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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wealthy Russian political and business leaders flocked to Washington, DC — and the lobby of Trump International Hotel — during last year’s inauguration festivities, The Washington Post reported Saturday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As questions about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election were beginning to percolate publicly, prominent business leaders and activists from that country attended inaugural festivities, mingling at balls and receptions — at times in proximity to key American political officials,” The Post reported.</font></div><div>
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Their presence caught the attention of counterintelligence officials at the FBI, according to former U.S. officials, although it is not clear which attendees drew U.S. government interest,” The Post continued. “FBI officials were concerned at the time because some of the figures had surfaced in the agency’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, the officials said.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller, attended a black-tie party hosted by Rep. Dana Rohrahbacher (R-CA). <b>Rep. Rohrabacher has been nicknamed, “Putin’s favorite congressman.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Other guests included tycoon Viktor Vekselberg and Russian politician Boris Titov.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s strange,” noted ex-Russia ambassador Michael McFaul, who didn’t remember Russians attending former President Barack Obama’s inauguration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alexey Repik, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive, documented his adventures on Facebook, including a photo taken with Mike Pompeo, the Kansas Republican who was eventually chosen by Trump to head up the CIA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Repik allegedly also met Eric Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch Seth Meyers answer “Who the hell is Dana Rohrabacher?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><span style="" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Titov, like several of the Russian elites who attended Trump's inauguration, declined to say how he obtained his tickets, only that they came "via our friends — entrepreneurs in the Republican Party.""</font></span></div><div><span style="" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">old consort news</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another Thumbs Up</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the more telling “thumbs up” evaluation came on the next featured program of the Rossiya-1/Vesti-24 channel, “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Soloviev,” which has a deserved reputation as the most serious political talk show in the country. It was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ0wQ8qDk_Y" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom: 1px dotted; text-decoration-line: none;">posted on Youtube.com</a>immediately after airing on nationwide television and within 12 hours had received more than 280,000 views, which is a fair indication of its popularity with Russia’s chattering classes.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Vladimir Soloviev show is important precisely because of the array of panelists having their own power bases and contributing what was complementary but clearly defined and individualistic appreciations of why the conversation between the presidents was so promising.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the panelists and the first to speak was Vyacheslav Nikonov, who as the grandson of Molotov may be called hereditary Soviet aristocracy; he is also chairman of the Duma’s Committee on Education; member of the top governing body of United Russia, chairman of the Board of Russky Mir, the NGO supporting Russian culture and the Russian diaspora abroad.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Second in the pecking order was Aleksei Pushkov, chairman of the Commission on Information Policy in the Federation Council and from 2011 to 2016 chairman of the Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs. Other notables included Oleg Morozov, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council; Andrei Sidorov, head of the World Politics Department, Moscow State University; and Sergei Stankevich, head of the International Contacts section in the center-right Party of Growth (Boris <b>Titov</b>).</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div>