He also admitted to helping a Ukrainian oligarch fraudulently buy tickets to Trump's inauguration on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch.
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And Fusion GPS came in to work for the Russian oligarch for Natalia Veselnitskaya, who is the Russian oligarch&aposs lawyer.
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For this to work, calling a racist oligarch a "racist oligarch" would require racist oligarchs to be considered an oppressed class.
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Manafort earned millions working for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party, and also did business with a Russian oligarch and a Ukrainian oligarch.
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This began with advising work for the Russian oligarch and aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska and for the Ukrainian oligarch and steel magnate Rinat Akhmetov.
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Allies of the oligarch who owns the gas company say they welcomed Mr. Shokin's firing, but not because he was actively investigating the company or the oligarch.
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Meet the Russian oligarch who paid Trump's former campaign manager $22010 million Meet the Russian oligarch who paid Trump's former campaign manager $219 million Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch whose name this week was thrown into the Trump administration's unfolding Russia saga, is no stranger to allegations of shady business dealings.
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It&aposs the hypocrisy, as this oligarch is at the center of the Manafort case in many ways and this oligarch wasn&apost mentioned, nor was the connection mentioned.
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To set the record straight, VICE reached out to an oligarch expert, Matt Simonton, and asked if he thought it was derogatory or fair to call Bloomberg an oligarch.
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"The strategic dilemma will be what do you prefer, an oligarch or someone possibly controlled by an oligarch, the puppet or a puppeteer?" said regional analyst and political consultant Radu Magdin.
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I&aposm happy that he was working with a Russian billionaire, the oligarch that he somehow convinced the oligarch to give him $103 million to help save an American being held hostage.
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At the time, Mr. Manafort worked as a political and business consultant to the Ukrainian steel and coal oligarch Rinat L. Akhmetov, as well as the Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska.
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They opened up a criminal case against a Russian oligarch.
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Although there might be with Mueller and that oligarch guy.
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Update: I was refunded for the oligarch hats without comment.
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For one, that wasn't just any oligarch she traveled with.
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The judge also chastising the prosecution over the word "oligarch".
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"Bouvier Affair," a legal dispute between the Russian oligarch Dmitry
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EN+ is owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska.
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And meet the oligarch who helped fund Russia's troll agency.
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Paul Manafort owes the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska $10 million.
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The fund's biggest investor was Mr. Deripaska, the Russian oligarch.
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The same happens when it comes to an oligarch tax.
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Dealings with a Russian oligarch Later, legal filings state, Gates was involved with a failed business venture with Manafort and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Dealings with a Russian oligarch Later, Gates was involved with a failed business venture with Manafort and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to legal filings.
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Read: Who is Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch tied to a $500K payment to Michael Cohen Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, met with a Russian oligarch in Trump Tower 11 days before Trump's inauguration.
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" Rather, "the intent was to change the behaviour of the oligarch.
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He became a celebrity—the most famous Russian oligarch in London.
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But as Britain's most famous oligarch, he is a powerful symbol.
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The gleeful oligarch emerged from jail pledging to overthrow Mr Nazarbayev.
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Rusal is owned by a Putin-connected Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
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The companies are controlled by a Russian oligarch, Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin.
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Igor the Oligarch now has a taste for the posh life.
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Across London, another oligarch, Alisher Usmanov, owns 30 percent of Arsenal.
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A secretive oligarch known as "Putin's cook" is among those indicted.
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What's the difference between a Russian oligarch and an American billionaire?
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Mark Warner's text messages with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch.
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Ever wonder what its like to eat like a Russian oligarch?
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A fourth person, who is another business associate close to Lesin, told BuzzFeed News that Lesin had a falling out with the oligarch but did not know if the oligarch had any involvement in Lesin's death.
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Court documents say that after Patten had a "straw" purchaser buy $50,000 worth of inaguration tickets for the oligarch with money provided by Patten's company, which in turn was reimbursed by the oligarch through the Cypriot account.
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From 2009-2014, Bashneft belonged to Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Kremlin-friendly oligarch.
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Despite the lawsuit, Manafort sought to stay in contact with the oligarch.
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Instead, the new president imprisons the oligarch and goes after his cronies.
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Ironically, it plays on a channel owned by Igor Kolomoisky, an oligarch.
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An oligarch himself, he has hesitated to take tough measures against corruption.
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Nornickel is linked with both Rusal and sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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How it happened: The party's leader, oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, fled the country.
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Most Americans don&apost know who Steele, Ohr, this Russian oligarch, are.
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By all accounts, he arrived expecting the life of an offshore oligarch.
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An oligarch is rumored to have paid for east Ukraine's separatist forces.
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It is not clear if the second oligarch was searched, CNN reported.
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For example, one DOJ investigation in 2014 targeted Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash.
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Then in 2017, Cohen developed a relationship with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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An expatriate oligarch cheats on his wife with their daughter's best friend.
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Cotton quizzes Wray on Steele's ties to Russian oligarch 11:33 a.m.
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The Russian authorities raided the offices of its oligarch owner, Mikhail Prokhorov.
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Navalny said the lavish entertainment amounted to a "bribe" by the oligarch.
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Paul Manafort, Mr Trump's campaign chair, who was deep in debt to a Russian oligarch, shared internal polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, one of his Kiev-based employees with apparent links to both that oligarch and Russian intelligence.
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A private jet linked to a Russian oligarch flew to the U.S. at a key time in the 2016 election A private jet linked to a Russian oligarch flew to the U.S. at a key time in the 2016 election In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
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He has shrugged off his ties to Mr. Kolomoisky as just business and has hammered home the message that while his production company certainly sold television shows to the oligarch, he is not, unlike Mr. Poroshenko, an oligarch himself.
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There's the aforementioned oligarch and former client he was indebted to, Oleg Deripaska.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intermediary of a Russian oligarch and associates of then-U.
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Van der Zwaan is the son-in-law of Russian oligarch German Khan.
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He blames another oligarch, an ex-prime minister serving nine years in prison.
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The oligarch had paid the sum to Patten's firm through a Cypriot account.
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The relationship between Zelendky and Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky has received considerable attention.
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AT&T and a firm tied to a Russian oligarch made similar payments.
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What pushes Bloomberg from just being a rich guy to being an oligarch?
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His father, Aras, is a billionaire oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin.
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Hunter Biden worked with a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
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Kolomoisky and his network, alleging that the oligarch used a range of American
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Many worry about how close he is to a Ukrainian oligarch: Ihor Kolomoisky.
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You have an oligarch who could buy that building, or that soccer team.
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The tickets were given to the oligarch, Kilimnik, another Ukrainian, and Patten himself.
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We know why, of course: money for the institution, PR for the oligarch.
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The unidentified oligarch was one of their biggest benefactors, the charging documents said.
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Mr. Gates likewise told the special counsel that Mr. Manafort believed sharing the polling data with Mr. Kilimnik, who passed it to a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, would help resolve a financial dispute between Mr. Manafort and the Russian oligarch.
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Patten concealed the fact that he had caused $19993,000 from that unidentified oligarch to be used to buy four tickets for the oligarch to attend the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump with Patten in January 2017, according to court records.
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Like a Russian oligarch, his success depends on staying in the government's good favor.
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HANNITY: You know, John Solomon, let me go back to this Russian oligarch story.
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Forbes said that the largest shareholder in that bank is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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The latest attendee to emerge is a man who works for a Russian oligarch.
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The oligarch has denied that he financially supports Zelensky, and indeed rival candidate Tymoshenko.
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Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch with close links to Putin who is under U.S. sanctions.
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Throughout his career, Akhmetshin has represented a range of clients, including a Russian oligarch.
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What does the Russian oligarch or Saudi prince about town get for his money?
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The Associated Press: Sanctioned Russian oligarch linked to Michael Cohen has vast U.S. ties.
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He admitted steering $6900,2628 from a Ukrainian oligarch to the Trump presidential inauguration committee.
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They joked how they can now drink somewhere which isn't owned by an oligarch.
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A Russian oligarch paid Trump an eyebrow-raising $212 million for one Florida property.
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His most recent articles focused on a Slovak oligarch, Marian Kocner, and his companies.
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FINLAND COURT SAYS BANKS NOT OBLIGED TO OFFER SERVICES TO SANCTIONS-HIT RUSSIAN OLIGARCH
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The Aluminum King: Oleg Deripaska Oligarch Oleg Deripaska figures most prominently on the list.
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Giuliani, via Parnas and Igor Fruman, had urged the oligarch to hire the pair.
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"This home will not be attractive to a Russian oligarch," Ms. Quinn said dryly.
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Biden's son, Hunter, worked with a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
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Zelenskiy and the oligarch deny this, and both say their relationship is purely professional.
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He said oligarch is a pejorative term that means someone who wields despotic power.
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Biden's son Hunter worked with a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
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Mr. Patten also attended an unspecified inaugural event with the oligarch, according to prosecutors.
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Finally, there were a set of new developments related to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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There's his former client, the oligarch Oleg Deripaska, to whom Manafort was heavily indebted.
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Together, Garten and Futerfas spoke with Trump Jr., Goldstone, Emin Agalarov, the son of a Russian oligarch, and Ike Kaveladze, a business associate of Agalarov's father, Aras Agalarov, a prominent oligarch and property developer in Russia, in the month before the bombshell report.
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Okay. Bezos may be a vampiric oligarch but a good pun is a good pun.
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First and foremost, I think, is this controversial oligarch by the name of Igor Kolomoisky.
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If an oligarch buys a house, it drives up the prices of smaller properties nearby.
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The third is in the New York Times, and concerns the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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It is far from clear that Mr Zelensky will break from Ukraine's oligarch-dominated past.
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That oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, is a one-time business associate of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
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Agalarov's father is Aras Agalarov, an oligarch who reportedly has close connections to Vladimir Putin.
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Will he continue to tell his oligarch friends to support a retreat into financial isolation?
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Manafort was working for a Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov when he was introduced to Yanukovych.
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OK. You know, we&aposve got this link between Steele, Ohr and the Russia oligarch.
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The company has said the Russian oligarch Vekselberg never "had any contractual relationship" with Cohen.
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However, a source told the newspaper that Cohen and the oligarch had met several times.
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The article names Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch, as one of the Trump campaign's contacts.
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There are Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, and a Russian oligarch whose name everyone pronounces differently.
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Mueller's team also questioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg about payments his firm made to Cohen.
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Mueller's team has, however, made note of Manafort's business ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Did her breakup with a certain Russian oligarch propel her to focus again on career?
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Voronin's son, Oleg, is a principal business partner is Vladimir Plahotniuc, the only Moldovan oligarch.
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Through the television studio, Mr. Zelensky has also been a business partner with the oligarch.
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By the time his phone rang on board Thunder B, the oligarch was well prepared.
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Vollin Holdings, an investment firm owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov, also backed the investment.
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And yes, the production has been handsomely bankrolled by the Russian telecom oligarch Sergey Adonyev.
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John Solomon: Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch.
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A video alleged Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko took a bribe from oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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It was from Aras Agalarov, the Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch whose son helped arrange the meeting.
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He was heavily indebted to a Russian oligarch and secretly contacted him during the campaign.
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" Prosecutors also said that Patten and his Russian associate asked the oligarch whether their company could file under FARA, and the oligarch "said in substance that he did not want them to register now, but they could eventually do so at an unspecified future date.
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According to the report, they said, Lesin fell out with a powerful oligarch close to Putin.
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One of them — Columbus Nova LLC — is linked to a firm owned by a Russian oligarch.
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That&aposs when they were running to that Russian oligarch to try to get him involved.
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The only problem was the cash got intermingled with Russian oligarch funds and hush money payments.
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The oligarch still holds 45 percent of En+ but only 35 percent of the voting rights.
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After all, the oligarch-on-the-run has a history of overpaying for Trump-adjacent lots.
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It also says the oligarch had no role in the American firm's decision to hire Cohen.
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America forced a Russian oligarch to surrender control of a nationally significant company—an unsettling precedent.
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The Times reports that it is unclear whether the FBI aims to interview the Russian oligarch.
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So once the oligarch has moved into London's smartest area, the purveyors of posh will descend.
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In doing so, she took on Ihor Kolomoisky, the oligarch who was the bank's main owner.
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The oligarch left Ukraine after PrivatBank, which he owned and, the authorities say, looted, was nationalized.
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READ: Who is Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch tied to a $500K payment to Michael Cohen?
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No, but ask yourself this: When has the phrase 'Russian oligarch' ever been a good thing?
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In 2015, he began working for a Romanian oligarch, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was facing corruption charges.
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"We know corrupt Ukrainian oligarch laundered $3 million to the Biden Family," Giuliani tweeted last month.
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One of these investigations was a probe into Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma.
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Now, Congress can channel some of its disappointment with the Oligarch List into compelling more disclosure.
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Only one oligarch publicly backed the protesters at Maidan: Petro Poroshenko, known as the Chocolate King.
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In 85033, Trump teamed up with Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov to run the Miss Universe Pageant.
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Though he campaigned as a candidate of (white) workers, he has governed as a shameless oligarch.
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Read: Who is Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch tied to a $500k Payment to Michael Cohen?
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Intrater is the American cousin of Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch whose company is under US sanctions.
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Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash before a public hearing at the Supreme Court in Vienna on June 25.
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His support has been rising despite his lack of money or access to the oligarch-controlled media.
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The oligarch came to power in 2014 after a popular uprising ousted his corrupt predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych.
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Time-consuming stopovers in Kiev are bad for passengers but good for Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire oligarch.
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Moldova's governing Democratic Party, backed by Vladimir Plahotniuc, an oligarch, loudly proclaims the country's pro-European orientation.
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He is a wealthy oligarch and, many believe, by far the most powerful man in the country.
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An oligarch raised in a Gucci-lined platinum Bugatti would probably think it was a bit much.
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Both sets of cases have a common thread: Mukhtar Ablyazov, an oligarch who fled Kazakhstan in 2009.
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Should you even have asked the oligarch for tens of millions of dollars and for his services?
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But she is also facing questions about her husband's financial ties to wealthy Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
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Russia Yevgeny Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch dubbed "chef" to President Vladimir Putin by the Russian press.
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They have general and limited partners, one of whom is Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, company officials confirmed.
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One of the largest single donors was Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of the Russian oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin.
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Poroshenko, elected that June, fired Kolomoisky, who explained his removal as an imbalance of the oligarch system.
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In the United States and other Western countries, Poroshenko has frequently been viewed as a benevolent oligarch.
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The "Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100" is a wild-eyed concept aimed at the 22nd century oligarch.
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Columbus Nova, a U.S. investment firm with ties to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, paid Cohen around $500,000.
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He is a U.S.-based representative of Azerbaijani oligarch Aras Agalarov's real estate firm, the Crocus Group.
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And she found love with Vladislav Doronin, the Russian oligarch, said to be worth around $1 billion.
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Don't forget Wilbur Ross for secretary of commerce, who has big dealings with Putin oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Mr. Zelensky is inexperienced, politically amorphous and thought to have ties to the oligarch Ihor V. Kolomoisky.
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It is run by Andrei A. Guryev, the scion to one of the country's wealthiest oligarch families.
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"In this way, the allies have become the slaves of the Athenian people," the Old Oligarch charged.
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" Many of the negative comments specifically called out Bloomberg for his wealth — labeling him as an "oligarch.
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Mr. Manafort has denied that his work for the oligarch was aimed at aiding the Russian government.
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In fact, a probe into one of the company's oligarch owners had been dormant for some time.
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In exchange, two Republican lawyers tried unsuccessfully to convince Barr to drop criminal charges against the oligarch.
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" In the past week, two Bloomberg offices in Ohio were defaced with the spray-painted words "oligarch.
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Kilimnik became a key contact in Kiev, where Manafort was working for Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest oligarch.
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Zlochevsky's representatives celebrated, using the deal to claim that the oligarch no longer had any criminal liability.
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One student asked whether I had any advice on how to build an oligarch fortune in Russia.
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The second, and more important, is just how close he is to a Ukrainian oligarch: Igor Kolomoisky.
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WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on Russia and on the oligarch, arguing that he had to make painful concessions to get the sanctions lifted.
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Among the village's funders are a former pro-Russian Ukrainian presidential candidate, a notorious Kazakh oligarch — and Fruman.
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In 2013, Boris Berezovsky, then a Russian oligarch, died on a bathroom floor in his home outside London.
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Six years ago Mr Abramovich was unsuccessfully sued by a fellow oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, for breach of contract.
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That&aposs why they were running to that Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to try to get him involved.
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Peskov told reporters on a conference call that the so-called "oligarch list" could hardly be called positive.
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They used Steele, friend of the Russian oligarch, his dirty dossier, that even he doesn&apost stand by.
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So now, Tom, you get all this information about the oligarch and Christopher Steele, what is that about?
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It's funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and restaurateur with close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
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We published an oligarch designation recently and the secretary of the Treasury said further action would be taken.
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The government's displeasure with RBC's editorial policy was no secret to the paper's owner, the oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov.
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Other reports have detailed similar efforts between Trump and Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch close to Putin.
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Heffernan and Mr. Quinn), whose vessel and very lives are imperiled by a satanic oligarch, Nico (Mr. Gleeson).
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CNN reported Wednesday that Manafort intended for Kilimnik to give the polls to Akhmetov and another Ukrainian oligarch.
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The U.S. Treasury Department on Sunday officially lifted sanctions on businesses tied to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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In 2004, Ukrainians flooded to the streets in the country's Orange Revolution, and broke up the oligarch network.
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The intended message is that no oligarch can escape economic punishment for involvement in the country's alleged transgressions.
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My lackluster soccer club, Chelsea, got a Russian oligarch as owner and, with his billions, started winning trophies.
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The two men had previously discussed Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, but it also may have referred to Trump.
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She works for a Russian oligarch known as "Putin's chef" who was charged in the 2016 election plot.
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Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire oligarch, paid $95 million for Mr. Trump's oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Columbus Nova LLC, a company tied to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, paid Cohen at least $23,22017 last year.
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Scholars are uncertain of the date of the "Old Oligarch" text (originally attributed mistakenly to Xenophon of Athens).
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The oligarch returned from self-imposed exile as soon as Mr. Zelensky, his protégé, took office in May.
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It's possible that a Ukrainian oligarch thought they had identified a good way to influence the American administration.
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Last month, the administration characterized the move as tough on the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, above, and on Russia.
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From that moment on, Putin became the biggest oligarch in Russia and the richest man in the world.
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In his video, Navalny revealed that the un-named oligarch in the book was Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska.
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WASHINGTON — In November, flamboyant oligarch Donald Trump was elected to be the next president of the United States.
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One oligarch complained of his grandchild being identified as a politically exposed person by a bank in Britain.
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Billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska Kostya came up with a series of possible projects throughout the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Africa—one in Kazakhstan, another in Guinea—each of which I would sketch out in concept form, for consideration by such funders, Kostya told me, as Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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According to the Associated Press, Manafort signed a contract in 2006 with Russian oligarch and Putin friend Oleg Deripaska.
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To an oligarch, Russia isn't an enemy of America; it's a model, it's what America should aspire to be.
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Details: Facebook says the accounts were linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin.
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What if it was a borderline case when it came to vetting—say, an oligarch with a chequered past?
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Devon Archer is actually American, so no, this is not an instance of Biden golfing with a Ukrainian oligarch.
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The video goes viral, and a local oligarch-prime minister backs him in the hope of gaining a puppet.
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MACCALLUM: You know, there&aposs one quote from him saying to one of his Russian clients, an oligarch, Deripaska.
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Its sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his Rusal aluminium empire sent the aluminium price soaring in April.
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Did the FSB turn a hacking group which then discovered something they really shouldn't have about a powerful oligarch?
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Poroshenko has accused Zelensky of being the puppet of the owner of 1+1, an oligarch called Ihor Kolomoisky.
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Formally Mr Avakov is in coalition with Mr Poroshenko, but in fact he views him as a rival oligarch.
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They go to a Russian oligarch who they had worked with before on getting Bob Levinson out of Iran.
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And, meanwhile, we are also learning new details about Christopher Steele and his shady ties to a Russian oligarch.
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The man courting the Russian oligarch for money was Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI, now, since fired.
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In a series of tweets last week, he called Nihalani an "oligarch" and compared India to reclusive North Korea.
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A DECADE ago the Russian government snatched Yukos from its oligarch owners, then bankrupted it and broke it up.
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Andrew Intrater Intrater is the head of investment firm Columbus Nova and has ties to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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He was recently named an independent director at EN+, a business with ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. 22019.
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It also mentions another unnamed oligarch that Manafort worked with to discuss an unspecified New York real estate transaction.
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It reflects the best intentions, and the bafflingly broad interests, of an educated, turn-of-the-century regional oligarch.
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And when they were working for pro-Kremlin clients, McCain twice met with a Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska.
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Roughly a decade ago, Manafort also provided Russian oligarch Deripaska with investment and consulting services before their relationship soured.
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One of the tickets was for Kostya and another was for Serhiy Lyovochkin, a Ukrainian oligarch and opposition leader.
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Still, the Bank of Utah executives were surprised to learn that they had aided Mr. Mikhelson, the Russian oligarch.
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The second, and more important, question is how close his ties to a Ukrainian oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky, really are.
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Manafort has ties to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin.
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But in Ukraine, he's remade himself as an anti-oligarch rabble rouser, and, more recently, an opponent to Poroshenko.
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The first place he should look for new revenue streams was among his fabulously wealthy oligarch cronies, opponents said.
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Mr. Manafort did business with Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, before a dispute over money ended the relationship.
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Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, met with a Russian oligarch in Trump Tower 11 days before Trump's inauguration.
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But when their family members strike lucrative deals with a foreign government or oligarch, the reporting requirements are vague.
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Two institutions accepted large donations from an oligarch whose company had been placed under sanctions by the American government.
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Poroshenko has painted Zelenskiy as a puppet of a powerful oligarch on whose channel Zelenskiy airs his comedy shows.
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Russneft is part of a group of companies controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev and members of his family.
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What do you think of Bloomberg's campaign saying that people who call him an oligarch are employing " hateful rhetoric "?
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Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and another long-standing 4chan boogeyman, is on the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board.
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His name is Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as "Putin's chef," an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Putin.
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Vekselberg is an oligarch -- with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin -- who is under US sanctions regarding election interference.
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Waters separately pressed Mnuchin on his recent decision to lift sanctions on companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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One of Rusal's major shareholders, SUAL Partners Limited, was founded by Mr. Blavatnik and the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Manafort asked for that message to be relayed to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin.
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But in Ukraine, he's remade himself as an anti-oligarch populist, and an opponent to Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko.
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The tickets were given to the oligarch, another Ukrainian, Patten and the Russian national, according to the charging documents.
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The model partied on the boat with Derek Blasberg and Dasha Zhukova, the wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
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If you were wondering how Vladimir Putin's "mafia state" was involved in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, look no further than the Ukrainian oligarch wanted by the US. Dmytro Firtash is usually described as a Ukrainian oligarch with admitted ties to organized crime, but he is much more than that.
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" The revelations: N.Y. Times: "AT&T and an Oligarch ... A shell company that [Trump lawyer] Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business before the Trump administration.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, also has been working for the legal team of a Ukrainian oligarch who faces bribery charges in the United States, according to attorneys for the businessmen and the oligarch.
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It has also prompted an angry response from Alisher Usmanov, an oligarch, who is now suing Mr Navalny for defamation.
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Manafort has longstanding ties to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin.
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Trump earned nearly $100 million when he sold a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2008.
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"Instagram decided to comply with Russian illegal censorship requests and deleted some content about oligarch Deripaska," Navalny tweeted on Thursday.
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Manafort reportedly worked with him during the election to make friends with a Russian oligarch who has ties to Putin.
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The oligarch later fell out with the Kremlin and was put under house arrest leading to another nationalization of Bashneft.
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Patten was allegedly paid by an unidentified Russian oligarch, referred to as "Foreigner B," via a bank account in Cyprus.
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Three of the sources said that the report described the killers as Russian state security agents moonlighting for the oligarch.
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He is a new face himself, but he actually does have some baggage and this oligarch is part of that.
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He indicted 13 Russian employees, including Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the operation's financier.
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They needed to find a way to reach Zelensky, and they set their sights on the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
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But there is no evidence he did so to benefit Hunter Biden or the oligarch who owns Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky.
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However, the broader sanctions threat against Rusal, a by-product of the sanctions against its oligarch owner Oleg Deripaska, remains.
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The flag carrier is owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch who has near total control of the country's aviation sector.
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And Steele even pressed Bruce Ohr to help rectify the oligarch&aposs status and after he was banned, guess what?
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It turns out that people associated with that firm were actually working to go to bat for a Russian oligarch.
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A Russian oligarch, a top Russian government official, and a high-end escort take a trip together on a yacht.
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The owner of the building, according to Ukrainian media accounts, is Ivan Fursin, the partner of mega-oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
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Both say no undue influence is being exerted by the oligarch, whose businesses range from banking and energy to aviation.
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It was built for Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch, but sold to Farkhad Akhmedov, an Azeri-born billionaire, in 2014.
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The Ukrainian oligarch behind Burisma should have been investigated, Kent said, but nobody on the U.S. side was arguing otherwise.
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The report states that Cohen's account received roughly $500,000 in payments from a company linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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As Mr. Jones has pointed out in the past, there's an oligarch out there for every astronomically priced specialty item.
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This includes Torshin and a billionaire oligarch who bankrolled some of her projects and has reported ties to Russian intelligence.
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The administration's current plan is to ease sanctions on the three businesses tied to the Oligarch — Rusal, EN+ and EuroSibEnergo.
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"Oh, and Alexander Lebedev came, and a whole host of Russian luminaries," Abrahmsohn told Insider, referring to the Russian oligarch.
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Russia's second-largest bank said it has halted lending to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska following U.S. sanctions against the oligarch.
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That company's largest investor is Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, and its fund manager is also Russian, according to the outlet.
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The charges are related to the work Manafort and Gates did on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Yanukovych.
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READ: The U.S. just sanctioned the oligarch who married Putin's daughter Moscow's MOEX index fell over 9 percent on Wednesday.
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This time it was to work for oligarch Petro Poroshenko, who was poised to become Ukraine's next post-revolutionary president.
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"Almost no paths seem definitively closed to her, not even the path of marrying an oligarch," Rooney writes, of Marianne.
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Lubov Chernukhin, who was the largest single donor to the campaign, is the wife of the Russian oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin.
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In the end, the American businessman balked over concerns about working with an indicted oligarch, and ultimately declined the offer.
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A high-end escort from Belarus, who says she was the mistress of a powerful Russian oligarch, flees to Thailand.
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The oligarch has called since the election for "odious individuals" he did not name to be removed from the bank.
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CNN has reported that investigators for the special counsel stopped an unnamed Russian oligarch at a New York-area airport.
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"It turns out that the oligarch Deripaska has not only a pocket court but a whole pocket town," he said.
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That's something that's much harder for a would-be oligarch to buy — even if they already own a media outlet.
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He met with a Russian oligarch — who naturally was a chum of Vladimir Putin — in the Seychelles in January 2017.
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Liwet Holding is controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and BigPoint Holding is the vehicle of Swiss billionaire Martin Haefner.
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Blinded by a compulsion to become the first American oligarch, Mr. Trump cannot see how expertly he is being played.
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Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and friend of the Clintons, is a member of the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board.
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In that case, anybody who participates in the system is an oligarch, if they're holding power in an oligarchic regime.
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Had a team of Russian hackers been tasked with spying on some Russian oligarch on behalf of their intelligence taskmasters?
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About a decade earlier, Mr. Manafort also worked for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Mr. Putin.
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The Second-Generation Oligarch: Igor Rotenberg The Treasury Department also designated Igor Rotenberg, another business leader with an influential father.
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In August, Mr. Duterte attacked a billionaire casino magnate, Roberto Ongpin, as an oligarch and publicly promised to destroy him.
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It was the country's first independent news network, run without the backing of an oligarch or interference from the state.
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Parnas' connections include an unnamed Ukrainian "oligarch" living in Vienna and fighting extradition to the United States, according to prosecutors.
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One of the deals Mr. Clayton worked on for TeliaSonera, for example, involved another company controlled by a Russian oligarch.
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Utkin was once head of security for a Russian oligarch called Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has close ties to the Kremlin.
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The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and companies he controlled.
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Prosecutors did not identify the American who purchased the tickets, the oligarch or Mr. Patten's Russian business partner by name.
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The indictment alleges that the firm is controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch known as President Vladimir Putin's chef.
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Sam Patten, a lobbyist, has pleaded guilty to illegally helping a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch buy inauguration tickets for $50,000.
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It's also worth noting that Manafort was heavily indebted to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whom he had once worked for.
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The Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky sued Forbes magazine in 2000 after it characterized him as a thug and a crook.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, also has been working for the legal team of a Ukrainian oligarch who faces bribery charges in the United States, according to attorneys for the businessmen and the oligarch.
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The colorful and complicated Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, 67, was found hanged at his mansion outside London on March 23, 2013.
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"An oligarch takes a top government official on a ride on his own yacht—that's a bribe," he said on YouTube.
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Again, this doesn't start with the election; it starts with Russian oligarch money pouring into Trump's real estate and casino businesses.
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He was communicating with at least one, Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin, while working for Mr Trump.
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The other main candidate, Miyegombyn Enkhbold of the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), is, he says, "not a businessman, but an oligarch".
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Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch under American sanctions since April, owns 9% of the Bank of Cyprus, the country's largest bank.
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In 2017, the "Oligarch Index" of Trump's favored companies rose 20%, but trailed the S&P 500's gain of 343%.
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Why would ask for millions of dollars from a Russian oligarch, banned from the United States, to fund and FBI operation?
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There's Aras Agalarov, the real estate oligarch, and his son, Emin, who helped set up the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
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In March journalists of Le Monde battled to prevent the inscrutable Czech oligarch from taking control of the prestigious French daily.
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Sirotkin, a rookie this year, has come through the SMP Racing young driver program set up by Russian oligarch Boris Rotenberg.
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Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch indicted by a U.S. court in 2013 on bribery and other charges, is on the list.
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Michael Cohen's attorney, Steve Ryan, won't discuss the $22017,22018 Michael Avenatti says Cohen received from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg in 24.
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There was also the dramatic potential of isolating a group of relative strangers on a boat captained by an enigmatic oligarch.
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The company is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, who is known as "Putin's chef" over his proximity to Putin.
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Columbus Nova is closely tied to Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch who is himself closely linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Meanwhile, Moscow is notorious for presiding over an opaque, corrupt and oligarch-dominated economy that gets low marks from freedom watchers.
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On July 6, 2011, the Summer Palace was finally sold for £36 million ($57 million) to an unnamed eastern European oligarch.
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Among Manafort's clients were Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and other mega-wealthy Russians with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Patten previously admitted to procuring Trump inauguration tickets illegally for a Ukrainian oligarch and a Russian closely associated with Paul Manafort.
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He also admitted to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for the Ukrainian opposition party, which including a prominent oligarch.
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Hyperloop previously secured funding from Russia's sovereign fund RDIF and Caspian VC Partners, a fund run by Russian oligarch Ziyavudin Magomedov.
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The other oligarch was Rinat Akhmetov, who with estimated assets of more than $12 billion was the richest man in Ukraine.
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But Mr. Zelensky's close ties to an influential oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, have raised suspicions that he might be susceptible to pressure.
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It led Mr. Zelensky into the orbit of Mr. Kolomoisky, an oligarch accused of looting billions from a major Ukrainian bank.
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But suspicions that the oligarch has had links to organized crime have denied him a visa to enter the United States.
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"Instagram decided to comply with Russian illegal censorship requests and deleted some content about oligarch Deripaska," Mr. Navalny said on Twitter.
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In 2017 Moldova's oligarch-run government switched the country to a Hungarian-style mix of single-party districts and proportional representation.
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According to Joorabchian's version of events, he sued the oligarch over the sale before they agreed to settle out of court.
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And when the oligarch fell out of favor with Putin and fled to Britain, the Chechen crime lord kept in touch.
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As always, the oligarch perked up at the prospect of an adventure and flung open his office door with a flourish.
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Sibur's owners include Putin's son-in-law and a Russian oligarch subject to American sanctions, according to The New York Times.
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"He will be in power as long as he can," says Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch infamously jailed by Putin in 2100.
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Bloomberg's campaign manager called this "derogatory language" and "an act of hate," which, honestly, is exactly something an oligarch would say.
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Take Mr. Bloomberg's brazen spending, which has prompted claims that he's an oligarch trying to bypass democracy by buying the presidency.
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At the time, his younger son, Hunter Biden, worked for a Ukrainian oligarch who had come under scrutiny by the prosecutor.
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An oligarch, made fabulously wealthy through the privatization of state assets, breaks ranks, becoming a critic of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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He has called Mendoza a thief, a coward, a hypocrite, a traitor, a bandit, an oligarch, and a long-haired devil.
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He's an oligarch and George W. Bush supporter trying to buy this election and it appears that Bernie welcomes his hatred.
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Clapper also responded to a Washington Post report that Manafort offered to brief a top Russian oligarch on the Trump campaign.
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The prosecutor was investigating a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch, and Hunter Biden sat on the company's board.
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The situation stems from Hunter Biden's work with Burisma Holdings, a company owned by a controversial and possibly corrupt Ukrainian oligarch.
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Biden's son served on the board of a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch while Biden was vice president.
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The upcoming Czech elections are also likely to produce a populist party led by an oligarch as the senior government party.
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The Trump administration announced last month that it was lifting sanctions against several companies controlled by an influential oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
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Patten also admits to helping his Ukrainian oligarch client get around the prohibition on foreign donations to Donald Trump's inauguration committee.
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Kilimnik also acted as an intermediary between Manafort and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Indeed, one Russian oligarch sanctioned in 2014, Arkady Rotenberg, later won a Russian government contract to build a bridge between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, while a second Russian oligarch, Gennady Timchenko, had a net worth of $85033 billion in 2017, according to Forbes, which was $2 billion higher than 2013, the year before he was sanctioned.
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According to a Friday filing with Justice Department, Crowley is now lobbying for Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and former Ukrainian politician.
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One concern is Zelenskiy's ties to oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, the former owner of Ukraine's biggest lender PrivatBank, which was nationalized in 2016.
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Navalny claimed in his video that the posts showed the close relationship between a high-ranking government official and a powerful oligarch.
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Successive Ukrainian governments have sought to attract Western investors as a counterbalance to Russian interference and oligarch control of key Ukrainian companies.
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Already, one oligarch had paid for a fleet of ambulances, and another had provided new apartments to the families of Ukrainian servicemen.
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That oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, claims they urged him to help arrange a meeting between Giuliani and Zelensky — and that he didn't agree.
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Much to my surprise, Bondarchuk was interested; not only might he produce the show, he would also play the oligarch character himself.
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EVERY TIME a high-powered Russian official, oligarch or governor gets arrested, the same questions surface: why him, why now, who's next?
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Last September he circulated a drone-shot video showing Prime Minister Medvedev's vast, luxurious estate - allegedly a gift from an admiring oligarch.
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Indeed, the two strongmen share much in terms of their authoritarian style of governance, oligarch-led economies, and exploitation of national populism.
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He says client Emin Agalarov, a Russian singer and the son of an oligarch, called him wanting him to arrange the meeting.
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The operation was mainly run from a group called the Internet Research Agency and financed by oligarch and Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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It's all glass and metal, with huge windows, minimalist furniture, and it's owned by a Russian oligarch, because of course it is.
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Foz reportedly also has a business connection with the sanctioned oligarch Muhammad Hamsho, as well as Damascus Cham Holding, a government entity.
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Over time, the F.B.I. employed an unusual cast of characters to search for Mr. Levinson, including a billionaire Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
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LONDON/PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They were supposed to be the toughest sanctions the United States had ever imposed on a Russian oligarch.
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Stormy Daniels's attorney Michael Avenatti first alleged earlier this month that Cohen had received about $500,000 from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's company.
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He is a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin and a former business partner of Donald Trump's erstwhile campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
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A Russian businessman and associate of a Russian oligarch critical of Vladimir Putin was reportedly found dead at the age of 69.
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Keeping the occasional oligarch from vacationing in Disneyland while continuing to prop up the Russian hydrocarbon economy through purchases is not enough.
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The Finance Ministry will take over PrivatBank, which is part-owned by one of Ukraine's richest men, the powerful oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
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These payments are in the news because a firm tied to a Russian oligarch also reportedly paid Essential Consultants for its services.
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The Moldovan oligarch has managed to convince both Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. State Department that he is their man.
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"Usmanov looks set to end the Putin era as the 'most improved' oligarch over the past eight years," one source told Kroll.
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Mr. Shmyhal had previously worked as an executive in the coal and electrical power company of a prominent Ukrainian oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov.
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He also had a business relationship with Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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Deripaska, remember, is the oligarch that the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort offered to brief privately on the American presidential campaign.
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Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records.
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According to people who knew him at work, before this event he'd become fixated on an oligarch who'd lost interest in him.
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Among those payments was a $500,000 transaction from Columbus Nova, which has ties to a company belonging to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Meanwhile, the Treasury Department is pushing to end sanctions against companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch closely tied to Mr. Putin.
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A handful of mega-galleries, and their oligarch-artists, hold the purse-strings and power, making price tags matter more than profundity.
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The indictment accuses him of having been an unregistered foreign agent for another Putin-aligned oligarch, the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
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Mr Zlochevsky, who had fled Ukraine, also wanted leverage in his dealings with Petro Poroshenko, the oligarch elected president in May 2015.
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Last year, Washington lobbyist Sam Patten got three years probation in part for helping a Ukrainian oligarch purchase inaugural tickets for $50,000.
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Mr. Intrater, an American private equity executive whose cousin and largest client is a Russian oligarch, was looking for new investment opportunities.
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I saw one take that said that calling him an oligarch was an attempt to "orientalize" him, the comparison being Russian oligarchs.
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It would be normal for Ukraine to investigate a Ukrainian company, whose oligarch owner had his own history with allegations of corruption.
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But its oligarch owner, Vladimir Potanin, has just been put on notice, as have all the powerful industrialists surrounding the Putin administration.
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Channel One's main shareholder, Boris Berezovsky, a rapacious oligarch with interests in everything from oil to automobiles, proposed that Ernst take over.
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Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch dubbed "chef" to Putin, controlled a firm that funded the Internet Research Agency, according to the Mueller indictment.
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Latvian politician and oligarch Lembergs and four entities that he owns or controls were slapped with a U.S. sanction earlier this week.
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"The activity was undertaken to promote the interests of [the oligarch] and Opposition Bloc to influence United States policy," the document said.
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" Craig said in his video statement that the third party was Victor Pinchuk, a Ukranian oligarch whom Craig described as "pro-Western.
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Manafort has known ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate who is routinely referred to in the media as an oligarch.
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The firm has represented Russian interests in the past, including working for a Russian oligarch and a contractor of the Russian government.
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Bolton's disclosure also listed payments, totalling a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, from a foundation controlled by Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch.
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The team's owner, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, is a Russian oligarch, and its payroll, about $58.7 million, is the lowest in the league.
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Russia Insider is allegedly partially funded by the sanctioned oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, one of the chief supporters of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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While testifying, he attempted to hide his connections to the Ukrainian oligarch and the Russian national with whom he worked, prosecutors said.
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In 2015, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska claimed he was owed $19 million by Manafort and his partners regarding a Ukrainian business investment.
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When the business partners worked in Ukraine, Mr. Gates flew to Moscow for meetings with associates of a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
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He would also be sued by a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, to recover millions after a business deal with Manafort went south.
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The oligarch sent $50,000 to Patten's company, and then he gave that money to a US citizen, who bought the four tickets.
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One is with Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and politician who liaised with an unnamed Team Trump member about US-Russia relations.
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A prominent example: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oligarch and Putin opponent, spent 10 years in prison on charges many believe were politically motivated.
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But his relationship with Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, included financial debt — which Deripaska wound up pursuing in the courts, and Manafort has denied.
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Since the United States imposed sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and United Company Rusal on April 6, aluminium has been in turmoil.
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The woman, based in St Petersburg, is said to be the accountant for a disinformation project backed by a pro-Putin Russian oligarch.
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Giuliani also suggested that Manafort may have been motivated by his own financial agenda; he owed millions of dollars to a Russian oligarch.
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He is surrounded by a chaotic coterie of racists and oligarch-worshipping lobbyists who can't manage their way out of a paper bag.
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The oligarch, Deripaska, filed suit last week in a regional court to have the YouTube and Instagram posts blocked, winning a preliminary injunction.
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Aras Agalarov is a Russian oligarch close to Putin who joined the elder Trump in staging the 2013 Miss Universe contest in Moscow.
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It might be "helpful to the Sanders campaign", the writer speculates, that "an oligarch-owned newspaper bashing your every proposal at every turn".
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The target market was rich, but not oligarch-level rich, one salesman told me, with the ultra-rich getting their yachts custom-made.
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The particulars of each seastead's political system should be determined by its inhabitants—or an oligarch, if that's the way it turns out.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned the Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, about the payments, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Things seemed to be looking up in May 2014 with the election of Mr. Poroshenko, an oligarch who billed himself as a reformer.
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According to Reuters, the loan reveals closer links than previously known between Manafort and the Russian oligarch who has ties to the Kremlin.
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It's conceivable Putin was referencing Ihor Kolomoisky — a Ukrainian oligarch who owned the TV station that aired the show that made Zelensky famous.
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Manafort was connected to Ukrainian politician Serhiy Lyovochkin and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, among others, and received at least $60 million for his work.
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Last week, he released financial information revealing that Cohen took half a million dollars from a company with ties to a Russian oligarch.
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It all feels like the kind of place a clichéd Russian oligarch would pay too much for — except that the Russians aren't coming.
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Manafort allegedly was introduced to clients in Ukraine via politicians and businessmen aligned to Russian President Vladimir Putin, including Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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One of the people slapped with sanctions was oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire who ran Russian aluminum company Rusal, which was also sanctioned.
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"ANS was the only TV channel which did not belong to any oligarch in the country," Azer Gasymov, an independent analyst, told Reuters.
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An earlier version of this article referred to news reports that a Russian oligarch used family members to invest in property in London.
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He also once disguised himself as a deliveryman with a large floral bouquet to get into a mansion owned by a Russian oligarch.
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It is unclear how the administration will define who is considered an oligarch, and appearing on the list does not carry immediate penalties.
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Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager, was reaching out to a Russian oligarch to offer inside information on the campaign while working for Trump.
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The lawsuit follows a contentious decision by the Trump administration to lift sanctions against some businesses of another Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska.
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McKinsey quickly became a favorite of Mr. Yanukovych's successor, Petro O. Poroshenko, an oligarch known as "the chocolate king" for his confectionary business.
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And a Russian oligarch was able to sidestep regulations to register his jet in the U.S., with the help of a Utah bank.
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Separately, Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, has been lobbying Washington to save his companies from Trump administration sanctions.
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Unless you are a business or government oligarch who can manipulate the levers of state power, the country almost never belongs to you.
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We already knew that Manafort offered private briefings about the campaign to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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Mr. Manafort had business dealings with Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who has close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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Indeed, Trump has attempted to tailor foreign policy for personal family financial gain, bringing the word "oligarch" and the name Putin to mind.
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Meanwhile, the Democrats threaten to undermine their own anti-corruption stance if they, like the GOP, would have an oligarch control their party.
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Though he had had stayed relatively quiet immediately after Litvinenko's slaying, by the spring the oligarch was ready to launch his next broadside.
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The United States announced in December its intention to lift the sanctions on Rusal and other Russian companies linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Latvian politician and oligarch Lembergs and four entities that he owns or controls were hit with U.S. sanctions this week on corruption allegations.
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The president, who ran on an anti-corruption platform, has had to fend off allegations that he was a tool of the oligarch.
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Meanwhile, the eighth person who attended a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. was identified as an emissary of a Russian oligarch.
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Independent anticorruption groups say the March raid was related to accusations of impropriety over refinancing deals with failing, oligarch-controlled lenders, like PrivatBank.
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The Donetsk rebel leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko suggested that his enterprises would instead be given to Sergey Kurchenko, former President Viktor Yanukovych's favorite oligarch.
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Many will assume that this type of illegal activity, like reports of a sanctioned oligarch owning a mansion in Washington is mostly benign.
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" As the Russian oligarch moves through the London streets in his luxury Maybach, we get: "Sloane Street, its familiar shops—Hermès, Ermenegildo Zegna.
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Olivier was careful of what he said to the point of parsimony; I spent my words like an oligarch with a terminal disease.
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One of the people slapped with sanctions was oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire who ran Russian aluminum giant Rusal, which was also sanctioned.
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According to Bloomberg, diGenova and Toensing were paid $2628 million by a Ukrainian oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, to find negative information on the Bidens.
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"I figured that if Vladimir Putin lived in the tower every oligarch in Russia would want to buy an apartment there," Sater said.
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Critics accuse Zelenskiy of having an unhealthily close working relationship with a powerful oligarch called Ihor Kolomoisky, whose TV channel broadcasts his comedy shows.
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According to our sources, Steele's report says Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The separatists responded by seizing control of all of the coal mines and steel and chemical plants owned by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest oligarch.
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Critics accuse Zelenskiy of having an unhealthily close working relationship with a powerful oligarch called Ihor Kolomoisky, whose TV channel broadcasts his comedy shows.
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And they had jetted to Israel to meet with a powerful Ukrainian oligarch accused of stealing billions from one of the country's largest banks.
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Ellis also told the parties to avoid using the term "oligarch" to describe wealthy Ukrainians who prosecutors say paid for Manafort's work in Ukraine.
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There are teen punks, gay artists, an alcoholic reporter, a disabled detective, a Manhattan oligarch and his entire dysfunctional family, to name a few.
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Yes, but: The case of oligarch Oleg Deripaska shows there are limits to the costs the West is willing to absorb in the process.
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In 215, a Russian oligarch named Deripaska was asked by the FBI to give millions of his own money to fund an FBI operation.
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The club is also owned by an oligarch—the Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha—and has plenty of foreign players, from Japan, Algeria, and elsewhere.
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Suddenly, there's an oligarch on a yacht in St. Barts, and a time machine whizzes you back to the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland.
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Mr. Kilimnik also played a role in a reported effort by Mr. Manafort to contact a Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, during the campaign.
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But diplomats worry about his lack of experience and whether he is beholden to Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch on whose channel Zelenskiy's show airs.
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The White House on Wednesday rushed to distance itself from Manafort, saying Trump did not know of his secret work for a Russian oligarch.
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Manafort begins working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties with Vladimir Putin, for $225 million per year, per the Washington Post.
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By the time the Trump SoHo project was unveiled in 2007, the mining oligarch was already a serious concern to the U.S. State Department.
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Waldman is an American who runs the Endeavor Group, a D.C. lobbying firm that worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2009 and 2010.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who has been placed under U.S. sanctions, has resumed talks about merging his power assets with Gazprom (GAZP.
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To bolster their case, the media outlets noted the firm had represented Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (back in 220006) and some conservative clients since.
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He returned to Ukraine this year after the comic Volodymyr Zelensky, a former business partner of the oligarch, won the presidential election in April.
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Cohen's work for Columbus Nova LLC, a Zurich-based consulting firm linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, also was featured in the documents.
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The investment firm, Columbus Nova, however, insisted that it was false that it had been used as a conduit by the oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg.
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The FBI cautioned four years ago that a foundation controlled by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg might be a conduit for Russian espionage, NPR reports.
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FHB, a mortgage lender whose biggest owner and chairman is oligarch Zoltan Speder, rejected the allegations, saying it had respected Hungarian and EU laws.
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The pair wanted him to support the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, the then-ambassador to Ukraine, who was an enemy of their oligarch bosses.
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The Trump administration plans to lift sanctions on companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after he significantly reduced his ownership stake in them.
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Trump brought the pageant to Moscow with the help of Aras and Emin Agalarov, the Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire oligarch and his pop-star son.
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The company was indicted in February alongside two other Russian companies, a prominent Russian oligarch and 12 other Russians that worked for the firms.
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According to documents seen by CNN, it was drawn up by a Russian company tied to an oligarch favored by the Kremlin: Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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Most of its money has historically come from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who was among those sanctioned last month by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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The former is the son of a billionaire and the other is backed by an oligarch with close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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The other is the involvement of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son in a gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
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A $21.25,0003-a-month lobbying campaign has helped delay the imposition of sanctions against an industrial conglomerate owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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And Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch who owns the Chelsea Football Club of London, transferred four townhouses on 257th Street to a former wife.
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The consultancy's report became key evidence in a battle over the extradition of a powerful Ukrainian oligarch charged in a scheme to help Boeing.
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Unlike those who today try to manipulate politics to their ends, the Old Oligarch could appreciate the effectiveness of what he did not like.
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A defamation lawsuit was also filed against Dr. Rodchenkov this week, backed by Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the Russian oligarch who owns the Brooklyn Nets.
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The other involved a Russian businessman — described in an email to Mr. Banks as "a mini oligarch" — and a gold mine in Conakry, Guinea.
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Several other businesses, including the Swiss drugmaker Novartis and an American company linked to a Russian oligarch, also sent payments to Mr. Cohen's company.
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The ongoing battle between Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex-wife Tatiana Akhmedova has spanned Russia and the U.K., and more recently, Dubai.
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Not only do the terms "racist" or an "oligarch" fail the oppression test, but when it comes to Bloomberg, they are statements of fact.
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Sanders knows that giving a billionaire oligarch like Bloomberg a pass would destroy his own brand as a political warrior against the billionaire class.
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Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh opposition figure and oligarch (center), flanked by his lawyers, leaves the Fleury-Mérogis jail near Paris after being released, Dec.
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In a written statement, Jardemalie said she has no financial dealings with Ablyazov nor has she been named in any lawsuits involving the oligarch.
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Vandals spray-painted an expletive and the word "oligarch" on the doors of Bloomberg's office in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Thursday evening, the campaign said.
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Shortly before he was poisoned, Mr. Gebrev tried to buy Dunarit, a large arms production plant in Bulgaria coveted by a Kremlin-backed oligarch.
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Burisma Holdings is owned by oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, accused of systemic corruption and a close associate of the former Ukranian president who favored Russia.
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The crisis has held up the disbursement of valuable budget support from international lenders and highlighted the corrosive rivalry between oligarch groups in Moldova.
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"You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch," Johnson said, in reference to the central London district favored by Russian tycoons.
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Another is oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, one of the wealthiest men in Ukraine who is under investigation by the Department of Justice for money laundering.
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One of the named defendants, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is a Russian oligarch who has been dubbed Russian President Vladimir Putin's "chef" by the Russian press.
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President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than previously thought, according to a new report.
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The law firm Alston & Bird, which has previously worked for a Russian oligarch and a contractor of the Russian government, is representing the corporation.
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Biden's son, Hunter, worked on the board of a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch while his father served as vice president.
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One slide, made for Boeing, became the basis for an entire article involving the aircraft maker, a Ukrainian oligarch, Indian titanium and possible bribery.
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The law firm diGenova & Toensing, which also represents Firtash, has said it hired Parnas as a translator for the oligarch, who doesn't speak English.
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PrivatBank had been plagued with self-dealing while under the control of notorious Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky, who owned 42.5 percent of the bank.
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In August 113, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
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Apparently Cohen pushed Novartis to invest in a smaller pharma firm developing an autism treatment that had some vague links to a Russian oligarch.
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Manafort, who was reportedly in debt to the Russian oligarch, offered to provide Deripaska "private briefings" during the 2016 campaign, according to the Washington Post.
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Last year, Said Gutseriev, the son of a Russian oligarch, got married to Khadija Uzhakhova in what was called the world's first billion-dollar wedding.
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Norilsk, which is also known as Nornickel, is the world's second biggest nickel producer and is part-owned by Rusal and sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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The juicy fruit dangled in front of Trump Jr. was supposedly passed from the Kremlin's chief prosecutor to a real estate oligarch named Aras Agalarov.
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It's a wild tale that goes like this: The OA was the daughter of a wealthy Russian oligarch who taught her about bravery and adversity.
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Cohen and the oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, both expressed a desire to strengthen Russia's relationship with the U.S., and made arrangements to meet at the Jan.
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Petro Poroshenko, an oligarch with holdings in everything from chocolate to media, was elected President, with a mandate to carry out deep and lasting change.
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Soon after, a lawyer for the two men filed a claim for damages and told police in Kiev that the oligarch had threatened their lives.
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The networks were linked to a Russian oligarch, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was indicted by the U.S. and accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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Columbus Nova, an American investment firm with links to Viktor Vekselberg, an oligarch close to Mr Putin, paid Essential Consultants $500,20163 as a consulting fee.
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That followed their surge in the previous session, which was spurred by a U.S. decision to lift sanctions on firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Loans to companies related to the bank's largest shareholder, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, amounted to 97 percent of its loan portfolio, according to the central bank.
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In Ukraine, which made its European choice in 2014 by staging a revolution, there has been little progress towards ending the oligarch-dominated political system.
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Manafort for a decade had business ties to Ukraine, where he did work for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire oligarch linked to Russia's leader Vladimir Putin.
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In second place with 30 seats is the ruling Democratic Party (PDM), a nominally pro-European group headed by the country's biggest oligarch, Vladimir Plahotniuc.
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Cohen's business empire, such as it was, included suspicious payments from top companies, as well as Russian a company closely connected to oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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His long-standing relationship with an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin was another reason Manafort's cooperation was seen as important to Mueller's probe.
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The president had singled out Philweb's owner Roberto Ongpin, one of the richest men in the Southeast Asian nation, as an example of an oligarch.
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Kaveladze is a senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, according to Kaveladze's LinkedIn.
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If Arsenal were to win each match not even an oligarch would invest in a sport that would become as dull as a Soviet election.
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Mr. Goldsmith, Mr. Browder said, was retained by the lawyer for a Russian oligarch who was trying to avoid being sanctioned by the European Parliament.
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Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders have reveled in blasting Mr. Bloomberg as an oligarch seeking to buy the presidency, while avoiding conflict with Mr. Patrick.
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Surely this has something to do with her assignment to cover Mikhail Kuznetsov, a reformist oligarch who is thinking of running against Putin for president.
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A closer reading of the affidavit reveals that it also mentions another Russian oligarch, whose name has been redacted, who Manafort tried did business with.
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Leaked documents reveal that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has maintained business dealings with a Russian oligarch under sanction, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
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Columbus Nova Columbus Nova is a private equity firm headed by Andrew Intrater, who is cousins and business associates with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. 813.
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Prosecutors say it's particularly risky for Concord to get evidence in the case because of its ties to indicted and sanctioned Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
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Another firm, Columbus Nova, an American investment firm with ties to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, said it paid Cohen $500,000 for real estate investment advice.
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Another firm, Columubs Nova, an American investment firm with ties to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, said it paid Cohen $500,000 for real estate investment advice.
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The second is mega-rich oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who once owned a large stake in Facebook and now co-owns the UK soccer team Arsenal.
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According to Zaikin's partner Cowley, who served on the company's board, the venture was ultimately controlled by Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-born Russian iron oligarch.
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Before the jury entered the room on Wednesday, Ellis urged both sides to avoid using the term "oligarch" when describing Manafort's powerful patrons in Ukraine.
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A Russian oligarch closely tied to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia also lent Mr. Manafort $10 million that prosecutors have suggested was never repaid.
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Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, reportedly used his position to offer private briefings to a Russian oligarch to whom he owed millions of dollars.
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In fact, Mr. Akhmetov owns the entire building, which includes a business in the lobby fit for an oligarch: an Aston Martin-Rolls Royce dealership.
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For an alleged Russian agent funded by an oligarch, they say, Ms. Butina hardly lived a life of fake identities, secret communications and hidden allegiances.
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"This situation in the country will continue as long as the Moldovan oligarch Plahotniuc, who has captured all state institutions, is in Moldova," Sandu said.
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Washington was abuzz yesterday with the news that Michael Cohen's Essential Consultants received $22001,260 from an investment fund tied to the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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The oligarch took out newspaper advertisements in the United States last year volunteering to testify in any congressional hearings examining his work with Mr. Manafort.
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Until 2016, the owner of the Anzhi Football Club was Suleyman Kerimov, a Russian oligarch and lawmaker who made billions in oil, mining and finance.
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During the pair's heady days in Ukraine, it was Mr. Gates who flew to Moscow for meetings with associates of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch.
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And Grenell also once published a series of columns favorable toward a Moldovan oligarch who is now a blacklisted fugitive facing allegations of massive corruption.
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Mueller's team has also made an informal voluntary document and interview request to a third Russian oligarch who has not traveled to the US recently.
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They alleged Parnas misled them repeatedly on sworn financial documents, specifically about a $1 million loan from a Ukrainian oligarch with links to Trump's lawyers.
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" He has also frequently tried to rush the prosecution through testimony about important financial documents and has essentially banned the use of the word "oligarch.
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It's based on conversations with exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three former U.S. ambassadors to Moscow, leading experts and former chiefs of the Pentagon and CIA.
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In fact, some of the vice president's former associates said he never did anything to deter other efforts to go after the oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky.
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Parnas told CNN that Barr was aware of Giuliani's activities in Ukraine, which included a deal with an oligarch to obtain damaging material about Biden.
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The effort bears striking similarity to how Parnas has described an effort to solve legal problems in the US faced by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
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The man he replaced, Andriy Bohdan, a former lawyer for the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, reportedly became chief of staff last year over Mr. Giuliani's objections.
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They include the fact that the report was almost entirely financed by a Ukrainian oligarch who had routed the payments through an offshore bank account.
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Firtash's lawyer denied to CNN that the oligarch worked with the three men, but two sources indicated Correia spent more than a week with Firtash.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is under pressure over how he will resolve a long-running dispute regarding a nationalized bank and its former oligarch owner.
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The oligarch said last week that he had met with the president on September 10 for the first time since his inauguration, following an invitation.
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The prosecutor was probing a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch and which Hunter Biden sat on the board of at the time.
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He chaired the Trump campaign, attended the Trump Tower meeting, was a longtime business partner of Roger Stone, and had worked for a Russian oligarch.
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Cohen, according to documents revealed by Avenatti, also accepted half a million dollars from a U.S. investment firm closely linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Veskelberg.
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Sulzer was temporarily shut out of the U.S. market last year after its majority owner, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, appeared on a U.S. sanctions list.
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The House voted 362-53 Thursday on a resolution to oppose the Treasury Department's decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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The operation against the company, which is bankrolled by an oligarch close to Putin, was carried out in order to prevent any interference in the midterms.
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Within it were countless files linking AIQ to the Ripon program, as well as notes related to active projects for Cruz, Abbott, and the Ukrainian oligarch.
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Wanting to intimidate Lesin, the oligarch then contracted with Russian state security agents to beat up Lesin, the report states, according to three of the sources.
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Zelenskiy remains something of an unknown quantity and faces scrutiny over his ties to a powerful oligarch who would like to see Poroshenko out of power.
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The decision along with its accompanying deal would reduce oligarch Oleg Deripaska's ownership stake and control of the company (Deripaska has been linked to Paul Manafort).
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Orbis reportedly has an array of clients, including a firm representing Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — which some Republican lawmakers have seized upon to question Steele's work.
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After spending several months under house arrest in late 2014, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch, relinquished control of Bashneft, a midsized oil firm, to the state.
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As Britain's most famous oligarch, Mr Abramovich was an obvious target for the government to demonstrate a tougher attitude to those with ties to Russia's president.
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But Vlad Plahotniuc, an oligarch who has dominated Moldovan politics in recent years, is so unpopular that he has managed to unite all three against him.
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Crowley subsequently worked for a Ukrainian oligarch, Victor Pinchuk, according to a registration notice filed with the Justice Department's foreign agent registration office in March 2017.
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Columnist Byron York is reporting on newly discovered communications which show a relationship between Christopher Steele, Bruce Ohr, and a Russian oligarch during the 22018 election.
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Assange's internet access was restored after the election, and he continued to meet with hackers as well as an American lobbyist representing a prominent Russian oligarch.
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He is a senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, according to Kaveladze's LinkedIn profile.
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Newly released court filings have revealed that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort received a $10 million loan from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to Reuters.
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At first there was speculation, never confirmed, about a mystery buyer, all too eagerly depicted by rumormongers as a shadowy Russian oligarch or a Chinese tycoon.
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News reports have detailed their phone calls and emails in 2016, including one exchange where Manafort tried to use Kilimnik to reach a prominent Russian oligarch.
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The panel last week interviewed Ike Kaveladze, a Russian who attended the meeting on behalf of Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov, the oligarch who initiated the session.
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The Post also reported that Manafort and Kilimnik exchanged emails in 2016 about offering "private briefings" about the campaign to Oleg Deripaska, a prominent Russian oligarch.
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He is not without controversy, however, because of his own business links to Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoyskyi – something his opponents have been quick to seize upon.
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His reward has been heavy sanctions, resulting in Russia's ruble falling in value, as well as doing financial damage to several of Putin's closet oligarch friends.
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But there was a huge flaw in this strategy: Few if any voters believe that he's some closet oligarch hoarding riches that he won't cop to.
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Why it matters: Glushkov is an ally of Boris Berezovsky, the late oligarch who was Putin's top foe in the West until his death in 2013.
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The Russian tycoon has already won a preliminary injunction that's led authorities to seek to block the content the oligarch contends contains false accusations against him.
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The prosecutors especially don't want the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is charged in the case and owned Concord, to have access, according to several court filings.
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In 2011, a Russian oligarch, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, challenged Mr. Putin in the presidential election, saying he would represent the disenchanted voices of Russia's liberal class.
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Cohen also developed a relationship with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — a US affiliate of Vekselberg's company (run by his cousin) paid Essential Consultants at least $500,0003.
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The British news media revealed that the oligarch had flown Mr. Rothschild and Lord Mandelson on his private jet in 22012 for a jaunt in Siberia.
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"Orwell would have despised Trump as a kind of fat, dumb, uneducated oligarch," he said last month in a podcast produced by the magazine Foreign Policy.
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"Not every oligarch can say that he has developed himself into a genuine pop star," said Boris Barabanov, a music critic for the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
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With Florence, his number two, Nat throws himself into Operation Rosebud, which involves the surveillance of a London-based Ukrainian oligarch with links to Russian intelligence.
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Monica Crowley — who bowed out of a Trump administration post after a plagiarism scandal — is now working as a foreign agent for Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
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One was focused on an oligarch — previously cleared of wrongdoing by the same prosecutor — whose company employed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son.
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The company is the only defendant to appear in US court among two other companies and 14 Russian individuals, including an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.
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Years later, Geovanis worked for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whose ties to Trump's 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort have also been of interest to investigators.
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The Trump administration and Congress should leverage attention around the Oligarch List to target dark money in the U.S. financial system, including Russian-funded election interference.
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The 33-year-old Dutch national is the son-in-law of a Russian oligarch and is a former associate at top law firm Skadden, Arps.
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Russia and Syria Did a Russian oligarch get a green light from Moscow for a mercenary attack on the United States and allied forces in Syria?
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A Kremlin-friendly oligarch has allegedly continued pumping millions of dollars into the St. Petersburg troll farm that was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election.
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Patten sought tickets to Trump's inauguration on behalf of an unnamed prominent Ukrainian oligarch, according to court documents released Friday, ultimately paying $50,353 for four tickets.
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He was the only senator not to appear as Republicans blocked a Democratic resolution to prevent the Trump administration from easing sanctions on a Russian oligarch.
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DiGenova and Toensing also represent Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch with Russian ties who is fighting extradition to the United States on conspiracy and bribery charges.
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Now she tells VICE News she'll only turn them over to one man: Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch who she says is featured in the tapes.
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Mr. Manafort arranged for the firm to receive $4 million funneled from an oligarch through a Cypriot account controlled by Mr. Manafort, according to government filings.
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Some suggest that the separatists want to capture Avdiivka's vast coke plant — a lucrative asset, which supplies the steel mills of Ukraine's richest oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov.
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There is no regulatory definition of oligarch, he said, so Treasury Department set $1 billion as the threshold, which was also the same criteria used by Forbes.
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For instance, laws designed to prevent the offshoring of Russian money are rarely used, unless a particular company or oligarch prove to be uncooperative with the state.
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The YouTube video that was posted on February 8th consists of a report about Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's cozy relationship with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives backed legislation on Thursday to keep sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including aluminum firm Rusal (0486.
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A BuzzFeed News investigation has found examples of executives, doctors, criminals, and even a Russian oligarch all benefiting from search engine manipulation campaigns to suppress negative content.
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Now BuzzFeed News has established: Steele's report says that Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Putin, the four sources said.
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But his own relationship with self-exiled, controversial oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who owns the TV channel that Zelensky's productions are broadcast on, has also come under scrutiny.
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But he remains something of an unknown quantity and faces scrutiny over his ties to a powerful oligarch who would like to see Poroshenko out of power.
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In 1999, as Yeltsin prepared to step down, Boris Berezovsky, the ultimate oligarch, who had worked himself into the president's family, proposed Mr Putin as Yeltsin's successor.
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Blavatnik, the letter notes, co-owns Sual Partners with another sanctioned oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, and Sual "is a major shareholder" of Rusal, one of Deripaska's sanctioned companies.
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The Treasury Department announced Sunday that it had lifted sanctions on three companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including the world's second-largest aluminum producer Rusal.
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This is what I&aposm saying, Senior, Rubio, a Russian oligarch used $25 million according to multiple sources of his own money to get this guy out.
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"There are Russians inside and fugitive oligarchs," he added, referring to Mr Zelensky's murky ties with Ihor Kolomoisky, a controversial oligarch whose TV channel airs his shows.
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And at one point, as a sidebar, Steele was lobbying Ohr on behalf of a Russian oligarch trying to gain entry for him to the United States.
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Some of this money was coming from the bank's shareholders, a holding controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriyev and his family, thereby capping the central bank contribution.
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A donor to the Clinton Foundation, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, led the Russian side of the effort, and several American donors to the Clinton charity got involved.
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A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
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Specifically, The Washington Post reported in September, citing people familiar with the discussions, that Manafort in 2016 offered to provide a Russian oligarch with Trump campaign briefings.
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She previously said she had recordings in her possession of conversations regarding election interference linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who she reportedly had a relationship with.
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Samopomich considers it "impossible to remain further in a union of political powers that participated in an oligarch-led coup in parliament," Berezyuk said in a briefing.
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Agalarov and his father, billionaire oligarch Aras Agalarov, know the Trump family because they worked together on the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, which was held in Moscow.
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The two most lethal elements of the Treasury's package may be the reach of its secondary sanctions, and the threat that no oligarch is safe from them.
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The company, owned by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, better known as "Putin's Cook," was indicted for running an online trolling effort designed to subvert the 2016 election.
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Authorities in the U.K. have yet to renew billionaire Russian oligarch and Chelsea F.C. owner Roman Abramovich's visa after its expiration last month, the Financial Times reports.
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There were four Russians in the room, including a lawyer with Kremlin ties, a businessman who worked for an oligarch and a lobbyist with old KGB connections.
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She said she thought the chateau could be perfect for horse owners, a multinational headquarters, an embassy or perhaps home to an Arab sheikh or Russian oligarch.
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Warner exchanged text messages with Waldman, who worked as a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch, about making contact with Steele, according to the Fox News report. Sen.
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An unsealed U.S. grand jury suddenly hit Dmytro Firtash, an oligarch ally of deposed Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich, leading to his was arrested in Austria in 2014.
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The new American campaign, according to these officials, is aimed at both oligarch-funded hacking groups and Russian intelligence operatives who are part of Moscow's disinformation campaign.
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According to Gates, the men also discussed the dismissal of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's lawsuit, with Kilimnik saying he was attempting to obtain documentation showing the dismissal.
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His self-appointed mission: to expose the person he believed was behind the firm's operation, a Kazakh oligarch with interests in asbestos mines in Kazakhstan and Russia.
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Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch whose name this week was thrown into the Trump administration's unfolding Russia saga, is no stranger to allegations of shady business dealings.
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Defenders of the Trump administration's approach to Russia sanctions pointed to Mr. Deripaska's lawsuit as evidence that the Treasury Department has not gone easy on the oligarch.
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"We are all equal in front of the law, both an ordinary person and an oligarch," Mr. Zelensky said in an interview with the BBC in February.
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Mr. Manafort wanted the data sent to two Ukrainian oligarchs, Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, not to Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin.
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Boeing asked McKinsey to evaluate a proposal, potentially worth $500 million annually, to mine titanium in India through a foreign partnership financed by an influential Ukrainian oligarch.
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The House voted 362 to 53 to block the Treasury Department from lifting sanctions against the companies, which are controlled by the Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska.
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Last year, Mr. Ohr asked someone who communicated with Mr. Deripaska to urge the oligarch to "give up Manafort," according to a person familiar with the exchange.
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Liwet, an investment vehicle of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, has proposed Juergen Geissinger as the company's new chairman along with three other executives to join the board.
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Currently, he is pursuing a case against a former central bank governor that could aid a powerful oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, a former business partner of Mr. Zelensky.
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The oligarch, who had fled the country amid investigations by previous prosecutors, was removed by a Ukrainian court from "the wanted list," and returned to the country.
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The reshuffling appears to be a part of a power struggle between the prime minister and an oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, who has also worked with Mr. Giuliani.
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The Ukrainian oligarch and former government official behind Burisma, whose name is Mykola Zlochevsky, has indeed been investigated in Ukraine over allegations of corruption and tax evasion.
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But Mr. Biden's son Hunter served on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had come under scrutiny by the fired prosecutor.
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One column cited an affidavit prepared by his own lawyers, who were reportedly employed at the time by a Ukrainian oligarch looking for damaging information about Biden.
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A secret memo written around the same time (and since made public by Bulgarian prosecutors) detailed a Russian plan to transfer Dunarit to the oligarch, Konstantin Malofeev.
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But the move has caused a backlash from opposition lawmakers and prompted a series of protests from citizens unhappy with Filip's close ties to a prominent oligarch.
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Patten worked with Manafort's Russian associate Kilimnik through 2017 and admitted in court to illegally using a straw purchaser to buy Trump inaugural tickets for an oligarch.
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The testimony once again drew attention to the Trump administration's Russia approach, which came under criticism in January when it released the long-awaited Russian Oligarch List.
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He was a billionaire who had built his business empire around a candy company and, in typical oligarch fashion, also owned a television channel and other holdings.
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According to Mr. Parnas's lawyer, that is when Mr. Giuliani charged Mr. Parnas with persuading the oligarch to replace Mr. Davis with Ms. Toensing and Mr. diGenova.
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No new sanctions have been implemented, and the oligarch list does not appear designed to probe at any real nodes of weakness within the Russian ruling elite.
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Simultaneously, a prominent Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin recently docked his yacht in a port in Palm Beach, the Palm Beach Post reported.
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This followed reports that he was a close friend of Putin critic and tycoon Boris Berezovsky — an oligarch opposed to Putin that was found hanged in 2013.
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Last December, a top K Street firm earned $200,000 for an effort to help solve "visa issues" for a Russian oligarch exiled in the United Kingdom (U.K.).
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Prosecutors say that Mr. Patten arranged meetings with congressional officials for the oligarch, and one former congressional aide recalled being introduced to Mr. Lyovochkin by Mr. Patten.
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In February 2018, Mueller indicted 13 Russians, including an oligarch with close ties to Putin, for their role in tricking Americans into reading and sharing Russian propaganda.
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Earlier this year, it was reported that eleven days before the inauguration, a prominent Russian oligarch met with Cohen to discuss improving US-Russia relations under Trump.
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The big question now is if he can follow through on his promises to stamp out undue oligarch influence in Kyiv and turn Ukraine's economic fortunes around.
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Just this week, evidence emerged that Manafort had, as recently as 2009, been paid by a Russian oligarch to lobby on behalf of the Kremlin in Washington.
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Democrats also demanded documents from Russian billionaire oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, former White House counsel Don McGahn, former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort, and many more.
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That group is backed by a Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, and two companies that he controls, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, and Concord Catering, according to prosecutors.
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The factory, part of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov's sprawling empire, once sat at the heart of a regional supply chain, turning Donbas coal into coke for steel mills.
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"The fact that the public oligarch list mirrors the Forbes list is 'too cute' for Congress, and riles up angry legislators," said Liz Rosenberg, a former Treasury official.
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The Washington Post reported that during the US presidential campaign, Manafort emailed Kilimnik, offering to give "private briefings" about the race to a Russian oligarch close to Putin.
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Mr. Saakashvili, a shrewd politician with a populist streak, has set about organizing rallies around Ukraine to build a grass-roots anti-oligarch movement called Cleaning Up Ukraine.
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Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and aluminum magnate who Manafort has known since at least 2004 and done a good deal of consulting work for over the years.
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US sanctions The investment comes after the US Treasury Department in January lifted sanctions on Rusal, En+ Group and another firm with links to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Patten also admitted to using a straw purchaser to provide Trump inaugural tickets to Kilimnik and a Ukrainian oligarch, and he helped the Justice Department following his plea.
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John Solomon reporting that Russian oligarch was one of the first people of the FBI actually interviewed when they began investigating the Clinton bought and paid for dossier.
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Watch your language Ellis put a lid on the use of the word "oligarch" by prosecutors to describe the wealthy Ukrainians Manafort associated with in his business dealings.
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But as you noted this new correspondence obtained by The Hill newspaper, show Steele himself was lobbying Ohr to help the Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, get a visa.
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Journalist Meagan Day posted about her delivery misadventures this week when an order for jokey felt sauna hats with the word "oligarch" printed in Russian finally got delivered.
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That's the oligarch whom Manafort wanted to privately brief and with whom he seems to have surreptitiously communicated, through an intermediary, while he chaired Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
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THE OLIGARCH Aras Agalarov is a Russian real-estate developer who's been called the "Donald Trump of Russia" because he likes to put his name on his properties.
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His intent, Goldstone says, was to arrange a meeting with the Trump family and his client Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose father is oligarch Aras Agalarov.
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His lawyers have detailed a few exceptions, including the Miss Universe pageant he held in Moscow and the Florida mansion he sold to a Russian oligarch in 2008.
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Proceedings began cordially as Navalny snapped a selfie with Usmanov's attorney, Genrikh Padva, one of Russia's best known lawyers who used to represent former jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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In 2011, he sold all his overseas interests to Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who had been Manafort's business partner in a failed $850 million hotel redevelopment deal.
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The firm's name surfaced in a case federal prosecutors brought against a Ukrainian oligarch because it gave a presentation that cited the need to bribe officials in India.
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The administration also drew criticism after announcing in December that it was seeking to ease sanctions on companies owned by a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin.
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The Bloomberg Initiative has also created a backlash from smokers' rights groups, who portray Mr. Bloomberg as a foreign oligarch determined to stamp out Indonesia's proud tobacco tradition.
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Patten allegedly tried to conceal the source of a $85033,000 payment for four presidential inauguration tickets in 2017 on behalf of the Ukrainian oligarch, who is not named.
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For an architect like Fotiadis, an oligarch like Akhmetov would be in some ways the perfect client, said Jan deRoos, a Cornell University professor of real estate finance.
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They're particularly concerned about the information that could be shared with Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russia-based oligarch known as "Putin's chef," before he appears in the US court.
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Through a publicist intermediary, a Kremlin-connected Russian oligarch, Aras Agalarov, reached out to Don Jr. offering what was hyped as devastatingly information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton.
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The charge stems from his work lobbying on behalf of a political party in Ukraine known as the Opposition Bloc and the Ukrainian oligarch between 2014 and 85033.
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What I was saying between Biden and his son's relationship with the Ukraine oligarch and potential business dealings that the Trump Organization has had which predated his presidency.
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B&N Bank, part of a holding company controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev and his family, is not on the central bank's list of systemically important lenders.
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CNN reported Wednesday that Mueller's team stopped two oligarchs during recent trips to the U.S. and made a voluntary document and interview request to a third Russian oligarch.
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Glushkov, whose cause of death was "compression to the neck," according to police, was a close friend of the late oligarch and well-known Putin foe Boris Berezovsky.
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A person who works closely with a billionaire Russian oligarch said he assessed the risk the oligarch's business would be put under U.S. sanctions was only 10 percent.
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The Times had initially reported that Manafort had wanted the polling data to be shared with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to the country's president, Vladimir Putin.
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Poroshenko — a confectionary and media oligarch — served as president of Ukraine from 2014 until May 2019, when he lost a reelection bid to the reform-minded Volodymyr Zelensky.
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In the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis, an oligarch who rode a wave of anger toward the corruption and complacency of conventional politics, won a resounding election in October.
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" The F.B.I. also said that Ms. Butina's emails and text messages referred to an oligarch with "deep ties to the Russian presidential administration" who served as her "funder.
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Although Mr. Zelensky has been a business partner with the oligarch through television and announced his candidacy on Mr. Kolomoisky's channel, both men have denied any covert link.
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Viktor Vekselberg is a powerful Russian oligarch who is worth roughly $13 billion, making him one of the richest men not just in Russia but in the world.
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Mr. Manafort arranged for Skadden Arps to be paid more than $5.2 million in 2012 and 2013, primarily from a Ukrainian oligarch, to assist the Ukrainian Justice Ministry.
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One of Mr. Blavatnik's early investments, United Trading Company, which he owned with Viktor Vekselberg, another oligarch also under American sanctions, brought him censure from the Russian government.
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Russia: The Trump administration cast its move to lift sanctions on the business empire of the Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska as tough on him and on Russia.
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In 413, Boeing hired the prestigious consulting firm to evaluate a proposal to mine titanium in India, through a foreign partnership financed by the Ukranian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
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The accountant, Cynthia Laporta, testified that in 2006, Mr. Manafort received a $10 million loan from Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir V. Putin.
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The oligarch was busy telling everyone that the assassins had really been sent to eliminate him but must have failed and seized the chance to poison Litvinenko instead.
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Wednesday morning, prosecutors filed a list of evidence they'd like to present at the trial, such as charts, photographs, memos for his Ukrainian oligarch employers and phone records.
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On Wednesday, Ellis told the prosecution to stop using the word "oligarch" to describe Russian businessmen and told them to rein-in their facial expressions during his scoldings.
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In 2014, while Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama, Hunter Biden joined the board of a natural gas company called Burisma owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
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What he also didn't say on the video was that his son was being paid significant amounts by the oligarch owner of Burisma to sit on that board.
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This includes the Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency and its patron, Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"By employing oligarch-funded, quasi-mercenary military advisors, particularly in countries where leaders seek unchallenged autocratic rule, Russian interests gain access to natural resources on favorable terms," Gen.
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But the authorities stated straightforwardly that their main reason for clamping down was the encouragement the protests have received from Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh oligarch based in France.
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The rail blockade has harmed the business interests of Ukraine's wealthiest oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov, who owns coal mines and steel mills in both separatist- and government-controlled territory.
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Even Russian President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, now a billionaire oligarch as a result of his family connections, has found himself in the hot seat.
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Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who fled Russia in 2000, was found dead at his home in 2013 and an open verdict recorded as the cause of death.
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Facebook announced today that it removed a collection of disinformation networks targeting African countries and linked to a Russian oligarch previously indicted in connection with the Mueller inquiry.
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That's the number of posts Instagram appeared to take down this week at the behest of Russian regulator Roskomnadzor over a lawsuit brought by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, whose personal financial dealings are being scrutinized, as is his department's decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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The Republicans voted with Democrats seeking to keep sanctions in place on companies controlled by an influential Russian oligarch with connections to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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But later, it was revealed that the direction for the nonprofit came from Ukraine's ruling party and the funding for Skadden Arps's work came from a Ukrainian oligarch.
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The description of one op-ed appeared to match one that bore the name of one oligarch and was published in U.S. News & World Report in February 2017.
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Vashukevich, who is also known as Nastya Rybka, said she had recordings of conversations on interference in the U.S. election through an association with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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The wife of a Russian oligarch or a Malaysian tycoon can file for divorce in London if she can persuade a judge that she has sufficient links to England.
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He and other businessmen were speaking before a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Union of Industrialists, known informally as the "oligarch union", in Moscow on Friday.
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One of her biggest reforms was nationalizing PrivatBank, an oligarch-owned lender of systemic importance which she said lent all its corporate loans to parties related to its owners.
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Pocahontas Coal is part of the business empire of Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who backed his country's pro-Russia political party and hired former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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After a Twitter user criticized a different Russian oligarch, the account replied to note how generous Kerimov is, and he pointed to the official website for the Kerimov Foundation.
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He's also one of the precious few high-profile Trump lieutenants who has avoided scandal, whether that involve a contract killing gaffe or ties to a pro-Russian oligarch.
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A Symbian-based phone made with some super premium materials could potentially appeal to a super-rich oligarch, because the phone itself worked the same as any other dumbphone.
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Explain to me why Biden shouldn't be investigated if his son got millions from a Russian loving crooked Ukrainian oligarch while He was VP and point man for Ukraine.
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In August, Congress almost-unanimously passed new economic sanctions against Russia – including provisions directly targeting Putin's oligarch allies – while also barring Trump from lifting previous sanctions without congressional review.
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With all votes counted the Putin-friendly Socialists had won 31.1% of the vote, with the pro-Western Democratic Party of Vlad Plahotniuc, Moldova's most important oligarch, winning 23.6%.
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Backed by oligarch cash, Khrzhanovsky hired thousands of "participants" and built a massive set — an attempted recreation of a mid-century research facility — on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A search warrant application unsealed yesterday revealed closer links than previously known between Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin.
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They had also written that the Internet Research Agency is funded by Evgeny Prigozhin, a restaurant owner and oligarch with big Russian government contracts and close ties to Putin.
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It has also been revealed that Leshchenko's expenses for attending international forums were paid for by the oligarch Viktor Pinchuk who also contributed $85033,6 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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So on one hand we have Goodell, the death-and-concussion-ignoring NFL oligarch, exerting his undue supreme authority over the league to suspend Elliott for domestic violence claims.
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Moscow-listed shares of aluminium giant Rusal rose 3.5 percent after the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation to keep sanctions on firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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An explosive investigation by AP Wednesday revealed that the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian oligarch to help advance the interests of Vladimir Putin.
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The documents also indicated that Cohen received $85033,000 in the months after the 2016 election from a company run by a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin.
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Avenatti has also alleged that a Russian oligarch "routed eight payments" totaling a half-million dollars to Cohen through a company in the US named Columbus Nova in 2017.
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The administration announced plans to relax sanctions on the three businesses — Rusal, EN+ and EuroSibEnerg — connected to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Virginia Democrat exchanged text messages with Waldman, who did work as a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch, about making contact with Steele, according to the Fox News report.
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Details about Cohen's consulting contracts were also laid out in the filings, including payments he received from a company owned by a firm tied to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Trump's deliberate attacks on our democratic allies and on NATO play into Putin's hands, but there is more to Trump's friendliness to the Russian oligarch than fear of kompromat.
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Patten pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying on behalf of a political party in Ukraine called the Opposition Bloc, the successor to Russia-backed oligarch Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions.
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The legislation comes after it was revealed earlier this year that a Russian oligarch had purchased in 85033 a software company used for some of Maryland's voter registration system.
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Kaveladze, who worked for the Russian oligarch who sought to broker the meeting between the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Trump Jr., will meet with investigators behind closed doors.
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Giuliani argued that Biden targeted Shokin at a time when the prosecutor general was investigating an oligarch who owned a company that hired Hunter Biden, the vice president's son.
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Columbus Nova, a private equity firm whose primary investor is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — one of the Russians sanctioned by the Treasury Department — acknowledges that it paid Cohen $500,000.
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We know Mueller questioned a Russian oligarch tied to a firm that made payments to Cohen, who paid off a porn star who allegedly had an affair with Trump.
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The details: In 2015, AltPoint Capital Partners, whose fund manager is a Russian and largest investor is a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin, funded ByteGrid LLC, per the Post.
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In court filings, the Justice Department identifies Khusyaynova as the chief accountant for "Project Lakhta," an influence campaign funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin through two firms he owns.
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In January 2017, after Mr. Trump was elected, Mr. Cohen met with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower in Manhattan and at an inauguration event in Washington.
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Leonid Mikhelson, Russia's richest oligarch, used Bank of Utah as a stand-in so he could register his Gulfstream jet in the United States, which requires citizenship or residency.
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And a Washington lobbyist, in a guilty plea for violating foreign lobbying laws, admitted to helping a Russia-aligned Ukrainian oligarch illegally purchase four tickets to Mr. Trump's inauguration.
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Relief for Russian oligarch: The Trump administration plans to lift sanctions against the business empire of Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia's most influential businessmen, after lobbying by his companies.
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Rumors have swirled that Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister from the Georgian Dream party and the country's richest oligarch, has been a secret beneficiary of the digital experiment.
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First we have Michael Bloomberg, an oligarch worth $60 billion dollars, who failed to buy the election and has instead turned to the second-best thing: endorsing Joe Biden.
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WASHINGTON — In the estimation of American officials, Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin, has faced credible accusations of extortion, bribery and even murder.
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The owner was a Russian "mini-oligarch" who "shares your passion for the yellow metal," the banker wrote, according to people who have reviewed a record of the email.
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Mr. Cohen, President Trump's lawyer and longtime fixer, met with a Russian oligarch at Trump Tower to discuss Russia and was later paid by a company connected to him.
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At the New Museum in Manhattan, another wealthy oligarch, Leonid Mikhelson, helped underwrite a 2011 exhibition through his foundation, which is dedicated to the appreciation of Russian contemporary art.
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The oligarch was constantly being contacted by disturbingly young sex workers from the former USSR and he frequently ferried them over to Britain for sessions on his private plane.
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Scotland Yard said it would investigate those allegations, but the oligarch was unconcerned: the courts had already ruled that he couldn't be sent back to Russia to stand trial.
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Defence may be a neighborhood of oligarchs, but, as one Pakistani writer told me, in Karachi you can live like an oligarch on a hundred thousand dollars a year.
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A personnel shuffle by President Volodymyr Zelensky could be felt in United States politics, but appears to stem from a domestic dispute between the government and a controversial oligarch.
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It has also been revealed that Leshchenko's expenses for attending international forums were paid for by the oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who also contributed $8.6 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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A Belarusian escort who said she has audio recordings proving Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election says she has since handed over the tapes to a Russian oligarch.
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In late October, 2008, the oligarch was summoned to Moscow, where he was told that a government investigation into an accident at his potash company, Uralkali, was being reopened.
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The fund's statement praised Mr. Zelensky but also noted obliquely that releasing the aid would hinge on the president's breaking with an oligarch and former business partner, Ihor Kolomoisky.
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The real centerpiece for the duo is their work for Dmytro Firtash, the oligarch who has privately boasted of his ties to the Russian mob, something he now denies.
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Manafort offered to provide a briefing on the campaign the following month to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to The Washington Post.
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House Democrats summoned Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, for a classified briefing about the government's plans to end sanctions on companies linked to a Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska.
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For Skadden Arps, the work was lucrative; Mr. Manafort arranged for the firm to be paid more than $5.2 million in 2012 and 2013, primarily from a Ukrainian oligarch.
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The filing then claims that in documents, Butina often refers to her "funder" — a Russian oligarch who, according to Forbes, had a net worth of $1.2 billion in 2018.
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A Ukrainian oligarch connected to Russia offered a quid pro quo involving Mueller and the DOJSpecifically, Parnas implicated Barr in what he said was an agreement he made with Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch linked to the Kremlin, to get the Justice Department to drop fraud and bribery charges against Firtash in exchange for information to discredit former Special Counsel Robert Mueller&aposs investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
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Those payments, as well as an alleged payment from a Russian oligarch to Cohen through the company Columbus Nova, were all included in the leaked bank document, the magazine reported.
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Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg was accused of working as the accountant for a Russian social media propaganda and "information warfare" operation, run by an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.
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The company said the online networks were linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch who was indicted by the United States and accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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Leading the charge is KB Strelka, a consultancy backed by Alexander Mamut, an oligarch, and founded as an outgrowth of the liberal-minded Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
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There's former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is accused of failing to publicly disclose taking millions of dollars from a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party and a Russian oligarch.
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The plot is allegedly funded by notorious Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, dubbed "Putin's chef" due to his closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his background in the restaurant business.
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Its crackdown on Rusal, Russia's biggest aluminium producer, in April was aimed at punishing Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, who owns it through EN+, a company recently floated in London.
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Robert Mueller then FBI director was able to convince the Russian oligarch to hand over $21980 million in an effort to release this American hero, I applaud him for that.
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" Think about how desperate the FBI had to be to go to our Russian oligarch and say, "Could you fund this because the United States government wouldn&apost fund it?
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But Sulzer said on Thursday it was free of U.S. sanctions after authorities approved its buyback of shares, reducing sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's stake to less than 50 percent.
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The White House on Wednesday rushed to distance itself from President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, saying Trump did not know of his secret work for a Russian oligarch.
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Rusal, the world's second-biggest aluminium producer, was punished because 48 percent of its shares were held by En+, which in turn was 193 percent owned by the Russian oligarch.
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One of those contacts was by Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and politician, according to one person with detailed knowledge of the exchange and two others familiar with the issue.
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On Friday, an ex-Credit Suisse wealth manager was sentenced to five years in jail for defrauding clients including former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and Russian oligarch Vitaly Malkin.
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"The European Union is paying so much money to an oligarch who's also a politician," said Lukas Wagenknecht, a Czech senator and economist who used to work for Mr. Babis.
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Making his first direct move against Russians, Mueller indicted Concord in February, along with two other companies, a dozen of their so-called "trolls," and their oligarch benefactor, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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Between 2014 and 2016, the FBI and the Justice Department unsuccessfully tried to turn Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — into a U.S. government informant.
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Cohen and Intrater continued to correspond in the months afterward, leading the two men to sit together at one of President Trump's inauguration dinners, along with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Today, Akhmetov is best known to Americans as the Ukrainian oligarch who first hired former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in 2005 to come and work for him in Ukraine.
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British music publicist Rob Goldstone, Veselnitskaya, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, translator Anatoli Samochornov and Ike Kaveladze, who works for the Russian oligarch who initiated the meeting, were also there.
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The oligarch network began in the 1990s under former president Leonid Kuchma, and thrived in the post-Soviet breakdown, according to Mikhail Minakov, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center.
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Records indicate Manafort, under scrutiny for ties to a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, bought New York City real estate, some of the deals appeared to be all-cash.
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Dubbed the "Rolls-Royce VISION NEXT 100," a name we will not use again, the wild-eyed concept imagines—and satisfies—the self-glorifying demands of the 22nd century oligarch.
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Eleven days before President Trump's inauguration, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen took part in a meeting at Trump Tower with billionaire Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, reports the New York Times.
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Manafort participated in the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian-tied delegation arranged by Donald Trump Jr., and also tried to communicate with a Russian oligarch during the campaign.
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It's a very Russian situation where there's sort of an oligarch in power, and then another guy who is the voice of the people, and what's in it for Selina.
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Glushkov, 68, was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was found dead in his home in 2013 under suspicious circumstances.
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Russians backed by a powerful oligarch also at that time allegedly ran a propaganda campaign on American social media sites to influence voters in a way that would help Trump.
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But the challenge facing Manafort's lawyers is how to make their client appear sympathetic rather than the American equivalent of a Russian oligarch who also happened to manage Trump's campaign.
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Midland received $280 million for its stake, $2100 million more than the amount that Shnaider and Shyfrin had been offered for the steel mill by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest oligarch.
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OPINION An Op-Ed article last Friday headlined "Hitting Putin Where It Hurts" referred to news reports that a Russian oligarch used family members to invest in property in London.
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But Vashukevich, who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka, has a documented link to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch who figures prominently in one of the scandals surrounding the Trump campaign.
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"They will continue to have to deal with an unpredictable, grumpy populist; with an oligarch prime minister; and the support of the communists" in the Czech Republic, Mr. Koran said.
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Mr. Cohen's critics suggested that Mr. Intrater may have been a front for his oligarch cousin to funnel Russian money to the president's inner circle, a theory Mr. Intrater denied.
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The footage shows Mr. Strache and a Russian-speaking Freedom Party official smoking and drinking while talking to a woman who claims to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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In July 2016, just before Mr. Trump clinched the Republican nomination, Mr. Manafort offered campaign briefings to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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Two other Russian companies and 13 Russians, including an oligarch named Yevgeny Prigozhin, are also charged in the case but have not appeared in US courts to enter their pleas.
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MOSCOW — Already spurned by Britain, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has suffered another blow in his search for residency in Western Europe, this time with a court ruling in Switzerland.
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Among the people indicted was Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, an oligarch who is close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and finances the Internet Research Agency with the Kremlin's backing.
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A second Russian oligarch was stopped during a recent trip to the US, although it is not clear if he was searched, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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His office on Down Street was abuzz as the oligarch and his acolytes made sense of what had happened and conspired to ram home the message of their friend's murder.
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In an article featuring the photographs, a Ukrainian news outlet noted that Mr. Lanza helped lift sanctions against the corporate empire of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin ally.
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U.S. Attorney Rebekah Donaleski said Tuesday that a lawyer for oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who is facing criminal charges in the U.S., was behind the payment, according to the wire service.
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Tuesday's verdict reinstates a decision by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ordering the Russian state to compensate shareholders in the company once headed by fallen oligarch Khodorkovsky.
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In a statement, Bloomberg's campaign acknowledged that it did not know who committed the act but said that the use of the term oligarch echoed the language used by Sanders.
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Tuesdays verdict reinstates a decision by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ordering the Russian state to compensate shareholders in the company once headed by fallen oligarch Khodorkovsky.
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Its goal is to combat the chokehold of vacant 4-million-pound oligarch flats through initiatives like the "Bankside Urban Forest," which develops fallow space into pocket parks, pathways, plazas.
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But the populist party leading in the polls was created by Andrej Babis, an oligarch currently serving as finance minister, whose holdings include some of the country's leading food producers.
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The oligarch had been arrested in Vienna in 2014, at the American authorities' request, after his indictment on charges of bribing Indian officials for permission to mine titanium for Boeing.
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Both appear to have had pecuniary ties to Mr. Putin's allies — in Mr. Manafort's case, a politician and an oligarch; in Mr. Flynn's case, RT, the news and propaganda network.
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The son-in-law of a Russian oligarch Alex Van der Zwaan pleaded guilty on Tuesday to lying to federal officials about alleged links between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign.
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When he pleaded guilty, Patten admitted that he illegally funneled money from a Russia-friendly oligarch to Trump's inauguration fund, and that he lied about it to a congressional committee.
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"We believe that this pressure on the National Bank is exerted by oligarch and PrivatBank co-owner Ihor Kolomoisky, who owes the state $5.5 billion," it said in a statement.
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And the description of the oligarch matches that of Serhiy Lyovochkin, who serves in the Ukrainian parliament and is an official in the Opposition Bloc, according to interviews and documents.
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His worst songs sound like rejected James Bond movie theme songs, and his best songs sound like no one would care about them if his dad weren't a Russian oligarch.
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" The reporters also offered to the FBI and DOJ officials that [Russian oligarch Oleg] "Deripaska&aposs current lawyer is threatening to sue them over their article about his relationship with Manafort.
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"I definitely do have concerns about that news report," Collins told CNN's Manu Raju Wednesday, after the Associated Press reported Manafort worked for a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.
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And the company benefiting from one unprecedented recent move is part of the business empire of a Ukrainian oligarch who hired former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, now a convicted felon.
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The money was allegedly funneled through a front business believed to be controlled by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch nicknamed "Putin's Chef" due to early involvement in the food industry.
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Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, who was arrested in France late last year and named in the list of sanctioned individuals, also appeared in a recent BuzzFeed News investigation into Russian cyberactivity.
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Strache quit on Saturday after video emerged showing him discussing fixing state contracts in return for financial and political favours with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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The attention in Avenatti's report is focused on Columbus Nova LLC, an investment firm run by Andrew Intrater that is linked to Renova Group, a company owned by Russian oligarch Vekselberg.
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"This Syrian oligarch is directly supporting the murderous Assad regime and building luxury developments on land stolen from those fleeing his brutality," Sigal Mandelker, a Treasury official, said in a statement.
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A video had surfaced, apparently showing Mr Strache discussing the exchange of public contracts for favourable media coverage with a woman who claimed to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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In the last hour, you heard The Hill&aposs John Solomon tell us about Special Counsel Bob Mueller&aposs possible conflict of interest due to his ties to a Russian oligarch.
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"I found all of these shell companies set up in Las Vegas, Nevada—where Mossack Fonseca had an office—by an Argentine oligarch who had been linked to corruption," he says.
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Many recall the bid in 2012 of Mikhail Prokhorov, the oligarch who owns the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, which was widely seen as a Kremlin ploy to absorb the protest vote.
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At the end of 2017 Rusal was one of the world's largest aluminium producers, with an enterprise value of $18bn, controlled by Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin. Kapow!
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It does not help that fishing, the port and most other businesses on the islands are in the hands of a single oligarch, who is presumably not eager to see competition.
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The Dubai-based model and the oligarch, who've been together five years and have two kids, wed in a multimillion-dollar event at Barvikha Luxury Village in Moscow, according to Bravo.
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Strache quit on Saturday after video emerged showing him discussing fixing state contracts in return for financial and political favors with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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The Senate, where Republicans have a slim majority, narrowly failed last month to pass a resolution disapproving of Trump's easing of sanctions on Russian companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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Manafort apparently promised Deripaska could receive private briefings on the state of the Trump campaign and was told that his position with Trump would "hugely enhance his reputation" with the oligarch.
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One of the companies linked to Manafort, PEM Advisors Limited, was involved in a multimillion-dollar deal with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to court documents filed in the Cayman Islands.
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She was seen as a last-ditch effort to free the country from the influence of oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, accused of using political influence for personal gain, a charge he denies.
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He said he showed a trailer to DiCaprio three years ago on the yacht of a mutual friend, the real-estate oligarch Vladimir Zemstov, in the French resort of Saint Tropez.
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An explosive investigation by the Associated Press Wednesday revealed that the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian oligarch to help advance the interests of Vladimir Putin.
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That scrutiny intensified last week after porn star Stormy Daniels' lawyer revealed that a US investment firm with ties to a Russian oligarch made payments to Cohen's consulting firm, Essential Consultants.
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Another cooperator in the Mueller investigation, lobbyist W. Samuel Patten, also had contact with Kilimnik through 20173, as they secured tickets to the Trump inauguration for a paying Ukrainian oligarch client.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that Novartis, AT&T and a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin paid Cohen through a shell company called Essential Consultants LLC.
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Kent, while explaining the State Department "spent roughly half a million dollars" building the case against the oligarch, told lawmakers that he confronted another of Shokin's deputies personally over the case.
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On the list was a Post Online article that called Ukraine "an oligarch state with no independent media" and raised the country's horrific record in World War II against Polish Jews.
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Vitter, who has registered as a foreign agent, lobbied with several countries' ambassadors and the Treasury Department to ease punishing sanctions imposed on major aluminum firms tied to oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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And this month, Mr. Avenatti took the unusual step of posting leaked financial records that he said showed that Mr. Cohen received money from a firm linked to a Russian oligarch.
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He was no longer just another oligarch who had made an unimaginable fortune in the dubious, chaotic world of post-Soviet Russia, drawing private profit from the country's vast mineral wealth.
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Leaked documents published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in November revealed that Kushner has ties to a Russian oligarch who has helped the Kremlin invest in Facebook and Twitter.
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The letter claims that their lives are at risk and reiterates the offer of inside information about communications between the oligarch, the deputy prime minister and people in the United States.
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Manafort will now have to tell Mueller's investigators all about his relationship with the Russian oligarch, and whether their communications during the campaign were more substantial than has been previously acknowledged.
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And the Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it intended to lift sanctions against the companies of a Russian oligarch, Oleg V. Deripaska, seen above with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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Speaking to reporters at the White House in late July, Mr. Mnuchin said the aim of sanctions was to "change the behavior of the oligarch," not to punish his aluminum business.
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She asked Aras Agalarov, a well-connected Russian oligarch who knows the Trump family, to help her share her allegations with the Trump campaign, according to Mr. Agalarov's attorney, Scott Balber.
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How is that possible, when there have already been multiple attempts to tell the story of the Russian oligarch-turned-dissident before now, including two documentaries, released in 2011 and 2015.
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A more unified American voice might help in other areas, too: Worries remain about the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky's influence over the government, as well as the new political elite's relative inexperience.
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We also expect Russia to respond to the new US sanctions, issued last week against seven oligarchs, 12 oligarch owned companies, Russian government officials, and the Russian state-owned weapons company.
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The lawsuit was brought by Alexander Gliklad, a Russian-born businessman, who charged that Mr. Deripaska had used his diplomatic status as a cover to do business, which the oligarch denied.
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Intelligence officials believe that one of the people the Kremlin relied on to spread disinformation about Ukrainian interference was Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who had ties to Mr. Manafort.
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But 2900 months in, lots of attention on this CNN: Mueller's team questioned a Russian oligarch about payments his company's U.S. affiliate made to Trump attorney Michael Cohen following the election.
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The latest: In a filing Tuesday, prosecutors said the money came from a Swiss lawyer to Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch fighting extradition to the U.S. on bribery and racketeering charges.
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In Vancouver, the Trump Organization partnered with the son of Tony Tiah Thee Kian, a Malaysian oligarch who was convicted of providing a false report to the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange.
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It consists of heavily beaded and fur-trimmed dresses, high necked and long sleeved, vaguely reminiscent of Russian peasant styles, available only to those with the deep pockets of an oligarch.
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However, the LCIA ruling said payment should only be made on bonds which are not held by PrivatBank's former shareholders and their beneficiaries, which includes Kolomoisky and another oligarch Gennadiy Bogolyubov.
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If you want a watch that looks like a Russian oligarch just curled up around your wrist and died, you might be interested in the latest model of Rolex's Sky-Dweller.
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His attorney, William Schwartz, noted that Van Der Zwaan's wife, the daughter of Russian oligarch German Khan, is six months pregnant and has had some difficulty in London without her husband.
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An longtime advisor to billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has cut ties with a Ukrainian oligarch who once made a six-figure donation to President Donald Trump's now-defunct foundation.
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Lawmakers were to examine the Republican Trump administration's actions toward Moscow, including the U.S. Department of Treasury's recent ones regarding several Russian companies owned and controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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A Ukrainian oligarch with gas interests, Firtash was indicted by the US Department of Justice for alleged bribery back in 2014, and has been stuck in Austria fighting extradition ever since.
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And then the main thing is that they joined the legal team of this shady Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who was another kind of like center point for all this stuff.
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As part of his plea deal, Patten admitted to seeking tickets to Trump's inauguration on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch, according to court documents, and ultimately paid $50,000 for four tickets.
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Prosecutors recently said Parnas received $1 million from a lawyer who represents Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who was once accused by the Justice Department of having ties to the Russian mafia.
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That same year Petr Kellner, a Czech billionaire oligarch and supporter of Mr Zeman's, won a coveted Chinese national licence for one of his companies, Home Credit, to make consumer loans.
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Mr. Lebedev's father Aleksandr, a Russian oligarch and former K.G.B. agent, bought the paper in 2009, transforming it into a free newspaper that was distributed to commuters across the British capital.
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NBC News reported Friday that Manafort is linked to a previously unreported $26 million loan from a company owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties to the Kremlin.
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She is the daughter of German Khan, a Russian oligarch who is suing research firm Fusion GPS over a dossier alleging salacious and unverified ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.
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Warner communicated with lobbyist Adam Waldman, whose firm has reported ties to a Russian oligarch, in an attempt to make contact with Christopher Steele, the author of the controversial Trump dossier.
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The charging document says that Patten and the unidentified Russian national formed a company that since 2015 did work for the Opposition Bloc party and party members who included the oligarch.
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The company's co-founder, the Russian-born US citizen Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, which receives funding from Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
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Vashukevich, who is known on social media by the name Nastya Rybka, claims that she is the former mistress of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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That record was shattered in 2012 when a penthouse on Central Park West was sold to a Russian oligarch for $88 million, soon to be topped by a $100 million sale.
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What might be called the Court of Putin — the top 40 to 50 people in the Kremlin and their oligarch allies — will spend the next presidential term brawling over that future.
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Mr. Manafort told Mr. Craig that the oligarch wanted his involvement to remain anonymous, according to emails cited in a settlement released last month between the firm and the Justice Department.
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The small, bi-annual publication (which is offered in both Russian and English) is run by fashion world figure Dasha Zhukova, who's married to Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.
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But hashtag-Resistance types have zeroed in on $500,000 in payments from US equity firm Columbus Nova, whose CEO Andrew Intrater is a cousin and investment partner of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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A Russian oligarch closely tied to Vladimir Putin met with President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen at Trump Tower less than two weeks before the inauguration, The New York Times reported Friday.
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The Washington Post has reported that Manafort — who was at one point $10 million in debt to the Russian oligarch — offered Deripaska "private briefings" at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"You can just cleanse them of their oligarch manager and basically destroy or abolish this joint stock company of oligarchs that is what they see, what they regard, as Ukraine," he said.
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Mikhail Fridman, the billionaire banker who owns Alfa Group, is pursuing him through courts for a large credit repayment; Viktor Vekselberg, another oligarch, is suing him for $500m in a business dispute.
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The Treasury has said, for instance, it will lift delayed sanctions on Russian aluminum company Rusal after Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska reduces his stake in Rusal and relinquishes control of the company.
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Aluminum markets, roiled for weeks by U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and the massive Rusal aluminum producer he controls, calmed with the extension of a sanctions deadline to Oct. 23.
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According to the Post, those included AT&T, pharmaceutical company Novartis, a Korean defense contractor and Columbus Nova, a New York-based investment firm which has been linked to a Russian oligarch.
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This prompts speculation that Mr Zelensky, too, is the puppet of an oligarch, though so far it is Mr Kolomoisky who owes money to Mr Zelensky rather than the other way around.
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With Russian aluminum producer Rusal imploding in the wake of U.S. sanctions against its oligarch owner Oleg Deripaska, attention is now turning to the status of another Russian industrial powerhouse, Norilsk Nickel.
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Zelensky is accused of being the puppet of controversial oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky who owns the TV channel that Zelensky's comedy shows (made by Zelensky's production company Kvartal-95 Studio) have appeared on.
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The Yekaterinburg Sports Palace—where this fight happened—was more like a boxing hall built by a Russian oligarch who went over budget and scrambled to finish in time for the bout.
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With Russian aluminium producer Rusal imploding in the wake of U.S. sanctions against its oligarch owner Oleg Deripaska, attention is now turning to the status of another Russian industrial powerhouse, Norilsk Nickel.
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The Treasury Department also announced Tuesday that it would lift previously imposed sanctions on three companies, including the aluminum giant Rusal, after Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska divested his holdings in the companies.
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Avenatti's most recent disclosures show that Cohen used Essential Consultants to bill corporate clients, including one, Columbus Nova, an investment firm run by Andrew Intrater, a cousin of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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Deripaska, a billionaire oligarch who previously ran Rusal, was also slapped with sanctions and has been charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation regarding Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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The payment from Columbus Nova appears to be the first confirmed financial exchange between a Russian oligarch and a member of Trump's inner circle since he became the Republican nominee in 2016.
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Akhmetov, an oligarch active in Ukrainian politics and Aras Agalarov, the wealthy Russian who is also close to Putin and who Donald Trump cultivated ties with in a 2013 trip to Moscow.
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The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on the aluminum company of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska caused a 30 percent spike in the price of the metal and threatened global supply chains.
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Three top House Democrats have formally requested documents related to the Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on companies connected to a prominent Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"I want you to go work with the US, not go on a tourist trip," a Russian oligarch who funded at least one of her trips told her, according to US prosecutors.
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This Montenegrin politician-cum-oligarch was involved in the Hungarian company Magyar Telecom bribery scheme in 2011, where his sister, Ana Kolarevic, reportedly helped to acquire Montenegro's state-owned carrier, Crnogorski Telekom.
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Dubelier does not represent in court other Russians indicted in the conspiracy, including the oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, though Prigozhin is said to be behind the company's operations leading up to the election.
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"Treasury sanctioned these companies because of their ownership and control by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, not for the conduct of the companies themselves," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement.
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A coalition of human rights groups has recalled a complaint asking the United States to sanction Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash after questions surfaced about the accuracy of their allegations against the businessman.
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RUSAL: The U.S. Senate will begin voting on Tuesday on a resolution criticising the Trump administration's decision to ease sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including aluminium giant Rusal.
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Hours after the hearing, The New York Times revealed that President Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had pressed Barr to look into dealings between Joe Biden's son and a Ukrainian oligarch.
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Other business associates, including Manafort's son-in-law and a Ukrainian oligarch, have been contacted by Mueller's team in an attempt to pressure Manafort into cooperating with prosecutors, one source told Bloomberg.
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The startup TriPlay, which sources told us acquired eMusic for less than $26 million, has to date raised $16 million from Eastern European oligarch Kenges Rakishev, Fortress Investment Group, and Koch himself.
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In opinion pieces, Mr. Grenell defended Vladimir Plahotniuc, a Moldovan oligarch and politician, casting the accusations of corruption against him and his political party as Russian propaganda, as first reported by ProPublica.
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But in addition to its mom-and-pop customers, the bank has a lesser-known clientele that includes Russia's richest oligarch, Leonid Mikhelson, an ally of the country's president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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The oligarch, Konstantin Nikolaev, emerged in July as the enigmatic backer of Maria Butina, the activist charged with conspiring to use the National Rifle Association to cultivate Republicans in the United States.
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The offer would have been easily disregarded were it not for a recent investigation by Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, that gives some credence to her association with an influential oligarch.
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Petr Aven, the oligarch chairman of the Russian Alfa-Bank, had sought — at Putin's direction — intermediaries to push for a communications channel to improve US-Russia relations, according to the Mueller Report.
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Mr. Deripaska would remain on the sanctions list, the department said, casting the agreement as a way to punish the oligarch by separating him from his companies without creating broader economic problems.
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The firm is headed by Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch who is not only close to Mr. Putin, but also a one-time business partner of Mr. Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
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Facing the prospect that Mr. Firtash might sway Mr. Yanukovych and use his connections to help him remain in power, the United States asked Austria to arrest the oligarch, the judge said.
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Mr. Weaver feuded with a former business partner of Mr. Manafort's and Mr. Gates's when their work with Mr. Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, vexed the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.
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Fort Ross, a California state historic park that commemorates a 19th-century Russian settlement in Sonoma County, was struggling in 2010 when Viktor F. Vekselberg, another oligarch, stepped in to help financially.
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The company's oligarch owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, had been a subject of cases overseen by the prosecutor, and so Mr. Trump contends that Mr. Biden sought the prosecutor's ouster to benefit his son.
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He will be an oligarch in the Russian mold: a rich man who used his wealth to gain political power and who would use political power to enrich himself once in office.
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