Square
		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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Hacker group
Russian		Russia's most well-known neo-fascist ideologue, & Kremlin confidant
Russian		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
American	Civil servant	Obama White House press secretary in 2016
	Oligarch	MMA star, former Trump business partner, and friend of Putin
	Company	One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Hacker group connected to the Kremlin
American	Unregistered Foreign Agent	Attempted to set up a backchannel between the NRA and the Russian government during the Trump campaign.
	Foreign Intelligence	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
	Lobbyist	NGO entity created by Manafort and Gates in Belgium in 2012 to serve as an "arm's length" front for their work with Yanukovich.
Russian	Company	One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration.
American	Company
Russian	Principal actor	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?!?!
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 US presidential election; also hacked MAcros campaign emails in France.
British	Politician	Former UKIP leader now under investigation for ties to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
American	Intelligence Community	Investigation of domestic terror units and criminal cells, as well as foreign criminal groups within the U.S.
Russian		Russian Parliament
American	Politician	Overseeing the process generally of national and state elections
American	Politician	US Senator from California who published Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS's transcript of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
American	Company	Security firm
Ukranian	Oligarch	Ukranian oligarch and nagural gas magnate who got sweetheart deals within Putin's inner circle
American	Civil servant	John Kerry's chief of staff
Icelandic	Company	Icelandic hedge fund with ties to Putin, that invested in Trump Soho via FBI informant and convicted felon Sal Lauria
American	Intelligence Community	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
American	Company
	Company	Hosted the meeting in the Seychelles between Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund
American	Media Outlet
American	Media Outlet	see: Washington Free Beacon
Russian	Oligarch	invested $200m in Uber (?)
American	Company	Erik Prince's company, who has ignored document requests from Congress relating to the meeting in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	the Russian Federal Security Service
American		Political research firm hired first by conservative billionaire, later by the Clinton campaign, that ultimately led to the Steele dossier.
Russian	Principal actor	Worked at the Internet Research Agency before being employed at Facebook
	Intelligence Community
American	Intelligence Community
American	Lobbyist	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.
Russian	Media Outlet
Russian	Company	Russia's energy monopolgy and largest gas company
American
Georgian	Nation-state	Former Soviet state
Russian	Military	Russian General who wrote seminal asymmetric warfare doc
	Journalist	Journalist and author who has lived extensively in Russia and studied the rise of Putin
Russian	Activist	Leader of the Ukranian pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, he is alleged to have been connected to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
American	Politician	Publicly "predicted" the Comey "re-opening" of Clinton's emails when the Anthony Weiner laptop was found
Russian	Russian Mafia	Former Boris Berezovsky associate turned up murdered in the UK, 8 days after the poisoning and attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in London.
	Russian Mafia	Publicist of Russian-Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov who set up the June 9 meeting between Don Jr, Kushner, Manafort, and the Russians
American	Company	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.
Russian	Politician	Glasnost
Hungarian	Media Personality	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.
American		A watchdog organization for financial and other high-profile crimes within the U.S.
American	Politician	(R-SC) Chair of the House Oversight Committee
American	Politician	(R-IA)
Russian	Intelligence Community	Soviety military intelligence services
American	Government agency	Has been asserted by TFA that documents were "unlawfully" given to the Special Counsel's Office by this agency, including parts susceptible to privilege.
Russian	Hacker	A cutout of the GRU, this account directly released and coordinated with Wikileaks to release more widely the stolen emails from Clinton, the DNC, and the DCCC
American	Civil servant	Hillary for America IT chief
American	Intelligence Community	Testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the probable ability of the Russians to hack an election
American	Media Personality	Made claims on his show that the Steele dossier launched the Russia probe, which isn't accurate.
European	Politician	Informal name given to the set of former European politicians whom Paul Manafort and Rick Gates paid to espouse pro-Yanukovich talking points.
American	Lawyer	Representing Trump in the Stormy Daniels case; also represented Terry Bolea in the Gawker trial
American	Politician	Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
		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.
American	Principal actor	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.
American
American	Civil servant	US Ambassador to Russia
American	Lawyer	Paul Erickson's lawyer
		Tied to VizSense Inc. and White Canvas Group, 2 firms that did business with Michael Flynn
Russian		Christian fascist philosopher who inspired much of Vladimir Putin's political philosophy
American	Company	Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena
American	Company	Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena the transition team for records of
Russian	Principal actor	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence
	Media Outlet	The main Bolshevik newspaper in the early 20th century
American	Politician
Russian		One of Putin's closest allies, he's the head of anti-narcotics in Russia; has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the US (!)
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled Twitter account claiming to be a Virginian Trump supporter with 70,000 followers
Russian	Politician	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.
Russian, American	Foreign Intelligence	Former KGB agent who became a U.S. citizen and grew critical of Putin's regime.
Russian	Oligarch	Sole shareholder of Prevezon, implicated in the $230m theft of Russian taxpayer dollars
Russian	Russian Mafia	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.
American	Lawyer	Mike Flynn's lawyer
American	Politician	Georgia secretary of state who bristled at the idea of DHS's warning about the election integrity and attempts to hack voter registration
American	Politician	Secretary of State under Obama from 2013 to 2018
American	Company	Western PR firm that helps place pro-Russian op-eds in Western media (like Putin's in NYTimes on 9/11/13)
Russian	Intelligence Community	The Soviet secret service, renowned for ruthlessness and duplicity
Russian		Daughter of a Russian oligarch, married to Alex van der Zwaan -- the first to go to prison in the Mueller investigation.
Russian	Oligarch	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.
Russian	Oligarch	Ex-oil tycoon unexpectedly freed by Putin ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics
Russian	Principal actor	FAN's chief accountant and an indictee under Mueller's Russian investigation
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Paul Manafort's business associate in the Ukraine
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Russian Ambassador who spoke with Mike Flynn [tracker] about lifting sanctions in undisclosed series of meetings
	Company	Company formed by Peter Smith to facilitate and manage his question to find Hillary's missing emails.
Russian	Oligarch	Young Russian billionaire who claims to have been instrumental in getting Trump elected.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence
		Cambridge Analytica researcher who oversaw the harvesting of 50 million Facebook user accounts' info who also moonlighted as a lecturer at St. Petersburg University
Russian	Media Outlet	Long-respected business newspaper purchased by pro-Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov
Russian		Leninist Youth League organization for Communists aged 14 to 28 in the late 80s & early 90s
Russian
Russian		CEO of VTB, one of the largest Russian banks (and under US sanctions)
Hungarian		One of the leaders of Jobbik, Hungary's pro-Putin rightist party, who is accused of being a Russian spy.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Senior Putin aide who attended the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in lieu of Putin.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	The Dutch intelligence community alerted the DNC way back in 2015 that they had been hacked back in 2014.
Russian	Principal actor
		Former Bayrock partner who filed a lawsuit in January, 2017 alleging tax evasion of as much as $250 million in income + Russian money laundering
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Served as Director and 3rd highest employee within the Internet Research Agency, from at least September 2013. She was one of two employees of the IRA who obtained visas and entered the United States on June 4, 2014.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Russian diplomat recalled to Russia, fearing his cover would be blown re: heavy involvement in the 2016 election, including the veterans' pensions ruse
American	Oligarch	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
American	Principal actor	The evil son-in-law so evil he owned a billion dollar building at 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan
American	Company
American	Intelligence Community	Former chief of the DOJ's Counterintelligence & Export Control Section
	Russian Mafia	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
	Politician	Russian Foreign Minister
French	Politician	head of the French far-Right party
Russian	Hacker	Russian hacker who ran the sprawling Kelihos botnet, a massive spam and scam network; indicted by a US grand jury on 4/21/17
Russian
Russian	Oligarch	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
Russian		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”.
Russian	Oligarch	Russian Canadian CEO of developer Talon (Trump Toronto); had no previous experience in real estate or construction
American	Lobbyist	Donald Trump's first campaign manager; succeeded by Paul Manafort.
		Alleged mobster and associate of John Gotti, who is on video with Trump in the 80s at a WrestleMania event
Russian	Oligarch	Russian steel mogul who made $830m in 3 days after the election
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	former Russian FSB agent who informed on Putin's connections to the Russian mafia and was assassinated by polonium-210 poisoning in 2006
Russian
		Ties to the Romneys?!
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	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.
Russian	Company	Russia's second largest oil company after Rosneft, they contracted with Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
American	Civil servant	US Attorney General under Barack Obama
American	Journalist	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.
	Lawyer	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Division of the GRU that carried out the second half of the Russian attack on our democracy -- cyber intrusions and hacking of stolen materials from the Clinton campaign, disseminated by WikiLeaks
American	Principal actor
American	Intelligence Community	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.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled accouunt created in May 2016 to promote IRA-organized rallies in support of the Trump Campaign
American	Politician
American	Intelligence Community	Deputy Nartional Security Advisor under Mike Flynn. Asked to step down by HR McMaster.
American	Lawyer	White House counsel from XXXX-XXXX
American	Politician
American	Company	Social media and blogging community frequented by the Russians during their efforts at sowing propaganda and discord during the American 2016 Presidential election.
Russian	Politician	Russian Prime Minister
American	Oligarch
American	Principal actor	Shadowy billionaire Trump backer and donor who also backs Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and John Bolton.
		Holds Trump debt
British	Foreign Intelligence	British intelligence agency; the rough equivalent of the American CIA.
		Director of the London Academy of Diplomacy who meets with George Papadopoulos in Italy.
	Oligarch	part owner of Novatek who made $1.9b from the stock pop post-Trump
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	GRU cyberunit dedicated to targeting military, politival, governmental, and non-governmental organizations outside of Russia, including the U.S. Separate from this investigation, Unit 26165 was charged by a grad jury for hacking the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the World Doping Agency, and other international sport associations.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	A GRU unit engaged in cyber operations, including assisting in the release of the documents stolen by Unit 26165, the promotion of those releases, and the publication of anti-Clinton content on social media accounts operated by the GRU. This unit also hacked computers belonging to the stater boards of elections, secretaries of state, and U.S. companies supplying software and other technology related to elections.
American	Principal actor	Aggressively anti-immigrant advisor to Trump, co-writing many of his most vitriolic speeches
Belarusian	Russian Mafia	Trump associate, head of the Russian-American chamber of commerce, and one of the sources of the Steele dossier
Russian	Principal actor	Former worker at the Russian troll factory, the Internet Research Agency, who told the Western press what it was like inside the farm.
Russian	Russian Mafia	Notorious mobster
Emirati		The crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
	Lawyer	World's fourth largest offshore law firm, whose files were published as the Panama Papers in a German newspaper
American	Civil servant	Special Counsel at the DOJ, investigating RussiaGate
		Ministry of Internal Affairs; supervises all police, prisons, and "public order militias"
American	Lobbyist	Lebanese-American businessman who lobbies for the UAE, and was at the meeting in the Seychelles with Erik Prince and the Russians
Russian	Activist	Putin critic and activist blogger; has been arrested, charged, & sentenced several times (but recognized as a political prisoner by NGOs)
Russian	Politician	Putin critic and opposition politician who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015 by a member of the Chechen security forces
Russian	Company	Restaurant of Yevgeny Prigozhin that became a favorite of Putin's, netting Mr Prigozhin lucrative contracts for shady operations as "Putin's Chef"
Russian
British	Principal actor	CEO of Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	a forerunner to the KGB under Stalin
American	Lobbyist	Hosted a number of conduits between the Trump campaign and Russian nationals, particularly Russian billionaires and oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
American	Intelligence Community
American	Civil servant	Former Trump aide who made a series of bizarre statements on cable TV before testifying to Robert Mueller's team
American	Politician
American	Media Outlet	Website owned by Jarek Kushner as part of Observer Media
American	Media Outlet	Media company owned by Jared Kushner.
American	Media Personality	American TV host
Ukrainian		Successor ruling party in Ukraine after Victor Yanukovich fled to Moscow and his Party of Regions toppled.
Hungarian	Politician	President of Hungary, noted for his pro-Putin and anti-refugee beliefs
British	Company	Steele's research firm
		dead — Bryan Cohen's father-in-law (brother of Trump's personal lawyer
Russian	Media Outlet	Russia's TV network
		Holds Trump debt
American	Principal actor
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	IRA-controlled Twitter account claiming to be a Texan Trump supporter with 70,000 followers
American	Principal actor	Member of the Trump campaign who has pled guilty in the Robert Mueller investigation and flipped to become a cooperating witness. Will serve jail time.
American	Principal actor	Head of the Trump campaign's digital operation
Ukranian		Ukranian political party run by Victor Yanukovych, the pro-Putin dictator ushered into power by Paul Manafort.
American
American	Principal actor	Helped American Media bury stories unfavorable to Trump leading up to the election -- a campaign contribution violation, not to mention a moral violation
American	Principal actor	Vice President of the United States
Russian	Principal actor	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.
		Fox News counterterrorism analyst & one of Trump's 5 initial national security advisors
American	Civil servant	His stolen emails were one of several tronches of stolen documents released by Wikileaks at strategic moments during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Russian agent who received intelligence information from American energy consultant Carter Page beginning in January 2013
Russian		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.
American	Civil servant	CIA Director who went from praising to condemning Wikileaks
Ukranian	Politician	Ukranian president
Cypriot	Company	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.
American	Civil servant
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	"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.
American	Oligarch	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.
American	Media Outlet
Russian	Activist
Russian	Principal actor
American	Politician	Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
American	Company	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
Russian	Company	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
Russian		Moscow-based entity begun by Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin -- odd, in a country with no gun rights at all.
American	Company	Hosted Donald Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant
Russian		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
American	Lobbyist	Hired by Alfa Bank: a former REagan administration official
American	Intelligence Community	Admiral and Director of the National Security Agency under Obama; one of the 3 who briefed Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American	Politician	Representative (R-CA 48th District) since 2013; dubbed "Putin's favorite Congressman"
Russian		Putin ally implicated in the Panama Papers
Russian	Company	Russia's state oil company
Russian	Media Outlet	Russia's official government newspaper
American	Politician	US Secretary of Commerce and single largest shareholder of the Bank of Cyprus, the famous haven for Russian oligarchs to stash their billions
Russian
		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
Russian	Media Outlet	Russian state-owned news service
Russian	Media Outlet	The Kremlin's new video news agency
Russian	Company	One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions have been lifted by Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
Russian		Russia's sovereign wealth fund
Russian		part of the far-right coalition within Russia seeking to build an international consensus, this group advocates "Christian Orthodox imperial nationalism"
Russian	Politician	Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
American	Politician	Speaker of the House (R-WI) and a Trump defender and denialist
Russian	Oligarch	the “Fertilizer King” — fertilizer billionaire who purchased Trump's Palm Beach mansion for $95 million, but never moved in
American	Oligarch
American	Civil servant
Russian	Russian Mafia	Russian mobster and FBI informant who runs Bayrock, a money-laundering firm designed to hide dirty Russian money in Trump's taxes
Saudi Arabian	Nation-state
Russian	Bank	Russia's largest bank
American	Civil servant	Trump press secretary for all of 10 days
American	Principal actor	Managed the Trump campaign's social media
American	Politician	Top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee overseeing that chamber's Russia investigation
American		Trump's longtime security chief and confidant
American	Lawyer	New York State Attorney General who has a long history of legal cases with Trump
American	Politician	(D-NY) and Sen. Minority Leader
Russian	Oligarch	President of Rosneft at the time Exxon violated Russian sanctions to help protect his property interest
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought ads in support of the Trump Campaign, and had over 130,000 followers at the time it was deactivated in mid-2017
American	Lawyer	Trump's personal lawyer
American	Principal actor	Trump's first US Attorney General, before Bill Barr. He has recused himself from the Russia investigation because of his curious, multi-part memory loss of meetings with Russian agents.
Ukranian	Oligarch	Ukrainian steel magnate & partner at Talon International who is managing Trump Toronto hotel as it goes into default
American		President of the Miss Universe Organization, who reported directly to Trump at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant
Russian		Director of PArtnership Marketing for vKontakte, a Russian social media site, that had communications with the Trump campaign about setting up a profile.
	Company
American	Media Outlet	Conservative broadcasting conglomerate gobbling up local TV stations and forcing them to air canned right-wing footage with each segment.
American		Head of research firm Fusion FPS who commissioned the Christopher Steele dossier.
American	Oligarch	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.
	Lawyer	Law firm retained by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to "whitewash" Victor Yanukovich's imprisonment of his political rival, Yulia Tymochenko, in Ukraine.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook account that organized a pro-Trump rally near Trump Tower in mid-2016
Russian		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.
Russian		Sergei's daughter
American	Civil servant	Head of the State Dept's intelligence bureau under Obama
American		Alleged to have solicited help on the dark web in finding Hillary's "missing" emails from the Russians
American	Company	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
American	Intelligence Community	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.
Polish		Polish workers' party confronting Communism in the late '80s
Russian
		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.
American	Civil servant	Trump's press secretary
Russian	Media Outlet	Russian news wire proffering fake news
Russian	Politician
American	Principal actor	Ex-Facebook security chief
German	Foreign Intelligence	Nickname for the Ministry of State Security in East Germany during the Cold War
British	Foreign Intelligence	Former British MI6 intelligence agent who put together the Steele Dossier on Donald Trump's dealings with Russia
American	Lobbyist	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
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook group
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought Facebook ads in support of Donald Trump
	Media Personality	Works for Sputnik in Russia. Never responded to an official Congressional inquiry.
Russian
Russian	Media Outlet	Russia's largest blogging service via acquisition of LiveJournal from Six Apart
Russian	Principal actor	Putin's disinformation machine
Russian	Intelligence Community	Russian foreign intelligence service
American	Politician	Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee
	Company
Russian	Russian Mafia	organized crime ring based in St. Petersburg w/ties to Putin; led by Gennadiy Petrov and Aleksandr Malyshev
	Lobbyist	GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Twitter account posing as the Tennessee GOP Party.
American		Trump for America, Inc., the business entity formed to handle the Trump transition
American	Principal actor	U.S. Secretary of State and former CEO of Exxon
	Oligarch	23% owner of natural gas company Novatek, who made $1.8b from surges in pro-Russian market following Trump's election
Russian		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.
Russian	Russian Mafia	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.
Russian	Principal actor	Russian central banker, Putin confidant, NRA whisperer, handler of Maria Butina
Russian	Russian Mafia	Ran a Russian-American gambling crime ring out of Trump Tower. Serving 5 years for racketeering.
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	Department within the IRA dedicated to U.S. operations
American	Principal actor
American	Principal actor
American
American	Principal actor
American	Oligarch	Donald Trump's father, who built the family real estate fortune and handed it off to his son to ruin it
American	Principal actor	Daddy's little girl
American	Principal actor
American	Principal actor
American	Principal actor
Russian
American	Company	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
Ukranian	Company	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.
Turkish	Nation-state
Russian	Media Outlet	Independent Russian broadcaster
American	Company
Ukranian	Politician	Ran against Victor Yanukovich in the 2010 Presidentials elections, and was jailed by him under spurious charges following his Paul Manafort-aided win.
		Holds Trump debt
Russian	Foreign Intelligence	An IRA-controlled Facebook account that had over 300,000 followers at the time it was finally deactivated in mid-2017
Russian		Political Party of Russian PResident Vladimir Putin
Russian	Oligarch	Putin-connected oligarch with connections to secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross [tracker]
Russian		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.
American	Company	Provided social media services to the Trump campaign and Michael Flynn
Russian		Russian social network; equivalent analog to Facebook
Russian	Bank	Russian state-owned development bank, under investigation for Russian election interference
	Company	$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
	Bank	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
Russian	Bank	Russia's largest commercial bank; under US and EU sanctions for money laundering
American	Politician	(D-VA) — top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee
	Media Outlet
American	Media Outlet	venerable local paper purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2013
American
American
American	Politician
American	Principal actor
		The House HPSCI committee wants to subpoena them for communication records relating to principals in the Trump campaign
American	Intelligence Community
American	Lobbyist	Undertook Turkey-related work for Michael Flynn
American	Civil servant	Supposed to be a civil servant but often a lobbyist, The White House includes the President and high-level senior staff
	Hacker
Global		umbrella term for Russia's movement to unite an international extreme far-right coalition
American		candidate for the next FBI Director, to replace James Comey
American		Whistleblower from Trump data team Cambridge Analytica who revealed the existence of a formerly secret client: Lukoil, Russia's #2 oil and gas company
Ukranian	Politician	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.
American		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.
American
Russian	Politician	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.
American	Company	Favored propaganda platform for Russian agents used in the cyberattacks against the 2016 election
Russian
		"Young Army" — created in 2015 by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to "encourage patriotism among schoolchildren"
American	Oligarch	CEO of Facebook, whose platform was used by the Russians in their influence campaign against the 2016 U.S. elections
Dutch		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.