Panama Papers Reveal Clinton’s Kremlin Connection
Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C. ...
As reported at the end of March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. Government as a lobbyist for Sberbank, as required by law, naming three Podesta Group staffers: Tony Podesta plus Stephen Rademaker and David Adams, the last two former assistant secretaries of state
American Billionaires Vanish From Russian Fund's Website
Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman, TPG founder David Bonderman and Apollo Global Management LLC founder Leon Black became advisers to the Russian Direct Investment Fund in 2011. ...
The photos and names of the international board members were removed from the fund's website after Kurt Björklund, the co-managing partner of London's Permira, resigned from the board and was removed from the list at the end of August. ...
Pictures of Martin Halusa, the chairman of London's Apax Partners LLP, and Joseph Schull the European chief of Warburg Pincus, have also disappeared from the Russian fund's website. They also declined to comment.
Meet the Russian Billionaires That Took on BP and Won
BP gets bitch-slapped every time the oil company tussles with its TNK-BP partners -- several Russian oligarchs who own the massive financial and industrial conglomerate Alfa Group Consortium.
Gawker Gets its First Outside Investment Ever, From a Russian Oligarch
Founder and CEO Nick Denton confirmed on Wednesday that he has agreed to sell a minority stake in the company to an investment fund called Columbus Nova Technology Partners. ...
Columbus Nova is the U.S. investment arm of the Renova Group and owns Rhapsody and several other technology companies, including what used to be Sony Online Entertainment, makers of the game Everquest.
Renova, which was founded by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, is an industrial conglomerate that has investments in the mining, chemical, construction, housing, and financial sectors. Vekselberg’s net worth is estimated at $18 billion.
One of the most frequented front page of reddit news sources is "The Independent" is owned by a former KGB operative and a Saudi Arabian investor.
Russian Businessman and former KGB operative Alexander Lebedev is the primary stakeholder. He worked as a KGB operative in London during the 80s.
Saudi investor Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a fairly behind the scenes investor that owns 30% of the media outlet. He's apparently a big wig in NCB Capital, an energy and international real estate firm.
Yuri Vanetik
Russian born US financier, Yuri Vanetik practiced corporate law in the 1990s. Yuri Vanetik then became involved in energy related projects in Asia, US, and Eastern Europe.
Yuri Vanetik has served as State of California Co-Chair for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign ... Yuri was in the state finance leadership for the late Senator John McCain's Presidential Campaign and was also a member of Senator McCain's Kitchen Cabinet.
Ivan Sigal
After receiving a Professional Development Fellowship in photography from the Institute for International Education, Sigal moved to Moscow to document the shifting social landscape in Russia...
Who are the Silicon valley Cartel Members?
- Yuri Savinkov
- George Trifonov
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Boris Zingarevich
- Alexey Mordashov
How Do You Know That Zero Hedge is a Russian Information Operation? Here’s How
@Markit-Not Russian, but Bulgarian. And a Bulgarian whose father has a resume that is clearly Bulgarian KGB that puts him in African conflict zones at the same time as Sechin. I wrote about that in my original post in November, 2011 (which is linked in this post). But this fact does need to be emphasized more.
Alexei Saab allegations highlight disturbing pattern of dubious hires at CUNY
Baruch adjunct Juan Lazaro, was outed as a Russian spy in 2010.
Kremlin-owned Firms Linked to Major Investments in Twitter and Facebook
one of the Kremlin-owned firms, VTB Bank, quietly directed $191 million into an investment fund, DST Global, that used the money to buy a large stake in Twitter in 2011.
DST Global’s founder, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, and other partners in the deals reaped large gains when they sold their stakes shortly after Facebook’s initial public offering in 2012 and Twitter’s in 2013.
Esalen Insitute Russian-American Exchange Center
Visited the Soviet Union during the US boycotted Olympic games and gave speeches prior to the Olympics in Tbilisi, Georgia on human potentialities and possibilities for Soviet-American cooperation in various fields.
Gathered a group of diverse Americans at Esalen Institute to discuss the worrisome state of the US-Soviet relationship. It was at this historic meeting that the decision was made to found the Esalen Soviet-American Exchange Program. And it was also at this meeting that TRACK TWOs chairman of the board, Joseph Montville coined the term ¿Track Two Diplomacy,¿ diplomacy that parallels government diplomacy. Founders of the Exchange Program, Dulce and Michael Murphy, first Executive Director and founder Jim Hickman and founder Mary Payne were in attendance, as well as current board member Jay Ogilvy and advisor John Marks.
Vladimir Voronkov, former head of the European Co-operation Department at Russian Foreign Ministry, become Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism in 2017.
