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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Russian attempts to woo American white supremacists have backfired</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A quarter-century after American neo-fascists began looking to Russia for support, the relationship is on its heels.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CASEY MICHEL</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>APR 20, 2018, </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The National Rifle Association (NRA) doesn’t want to talk about its relationship with Russia. For months, the gun lobby has avoided questions from lawmakers on its ties to Russian officials specifically sanctioned by Washington — all the more after the NRA’s primary contact in Russia, Alexander Torshin, was named in the latest round of U.S. sanctions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the NRA is only one facet of a nexus of strange links between the American far-right and those close to the Kremlin. From Christian fundamentalists swooning for Russian President Vladimir Putin, to American secessionists repeatedly traveling to Moscow, to far-right media mouthpieces finding a home on Russian propaganda outlets, these ties have only grown — and grown more notorious — over the past few years.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indeed, no foreign entity has provided as much support for these far-right causes recently as those in Moscow, where those with conspicuous ties to the Kremlin worked to cultivate and coalesce these American movements that, in the age of Trump, have gained new credence.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[A photo shared by Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin (right), then under U.S. sanctions, which appears to show him standing alongside the NRA's Joe Gregory, Pete Brownell, and David Keene in Moscow in Dec. 2015. (CREDIT: TWITTER)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The NRA tried to dodge questions about its ties to Russia, but Congress isn’t done yet</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Wyden sends another letter to the NRA after the gun advocacy group dodged his previous queries about ties to Russia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However, the recent scrutiny on the relationship between Russian officials and the NRA demonstrates how this attempt to make inroads with far-right groups in the U.S. can backfire. And that backlash is even starker when it comes to the cooperation Kremlin-linked figures have pursued with American white supremacists. After an embarrassing series of setbacks in 2018, America’s young white supremacists — the new generation of white nationalists who burst forth during the Trump campaign — are on their heels, battered by bad press, and, in certain cases, facing significant jail time.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ties between American white nationalists and Russians extend beyond the past few years. And those ties haven’t produced anywhere near the success many expected. In fact, over the past few months, they have effectively imploded.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Despite reports that Putin’s intimates routinely referred to former President Barack Obama as the n-word or “monkey,” American white supremacists had connected with Russians long before his presidency. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The first significant ties between white supremacists and neo-fascists in Russia and the U.S. can be traced to the immediate aftermath of World War II, when a number of American far-right figures — including noted fascist Harold Keith Thompson — built up contacts with Soviet agents.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>KGB operatives also recruited Americans in the 1970s to deface synagogues in Washington and New York, while further paying them to “desecrate Jewish cemeteries,” as one KGB general wrote in his memoirs.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since Vladimir Putin's return to power in 2012, the Western far-right has looked to Russia for support. (CREDIT: AP/MIKE STEWART)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Inside Russia’s alliance with white nationalists across the globe</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Given that the Soviet Union was the great boogeyman for much of the American far-right, these initial connections were only explored to a limited extent. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Russian fascists surged amidst the Soviet rubble, American white supremacists took a fresh look at Moscow.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The first, most prominent neo-fascist to travel to a newly independent Russia appears to be Lyndon LaRouche. A font of anti-Semitic conspiracy, LaRouche found fertile ground in Russia.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ACCORDING TO HIS MAGAZINE, LYNDON LAROUCHE’S IDEAS REACHED MOSCOW IN A TIME OF “TROUBLES.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 1992, LaRouche’s Schiller Institute joined with the Russian State Humanitarian University to organize a conference on “Alternative Approaches to Economic Reform.” As LaRouche’s magazine would later relate, his ideas had “reach[ed] Moscow in time of troubles,” with his teachings, according to one conference participant, “open[ing] for us a new world.” The American fascist even managed at one point to speak in front of the entire Russian parliament.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">LaRouche also partnered with Sergei Glazyev,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a one-time Minister of External Economic Relations of the Russian Federation who later joined the opposition against President Boris Yeltsin.<b> Glazyev’s patronage, as researcher Anton Shekhovtsov would write, allowed LaRouche to become “an opinion maker and commentator on political and economic issues in Russia — a status that LaRouche could not enjoy in his home country where he has remained a fringe political figure.”</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Russia presents “an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race,” said David Duke.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">LaRouche was soon superseded in Russia by another American white supremacist, however — one who gained newfound prominence decades later during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. It’s unclear how David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader and anti-Semitic white supremacist extraordinaire, first ended up in Russia. Regardless of how he landed there, Duke says that his five years in Russia were some of the most productive in his life.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duke sold his books in the Russian parliament and attended numerous white supremacist conferences in the country, often as the lone American representative. Toward the turn of the century, Duke began saying that Russia presented “an unmatched opportunity to help protect the longevity of the white race.” He clarified that Moscow — a city he said had “the largest number of [w]hite people of any city in the entire world” — was the “key to white survival.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Along the way, Duke brought other American neo-fascists to Moscow, including Preston Wiginton, a Texas white supremacist who courted Russian skinheads in his own right.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Duke never managed to build the official ties LaRouche amassed.</b> However, one photo hints at the types of audiences Duke attained while in Russia. In a black suit and maroon tie, Duke stands next to a man with a scraggly beard, a dark blazer, and drooping eyes — <b>a man who would, in years to come, be referred to as “Putin’s Brain,” and who would become one of the primary nodes between Russian circles and American white nationalists.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Duke (left) and Alexander Dugin (right) pose in an undated photo.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVID DUKE (LEFT) AND ALEXANDER DUGIN (RIGHT) POSE IN AN UNDATED PHOTO.]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The rise of Eurasianism</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Before detailing the features and fascism coursing Alexander Dugin’s history and writings, a necessary caveat: It’s easy to overstate the importance of Dugin, the man in the undated photo with Duke. Despite the catchy descriptors, Dugin’s direct ties to Putin appear, at best, scant. We know of only one official meeting between the two, in 2000, shortly after Putin rose to the presidency.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still, that one meeting paid dividends. “Dugin refuses to discuss the meeting,” wrote Charles Clover, a journalist who has covered Dugin in depth. “[B]ut it would change his career. <b>Soon there were sponsors, contacts, and open doors.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Putin may have kept Dugin at an arm’s length, security officials had no problem catering to him, and allowing him to teach a new generation of Russian military officers. As his profile rose, Dugin began lecturing at Russia’s General Staff Academy and his material was eventually assigned to every member of the academy.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alexander Dugin, the leader of the Eurasian Movement, left, and his supporters sing during a rally of Russian nationalist groups in central Moscow, Sunday, April 8, 2007. CREDIT: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The frightening common ground between a Trump adviser and white nationalism’s favorite philosopher</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, sees Dugin’s ideology as an ally against liberalism.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Much of that comity from Russian officials stemmed from Dugin’s theories, which center primarily on “Eurasianism,” itself a geopolitical theory that was little more than soft cover for Russian imperialism.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Dugin’s theories are buried in fabricated history. As Yale historian Timothy Snyder notes, Dugin is a “[c]ontemporary Russian fascist,</b>” one whose “references are German Nazis and postwar West European fascists.” Dugin’s primary theory, positing Russia as a country eternally at war with the U.S., builds upon the work of Lev Gumilev, himself a resounding fraud.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To be sure, Dugin’s theories were easy to mock. As Clover wrote, Eurasianists’ theories “are barely credible and are best understood as a sort of metaphor.” But as one researcher on the Russian right said about Dugin’s 1997 Foundations of Geopolitics, “There has probably not been another book published in Russia during the post-communist period which has exerted a comparable influence on Russian military, police, and statist foreign policy elites.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alexander Dugin, the leader of the Eurasian Movement (far right) takes part in a Russian nationalists’ rally in support of Serbia in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 27, 2008. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The white nationalist movement’s favorite philosopher</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dugin’s connections to America’s racist circuit is well established.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For many in Moscow, particularly within the Russian security services, Dugin’s theories offered a way back for the Kremlin and Russian imperialism writ large. Ignoring Dugin’s own fascism — he named his alter ego after a Nazi official in charge of paranormal research, after all — officials during the Putin years lapped up Dugin’s teachings. During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin appeared to be doing little more than following Dugin’s own ideas for Ukrainian fracture.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Marlene Laruelle, a professor at George Washington University, wrote, “The influence of [Dugin’s] personality and his works must not be underestimated.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A new world</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2014, Russia appeared ascendant, boasting a successful Olympic Games, a stronger post-2008 economic recovery than many Western states, and the perceived ability to out-dance the U.S. at every step, from Edward Snowden to events in Syria.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the annexation of Crimea, nationalists — white nationalists, especially — across the U.S. looked to Putin for guidance. He was, said one, now the head of the “last great White empire.” All the while, Dugin acted as the lynch pin binding Russia’s growing ties with the Western far-right.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These new ties between Moscow, Russian nationalists, and America’s neo-fascists over the past few years centered on the two most prominent young American white supremacists the 21st century has produced.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Richard Spencer’s wife called Dugin a “well-educated scholar” with a “rare intellectual caliber.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first is Richard Spencer, the infamously dubbed “dapper white nationalist.” In 2014, Spencer managed to organize a conference in Budapest, Hungary, for like-minded fascists. “The Future of Europe,” he called it. The keynote speaker was slated to be none other than Dugin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Unfortunately for them both, Hungary barred Dugin’s entry, citing sanctions, while Spencer was detained and eventually expelled from the country.</b> But shortly thereafter, Spencer would be writing for Dugin’s site, sharing Dugin’s thoughts with his own followers, and pushing pro-Russian policies.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— Alexandr Dugin (@A_G_Dugin) December 19, 2016</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Buzzfeed in 2014 reported that Spencer said he knew Dugin “personally,” it’s still unclear how Dugin first came across Spencer’s radar: Spencer doesn’t speak Russian, and Dugin’s English remains broken.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, in the final days of the American presidential campaign, a series of clues emerged tying the two together.<b> It turned out that Spencer had married a woman named Nina Kouprianova, who had, over the few years prior, pushed a steady stream of pro-Russia, and pro-Dugin, material to her own followers.</b></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Originally from the Soviet Union, Kouprianova — writing under the name “Nina Byzantina” — had whitewashed Putin’s regime at every turn, appearing on Russian propaganda networks as an “independent scholar” and claiming that Russia had “chosen the path… of healthy debate.” (Spencer, as it is, also appeared on RT multiple times, described by the channel as the editor of an “online culture journal.”)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kouprianova also acted as one of Dugin’s translators. With her fluency in both Russian and English, she helped introduce Dugin’s writings and theories into English — some of which would later be published via Spencer’s own publishing house. Rather than point to his fascism, chauvinism, or sheer fraudulence, Kouprianova claimed Dugin was a “well-educated scholar” with a “rare intellectual caliber.” He was, she said, “one of the greatest minds of our time.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All of this, as Spencer began referring to Russia as the “sole white power in the world.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the Spencer-Kouprianova tandem wasn’t the only pair tying directly back to Dugin, or recruiting American white supremacists toward the Kremlin’s perceived court philosopher. <b>Matthew Heimbach</b> acted as Russian nationalists’ other twin American pole, around whom people like Dugin could expand their following.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the presidential campaign started, Heimbach was already one of the leading figures among the young white supremacists backing Trump; in 2016, he was arrested for shoving an anti-Trump protester at a Trump rally.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But where Spencer relied on his supposed intellect, Heimbach preferred grassroots organizing — acting, in a sense, as the brawn to Spencer’s brain. By 2015, Heimbach had decided the he would form his own organization, which he would call the Traditionalist Worker Party.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Traditionalist Worker Party didn’t hide its bigotry. In time, it would grow into a “major energizing and motivating factor for young racists,” as the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ryan Lenz told ThinkProgress. And at its launch party, there was only one logical voice to christen them: Dugin.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I see Russia as kind of the axis for nationalists,” Heimbach said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a speech — this time by video, as Dugin was barred from entering the U.S. — Dugin issued a “common message” to his “American friends,” exhorting Heimbach and his followers to success. “I’m very glad that I can address you,” Dugin said. “The actual modern world is losing its identity — the cultur[e], the civilization, is in great danger, and I think, maybe, it’s the greatest danger in all our human history.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Heimbach, Dugin’s speech was “amazingly well-received, and exciting for the American white nationalist movement.” (Dugin would later present a similar speech at Texas A&M University, this time at the behest of none other than neo-Nazi Wiginton.)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Heimbach didn’t stop with Dugin. Soon thereafter, he announced plans to travel to Russia for the second annual conference — organized by the Russian Imperial Movement, itself an outgrowth of efforts from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin — focused on gathering leaders of the West’s white nationalists under one roof in St. Petersburg. (The 2015 conference had featured, among dozens of others, a former KKK lawyer and white supremacist Jared Taylor, one of Spencer’s ideological mentors.)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I see Russia as kind of the axis for nationalists,” Heimbach said. During the Soviet period, he added, “there was the Comintern, the Communist International. And in the modern era, it’s almost like a nationalist version — or the Traditionalist International.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The conference was postponed, but in 2017, Heimbach welcomed a representative from the Russian Imperial Movement to the U.S. — the first summit on American soil between an American white supremacist and an official representative of a notorious Russian nationalist movement. The Russian Imperial Movement, apparently impressed with Heimbach’s hospitality, said that, moving forward, “the task is to share the experience of political [and] information warfare,” as well as “joint squad tactics training.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[CREDIT: Facebook</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Russian, American white nationalists raise their flags in Washington]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“When we went to the White House, we took a photo with a Russian imperial flag,” Heimbach told ThinkProgress. “Hopefully before too long, when we’re able to meet in D.C., it will be on the terms of the Russian Imperial Movement [and] the new imperialist tsarist Russia meeting with the delegates from a free and independent white homeland.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Implosion</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late 2016, everything seemed right: for Russia, for America’s white supremacists, for the marriage between the two. Trump had been elected, promising good times and glad tidings to Moscow and the young white nationalists buoying his campaign. The future appeared bright.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Dugin reveled to extreme right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, “Anti-Americanism is over! Now the people of free America, free Russia, all anti-globalists of the world, should build a new world — a new architecture!”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A year later, however, that bright future has dimmed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump still refrains from criticizing Putin, and has undercut American efforts at propping up human and civil rights globally. But his election hasn’t proven to be nearly the panacea Russia expected, as Ukraine, Syria, and the ongoing sanctions regime illustrate.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For the young white supremacists riding Trump’s coattails, matters appear even worse.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Matthew Heimbach, along with Richard Spencer, have suddenly left young white supremacists without a clear leader. </b>CREDIT: GETTY / SCOTT OLSON]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With their leadership knocked out, young white supremacists face a directionless future</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following the collapse of Richard Spencer and Matthew Heimbach, the question of leadership rocks young white supremacists.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After last summer’s violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, membership among the young white supremacist cohort became more toxic than ever before, with any number of websites and platforms kicking off Spencer, Heimbach, and their ilk. Suddenly, no one showed up at Spencer’s events — at his nationwide tours, at his college appearances. He was, as Trump’s first year closed, now a bully without a pulpit. In March, he announced he would be rethinking his entire strategy, slinking back into the shadows.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heimbach’s fall, meanwhile, has been even more spectacular. He was recently arrested in his trailer after — in a twist as ludicrous as any over the past few years — having an affair with his mother-in-law, and battering his father-in-law when the latter found out</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. It was a bizarre ending for a man ThinkProgress had dubbed the “most important white supremacist” of 2016. Given a prior arrest, Heimbach is facing the prospect of significant jail time. And his Traditionalist Worker Party, by all appearances, is no more.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">White nationalists and mothers-in-law are never a good mix. CREDIT: THE WASHINGTON POST]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Leading white supremacist arrested following affair with mother-in-law</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Battery charges and the likelihood of a lengthy prison sentence now await Matthew Heimbach.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>And then there’s Dugin: The man who once had the Kremlin’s ear — or so he, and many, would claim — is out of a job, following his pro-genocidal comments aimed at Ukrainians. It’s unclear how, exactly, Dugin makes a living. But any interest in his teachings has effectively dried up</b>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As has Russia’s interests in American white supremacists — for the time being, at least. Dating from at least 2014, the ties seem to have peaked toward the end of 2016. But Trump’s victory, for both, appears increasingly hollow. And the dreams of a Traditionalist International, like the Comintern before it, appears all but dead.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, raised eyebrows when ThinkProgress <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/why-is-rudy-giuliani-scheduled-to-speak-alongside-a-sanctioned-russian-official-9133667cabbf/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">first reported</a> that he would be speaking alongside a sanctioned Russian official at a panel in Armenia on Tuesday.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The confusion was only amplified by the actual content of Giuliani’s speech — prompting observers to question why the former New York City mayor would be invited to speak about technology in the first place.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani appeared next to sanctioned Russian official Sergei </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Glazyev, a man <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/how-russia-wooed-american-white-supremacists-and-how-it-fell-apart-8a8cf6e3b814/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">with a history of working closely</a> with some of the U.S.’s most notorious anti-Semites</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The pair were on a panel at the Eurasian Week conference, an annual affair dedicated to the future of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/391370561/Program-for-Eurasian-Week-listing-Rudy-Giuliani-alongside-sanctioned-Russian-official-Sergei-Glazyev" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">topic</a> of Giuliani’s panel was “Technological breakthrough and EAEU potential,” a subject on which Giuliani would appear to have little expertise. But that lack of knowledge didn’t stop Giuliani — whom Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/12/trump-names-rudy-giuliani-as-cybersecurity-adviser/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">previously named</a> as an adviser on cybersecurity affairs — from speaking for roughly 20 minutes on topics ranging from sharing intelligence to electric grids to the safety of driver-less cars.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His lack of expertise on the various topics was immediately apparent to at least one member of the audience.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Giuliani showed up, and they gave him the podium, and he gave a talk on cybersecurity — but quite frankly it was a total bullshit talk,” one attendee, who requested anonymity, told ThinkProgress.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite Giuliani’s claims that he was in Armenia as a private citizen, both <a href="http://ereforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ru2018v6.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">conference material</a> and his own introduction identified him as an adviser to Trump. (Needless to say, Giuliani is the most prominent Trump adviser to now speak alongside a sanctioned Russian official in a supposedly private capacity.) And when he was <a href="https://news.am/eng/news/477359.html#.W88lVKU3bAQ.twitter" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">asked</a> whether the U.S. and EAEU could potentially cooperate in the realm of cybersecurity, Giuliani responded, “I don’t see any risks in sharing secrets on cybersecurity.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EAEU, of course, includes Russia, which led hacking and social media interference efforts to support Trump’s campaign and sow division across the U.S. Likewise, the EAEU was <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/05/vladimir-putins-impotent-eurasian-union/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">initially positioned</a> as the Kremlin’s grand geopolitical project following Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012 — although that project <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/armenia/2014-12-26/eurasian-disunion" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">eventually faltered</a> following Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite Giuliani’s nominal role as a cybersecurity adviser to the president, his work on the matter <a href="https://www.cyberscoop.com/rudy-giuliani-cybersecurity-policy-donald-trump/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">appears negligible</a>, and it’s unclear whether he’s accomplished anything of note while in the position — besides flying to Armenia to stand alongside Glazyev.</font></p><div class="related-contentwrapper" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/why-is-rudy-giuliani-scheduled-to-speak-alongside-a-sanctioned-russian-official-9133667cabbf/" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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</source></source></source></source></source></source></source></source></font></picture></div></figure></a></div><div class="related-contentbody" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 513px;"><h3 class="related-contenttitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: -7px 0px 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">[Why is Rudy Giuliani scheduled to speak alongside a sanctioned Russian official?</font></h3><p class="related-contentdek" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In Armenia, Giuliani is spending time with notorious pro-Kremlin figures.]</font></p></div></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2.75rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Giuliani’s partners</font></span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s also worth noting who joined Giuliani at the conference: In addition to Glazyev, Giuliani’s company included individuals like <b>Ara Abrahamyan</b>, a businessman who has <a href="https://eurasianet.org/giuliani-visits-yerevan-for-eurasian-forum" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">previously said</a> that Putin “gives orders and I carry them out,” and others who have vocally defended the Kremlin in the past.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Talking Points Memo’s Josh Kovensky <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-headlines-pro-russian-conference-in-armenia" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">noted</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; border-left: 3px solid rgb(87, 87, 206);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; padding-left: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Giuliani was invited to the event by Russian-Armenian multimillionaire Ara [Abrahamyan], who heads the Union of Armenians of Russia, according to a </span><a href="https://armenpress.am/eng/news/951743/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">local press report</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. [Abrahamyan], an UNESCO goodwill ambassador, was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://armcongress.am/archives/9277" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">awarded</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> an order “For merit to the fatherland” by Putin at the Kremlin last year.</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem; padding-left: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">[Abrahamyan] sits on the advisory board of TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, a consulting firm the </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-rudy-giuliani.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> described as “providing image consulting to Russian oligarchs and clients with deep Kremlin ties.”</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another listed speaker, Russian official Georgy Kalamanov, <a href="http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3154928" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">recently offered</a> a full-throated defense of the Kremlin against accusations that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the U.K. (For good measure, one of the few <b>Americans at the conference, Daniel Witt, has his own history of <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2016/03/western-whitewashing-of-kazakhstans-election/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">helping whitewash</a> post-Soviet dictatorships.)</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All told, Giuliani’s speech was an effective capstone to a series of questionable decisions that Trump’s personal lawyer has recently made, including his bizarre <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/rudy-giuliani-romania-letter-corruption" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(144, 141, 255);">condemnation</a> of Romania for cracking down on corruption too effectively.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unclear if Giuliani was paid to attend the event in Armenia. However, Giuliani has picked up numerous clients as part of his work at Giuliani Security & Safety, his personal consulting firm — clients he’s been only too happy to help, regardless of his position as Trump’s adviser and personal lawyer. Neither Giuliani’s firm nor conference organizers responded to ThinkProgress’s questions.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For at least one person who attended Giuliani’s speech, the talk was a waste of time.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.1875rem; line-height: 2.2rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Maybe he just assumed people in the audience don’t speak fluent English, so he could get away with it,” the conference attendee told ThinkProgress. “Eventually it got to the point where I started to reevaluate my life and think, ‘What the fuck am I doing here, sitting here listening to Rudy Giuliani talk about something he clearly knows nothing about when I have real work to get back to?'”</font></span></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02:21Who is Rudy Giuliani?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">WORLD</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">DONALD TRUMP</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">RUSSIA INVESTIGATION</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">GIULIANI</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani represents President Donald Trump on matters related to the special counsel's investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia, Giuliani has maintained his own ties to the Kremlin and its allies.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the month of October, Giuliani traveled to Armenia at the invitation of a Kremlin-linked businessman to participate in a forum for a Russia-led economic union. That same month, the former New York mayor was also named in a criminal complaint because his former law firm allegedly helped Kazakh fugitives launder stolen money. Both Armenia and Kazakhstan were once part of the Soviet Union, and today their governments, security services and intelligence organizations maintain close ties to Moscow.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>But experts say Giuliani's ties to individuals from the former Soviet Union go back decades—and his lucrative connections to the region have occasionally been intertwined with Trump's.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"One of Giuliani's earliest associations was with Semyon 'Sam' Kislin, who donated money to both his 1993 and 1997 campaigns [for mayor] and was appointed by Giuliani to serve on the New York City Mayor's Council of Economic Advisors," Olga Lautman, an investigative reporter who spent three years tracking ties between the Russian mafia and Trump's associates, told Newsweek.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kislin's website details that the Russian was an active member of the mayor's council until Giuliani left office in 2001.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"According to FBI and Interpol reports, Kislin, a wealthy commodities trader, was using his company to launder money from Russia to the U.S.,</span>" Lautman added.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Giuliani and his representatives did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Newsweek.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Giuliani's former law firm also has longstanding ties to a couple from Kazakhstan who fled their country after being accused of stealing millions.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On October 8, Viktor <b>Khrapunov,</b> the former mayor of the Kazakh city of Almaty, and his wife, Leila Khrapunova, were found guilty of financial fraud, taking bribes and running a criminal organization. They were sentenced to 17 and 14 years in jail respectively. Law enforcement officials say the couple helped launder around $10 billion stolen from their country.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is unlikely, however, that the Khrapunovs will go to prison anytime soon. The couple is avoiding jail time in Switzerland, where it is exceptionally difficult to get an extradition request approved. Lawyers representing the city of Almaty argue that the couple successfully laundered billions of dollars stolen from Kazakhstan in jurisdictions across the U.S. and the world. There are currently court cases pending against them in California and New York.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Court documents allege that the Khrapunovs have deep ties to Trump's former adviser Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman with a criminal history who claims to have been a CIA informant. In 2013, Sater's development company Bayrock helped the Khrapunovs purchase three condos in Trump Tower Soho and quickly resell the properties.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Financial analysts say it's likely the purchases were used to launder money.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the purchase or of the origin of the funds used to buy the condos. But Giuliani, Trump's longtime friend and associate, must have been aware that the Khrapunov's money had a dubious provenance. Years earlier, Giuliani's law firm helped establish a company in the Netherlands through which some of the couple's money was funneled.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On October 22, the New York City-based human rights organization Avaazfiled a complaint asking Dutch courts to investigate two companies that were set up in the Netherlands to launder some of the Khrapunovs' stolen funds.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The companies are Bayrock B.V., the Dutch subsidiary of Sater's former employer Bayrock Group LLC, and KazBay B.V., another company Bayrock Group opened for the Khrapunovs.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">KazBay B.V. was registered in 2007 with the assistance of Giuliani's then-law firm Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Rudy Giuliani's law firm was involved in setting up one of the companies, and there are a bunch of overlapping connections between that company and the other companies connected to the Khrapunovs, like the Switzerland-based company Helvetica Capital S.A.," Emma Ruby-Sachs, deputy director of Avaaz, told Newsweek.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"One of the concrete connections is that $1.5 million went into KazBay from Bayrock and Helvetica. We also know that the biggest overlap is in the stakeholders and individuals used to set up these companies, and we know there is a connection between this fraud and Felix Sater," Ruby-Sachs added.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sater, a longtime adviser of President Trump who attempted to help him set up a Trump Tower in Moscow, is named as a beneficiary in the complaint. Giuliani is personally named over a dozen times in the complaint's footnotes.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>It was not the first time Giuliani and his firm had dealt with Kazakhstan. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP had an office in the country as early as 1997, the same year Khrapunov became mayor of Almaty.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani's firm used its office in Kazakhstan to collect donations from U.S. expats for the former mayor's failed presidential bid in 2008. During the campaign in 2007, Giuliani threw a fundraising event in Almaty. It's unclear if he ever traveled to the country personally.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ten years later, Giuliani has been working for Trump, but he has refused to give up his lucrative contracts with foreigners. In June, he traveled to Paris to speak at the annual conference of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK), an Iranian opposition group that the U.S. government previously listed as a foreign terrorist organization. People familiar with the matter told Newsweek that the MeK often pays speakers five-figure sums.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But experts say the former mayor has placed a specific emphasis on cultivating ties with the former Soviet Union, and that he has made numerous trips to the region, including some since Trump took office.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"In 2004, Giuliani took a trip to Russia and met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Moscow's then-Mayor Yury Luzhkov, known for his corruption and dealings with Russian organized crime officials, and he unexpectedly made his way to a steel plant near the Kazakh border. Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works was flush with cash and looking for acquisitions in the U.S., and some speculated that Giuliani was eyeing a role as the middleman," Lautman explained to Newsweek.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[</font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Moscow, on September 9, 2004.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Many of Giuliani's trips to the region were organized with the assistance of a murky consulting firm called<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> Tri Global Strategic Ventures. According to the company's website, several people on the company's board have links to the Russian government, including Ara Abramyan</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,</span> the Armenian businessman who invited Giuliani to Armenia last month.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tri Global Strategic Ventures did not return requests for comment from Newsweek. A phone number for the company's alleged spokesman Vitaly Pruss led to the voice mailbox of an employee who identified herself as Veronica, but neither Abramyan nor Veronica returned Newsweek's calls.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year, Tri Global Strategic Ventures organized a trip for Giuliani to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where he met with Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes and the oligarch Pavel Fuchs, both of whom were loyal to the Pro-Putin regime of former Ukrainian President Viktor <b>Yanukovych.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fuchs, who made his fortune in Moscow's real estate industry, allegedly played a role in the failed attempts to establish a <b>Trump Tower in Moscow</b> around 2008. He is also reportedly under investigation in Ukraine for allegedly<b> attempting to purchase $160 million of the frozen assets of Yanukovych,</b> who fled Ukraine for Russia in 2014 after being ousted by a pro-Western social movement.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The website for Tri Global Strategic Venture</b>s is peppered with pictures of Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral and of Giuliani attending various meetings. Following Giuliani's 2017 trip to Ukraine, which was one of a handful of meetings with Ukrainians that Giuliani and his representatives held in the last year, the company published a press release claiming that "the meeting between the official delegation from the City of Kharkiv, Ukraine and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and John Huvane, CEO of Giuliani Security & Safety, was a success."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"The most controversial recent event was Giuliani's trip to Armenia last month at the invitation of Ara Abramyan, an oligarch closely linked to Putin<b>.</b></span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Giuliani spoke on a panel at the event alongside </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Sergei Glazyev, an official sanctioned by the U.S. who is an extremist and is viewed as a possible eventual successor to Putin</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lautman added.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an interview with the local press, Giuliani said he was visiting Yerevan, Armenia, as a private citizen and was not representing the U.S. president. Nevertheless, he failed to respond to questions about whether he was paid to appear on the panel with</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Glazyev,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin who was one of the first people sanctioned by former President Barack Obama for Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.</span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Giuliani also met with Armenia's Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan. But overall, the visit itself seemed to be more about Guiliani's dealings with Russia and Mr. Abramyan than Armenia itself," Grigor Atanesian, an investigative reporter in Armenia, told Newsweek.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">During his panel in Armenia last month, Giuliani lectured the audience about Armenia's ability to protect itself from cyberattacks. The event was part of the annual business forum of the Eurasian Economic Union, a Moscow-led economic bloc that includes Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Russia recognizes Crimea’s independence, defying new U.S. and E.U. sanctions</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Crimeans vote to join Russia<span style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View Photos<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Residents of the Ukrainian peninsula turned out in large numbers for the referendum.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Karen DeYoung and</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Griff WitteMarch 17, 2014</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The international crisis over Ukraine escalated sharply Monday as the United States and Europe imposed sanctions on senior Russian political and military figures, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the Ukrainian region of Crimea as an independent state.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both actions were taken in response to Sunday’s referendum in Crimea, where a reported 97 percent of voters said they wanted to become part of Russia. The Obama administration said the vote was rigged and discounted it as illegal.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Putin’s decree, announced on the Kremlin Web site, was widely seen as a step toward the annexation of Crimea by Russia, a move that U.S. and European leaders have said would result in further punishment designed to cripple Russia’s economy.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What has become the most serious U.S.-Russia confrontation in decades showed no sign of abating Monday, and there was little indication that ongoing diplomatic efforts would succeed in finding a resolution.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond Crimea, Putin has defied Western demands that he stop military exercises on Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders, end what the West has called destabilizing actions by pro-Russian provocateurs in Ukrainian cities and open negotiations with Ukraine’s interim government.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Monday, the day after Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine, President Obama announced expanded sanctions on Russian officials in the White House briefing room. (The Associated Press)</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The West increasingly thinks Putin’s actions in Crimea are part of a larger plan to impose his will on Ukraine, a former Soviet republic whose pro-Russian president fled the country last month in the wake of popular demonstrations in favor of joining the European Union.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Further provocations will achieve nothing except to further isolate Russia,” President Obama said in a Monday morning statement announcing sanctions against seven Russian and four Ukrainian officials. The U.S. goals, Obama said, are “to isolate Russia for its actions, and to reassure our allies and partners” of American support.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The U.S. sanctions include asset freezes and travel bans on some of Putin’s closest aides. The European Union separately announced sanctions on 21 individuals, including several Russian military commanders. The European list did not include Kremlin aides.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A senior administration official said the White House would not respond to Putin’s decree recognizing Crimea as independent from Ukraine. Putin has scheduled a speech to the Russian parliament Tuesday morning.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eastern European nations bordering Russia and Ukraine have been especially alarmed by the Russian moves. The United States has sent additional military assets to Poland and Lithuania, and Vice President Biden is being dispatched to those countries to offer further reassurance.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American measures</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. sanctions were imposed on the basis of an executive order Obama signed 11 days ago and a new order Monday that expanded the sanctions’ reach to Russian officials.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These are by far the most comprehensive sanctions applied to Russia since the Cold War,” a second administration official said. “Far and away so.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The United States and the European Union announced sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian officials over Crimea's vote to break away from Ukraine. The Post's Douglas Jehl, Scott Wilson and Anne Gearan explain the implications. (Jonathan Elker, Jeff Simon and Kate M. Tobey/The Washington Post)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The second order enables the administration to take additional action if Russia does not deescalate the situation, said this official and others who held a conference call for reporters. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the measures.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Far beyond the situation in Crimea or even Ukraine, the sanctions order potentially includes anyone who is “a senior official” in the Russian government, who is involved in “the arms and related material sector in the Russian Federation,” or who has operated “for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,” any of the above.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The seven Russians initially targeted</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> include top Putin aides Sergei Glazyev</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, and leaders of parliament who have been outspoken in advocating Crimean annexation and belligerent policies toward Ukraine.</span></b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under the sanctions, one U.S. official said, “all assets are frozen; no U.S. person can do business with them. .?.?. If they want to transact in dollars, for example, they will be unable to do so. They will be unable to send any money through the United States.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“More broadly,” this official said, “the people we designate will tend to find great difficulty in accessing financial services elsewhere in the world, particularly in Europe and the gulf.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ukrainians designated under the original executive order include two Crimea-based separatist leaders and ousted president Viktor Yanukovych. Another senior U.S. official emphasized that the measures were designed to block the “personal assets and wealth” of Putin “cronies.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the U.S. announcement Monday, some of the targeted Russians mocked the move.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I quite like the company I have found myself in,” Andrei Klishas, chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s Constitutional Legislation Committee, told the Interfax news service.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leonid Slutsky, who heads a parliamentary committee on Eurasian integration, said, “I don’t have any accounts or real estate in the U.S., and as regard private visits, I’ll have to do without them.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Some Republican lawmakers criticized the administration’s measures as insufficient. Sen. John McCain (</b>Ariz.) called for “a far more significant response,” saying that sanctioning only seven Russians “is wholly inadequate at this stage.”<b> Sen. Ted Cruz</b> (Tex.) described U.S. policy toward Russia as “appeasement” and called for an expanded American military presence in Eastern Europe.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four names in common</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The E.U. announcement included asset freezes and travel bans on eight Crimeans, among them a Ukrainian naval commander who pledged allegiance to Crimea in the days before the referendum, and 13 Russians, including the commanders of the Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet and Russia’s western and southern military districts.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The E.U. and U.S. lists have just four names in common: two top Crimean leaders who were instrumental in the drive for secession and two Russian legislators.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pressed on whether European sanctions are “softer” than those imposed by Washington because the European list does not reach deep inside the Kremlin, E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Monday that U.S. and E.U. officials are cooperating closely. But she added: “They make their own decisions. We make ours.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An E.U. statement called on Russia to end its military buildup in Crimea and to decline to annex the territory, warning of “additional and far-reaching consequences for relations in a broad range of economic areas” if Moscow does not back down.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, E.U. heavyweights such as Germany and Britain have deep economic ties to Russia, and officials have spent days wrangling over whether the sanctions should hit at Putin’s inner circle.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anatol Lieven, a professor of international relations at King’s College London, said the sanctions were highly unlikely to influence Putin’s moves in Crimea and were instead aimed at the next flash point: eastern Ukraine.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Crimea is lost. In practice, there’s no way that Ukraine is ever going to get it back,” Lieven said. “The question now, and it’s a vastly greater strategic question, is what happens in eastern Ukraine.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There, Russia has suggested in recent days that it may have to intervene to protect Russian speakers from attacks by right-wing Ukrainian nationalists. Ukraine has accused Russia of provoking violence to justify an invasion.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2018, Rudy Giuliani <a href="http://tgsv.net/triglobal-strategic-ventures-announces-successful-trip-for-city-of-kharkiv-representatives-to-new-york-city/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">met</a> in Manhattan with a delegation of lawmakers from Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million in eastern Ukraine. Giuliani, who joined President Donald Trump’s legal team a few weeks later, was at this gathering because, Giuliani says, his security firm <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giulianis-corrupt-oligarch-ukraine-2018-11" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">agreed</a> in 2017 to help the city improve its emergency services and seek foreign investment.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the deal had a murkier element. Giuliani later <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/ukrainian-oligarch-pavel-fuks-scrutinized-by-robert-mueller-was-rudy-giuliani-client/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">conceded</a> that he wasn’t just working for Kharkiv and that for at least some of the work he was paid by<b> Pavel Fuks</b>, a Kharkiv-born business executive who became a prominent real estate developer in Moscow in the 2000s and who has said that he negotiated directly with Trump between 2004 and 2010 about building a Trump-branded<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>tower in Moscow. Fuks was one of several Ukrainians with Russian ties whose attendance at Trump’s presidential inauguration was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/ukraine-donald-trump-inauguration.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">investigated</a> by former special counsel Robert Mueller.</span> So at the start of Trump’s presidency, Giuliani was hobnobbing with at least one Ukrainian player who would be tainted by scandal. </font></p><div class="incontent-promo" id="incontent_promo_1" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(242, 243, 239); position: relative; left: -358.156px; height: auto; width: 100vw; margin-bottom: 1rem; clear: both;"><section id="mj-incontent-ad-widget-4" class="widget mj-incontent-ad-widget" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="incontent-ad-container" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 1300px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;" /></section></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-pursued-shadow-ukraine-agenda-as-key-foreign-policy-officials-were-sidelined/2019/09/24/ee18aaec-deec-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">exploded</a> into public view this month, with the revelation that Trump pressured the country’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to work with Giuliani and Attorney General <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/william-barr-ukraine-memo-1512255" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">William Barr</a> to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and information to discredit Mueller’s probe. A complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that triggered this new Trump scandal depicted Giuliani as a Trump henchman prowling Ukraine for negative material Trump could use against Biden. But the former New York mayor’s involvement in Ukraine and other former Soviet bloc countries has been more extensive and even more sketchy than these disclosures indicate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York meeting and an earlier trip Giuliani trip took to Kharkiv in November 2017 were arranged by TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, the firm <a href="http://tgsv.net/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">says</a> on its website. TriGlobal, which claims to have offices in New York, Moscow, and Kiev, sells itself as an international business consultancy that does public relations work for clients in Russia and Ukraine. The firm also brags that it has worked with Giuliani since 2004, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">arranging</a> trips for him to former Soviet states. Last October, Giuliani took a break from his work representing Trump to <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/rudy-giuliani-armenia-speech-russia-3ef1a9cdff8e/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">speak</a> about cybersecurity at a conference <b>TriGlobal organized in Armenia to promote a Russia-led economic bloc, the Eurasian Economic Union</b>. Giuliani appeared at the event alongside a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Russian official, Sergey Glazyev, who was <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/17/fact-sheet-ukraine-related-sanctions" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">sanctioned</a> in March 2014 for his role in the annexation of Crimea</b> and who has been <a href="https://www.jpost.com/International/Putin-adviser-denies-antisemitic-conspiracy-about-Ukraines-new-president-589231" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">accused</a> of <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/07/putin-aide-says-new-ukraine-leader-could-populate-war-torn-region-with-jews-a65509" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">advancing</a> anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Ukraine, an accusation he’s denied. Giuliani was reportedly invited to a conference by Russian Armenian multimillionaire Ara Abramyan, a member of TriGlobal’s board, who <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">reportedly</a> suggested at the time that he expected Giuliani to deliver a message for him to Trump.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Friday, the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-set-to-make-paid-appearance-next-week-at-kremlin-backed-conference/2019/09/27/a15ab242-e133-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">reported</a> that Giuliani planned to participate in a panel led by Glazyev at the same conference in Armenia this year. Giuliani canceled his plans to attend after the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Post</em>‘s report. He said he decided not to attend after learning that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to go. “If Putin’s going it’s easy,” he said in a text.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These gigs form part of Giuliani’s lucrative post-mayoral career as a roving international security consultant and high-priced lawyer. That career has continued, even after Trump brought Giuliani onto his personal legal team with a mandate to take a combative approach against Mueller’s investigation. Giuliani provides not only pro-bono legal assistance for Trump, but, he says, political advice, and reportedly he acts as somewhat of a personal emissary for the president. All the while, Giuliani has shrugged off questions of whether clients, including foreign interests, are paying him and his firm as he functions as Trump’s consigliere. And he has refused to comprehensively identify his clients. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He claims that he does not need to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act—which would require him to disclose details of his work for overseas clients—because he does no lobbying in the United States for foreign entities and instead merely provides security advice to any client he has abroad.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But at least one former client disputes Giuliani’s claims about his work.</b> “I would call him the lobbyist for Kharkiv and Ukraine—this is stated in the contract,” Fuks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/us/politics/ukraine-giuliani-foreign-work.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">told</a> the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em> in March. “It is very important for me that such person as Giuliani tells people that we are a good country, that people can do business with us. That’s what we would like to bring to America’s leaders.” Neither Giuliani nor Fuks has made their contract public. Giuliani has declined to say what he and his firm were paid for the work.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), <a href="https://www.tomudall.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FARA%20Letter%20DOJ.pdf" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">pressed</a> the Justice Department this week to investigate whether Giuliani is violating foreign lobbying law. “Like any other American, Mr. Giuliani has legal obligations to report his work on behalf of foreign clients,” they wrote, “and the Department of Justice should not give him preferential treatment or exempt him from his obligation just because he is the President’s personal attorney.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Giuliani conducted other business in Ukraine while working for Kharkiv and Fuks. In June 2017, Giuliani traveled to Kiev where he reportedly <a href="https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ele_schiff_cummings_letter_to_sec_pompeo_on_ukraine.pdf" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">met with</a> then-President Petro<b> Poroshenko, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko</b>, and other government officials.</span> Giuliani also <a href="https://www.pinchukfund.org/en/news/20207/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">spoke</a> on “democracy” and the “rule of law” at a conference organized by the foundation of Ukrainian metals magnate, Victor Pinchuk—an oligarch whose 2016 payment of $150,000 to Trump’s charitable foundation drew <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/trump-mueller-ukraine-victor-pinchuk.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">scrutiny</a> from Mueller. Giuliani, who in 2006 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/politics/17candidates.html?module=inline" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">reported</a> receiving up to $200,000 per <a href="https://www.wsb.com/speakers/rudy-giuliani" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">speech</a>, has declined to say how much he he was paid for that presentation. It’s unclear if these activities had any connection to Giuliani’s deal with Fuks and Kharkiv.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a text message Thursday, Giuliani said his work in Ukraine in 2017 was unrelated to his recently revealed activity. “My business in Ukraine ended in Dec. 2017,” he wrote. But Giuliani’s involvement in the country continued after he became Trump’s lawyer in April 2018.</font></span></p><div class="incontent-promo" id="incontent_promo_3" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(242, 243, 239); position: relative; left: -358.156px; height: auto; width: 100vw; margin-bottom: 1rem; clear: both;"><section id="mj-incontent-ad-widget-11" class="widget mj-incontent-ad-widget" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="incontent-ad-container" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 1300px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;" /></section></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In May 2018, Ukrainian officials stopped investigating payments to Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort and dropped an offer to assist with Mueller’s prosecution of him.</span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ukrainian officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/ukraine-mueller-manafort-missiles.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">told</a> the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em> they feared helping Mueller would anger Trump, potentially complicating their purchase from the United States of antitank weapons aimed at deterring Russian aggression. This week Giuliani insisted in a text message to me that he did “not know anything about” that move.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At some point in 2018—the exact date is unclear—Giuliani began working on Ukraine-related matters with<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span>two Soviet-born American business executives, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. </b>Giuliani has <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1129761193755910144?s=20" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">said</a> they’re his clients, though his work for them appears indistinguishable from his efforts on Trump’s behalf. In a text message on Monday, Giuliani declined to comment on this work, citing attorney-client privilege. Parnas and Fruman did not respond to inquiries.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to a joint <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/meet-the-florida-duo-helping-giuliani-dig-dirt-for-trump-in-ukraine" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">investigation</a> by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">BuzzFeed News</em>, it was Parnas and Fruman who first <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-trump-parnas-fruman" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">encouraged</a> Giuliani’s effort to dig up dirt on Biden</b>. Both Parnas and Fruman, who live in South Florida, became big GOP donors in 2018, giving at least $576,500 in combined donations over several months. They used the resulting access to powerful Republican figures to promote a plan to sell American liquified gas to Ukraine. In May 2018, the duo dined with the president at the Trump International Hotel and had breakfast in Beverly Hills with Donald Trump Jr. and Tommy Hicks Jr., who later became co-chair of the Republican National Committee, according Facebook posts by Parnas, which he later deleted. It is unclear if Giuliani was helped connect them with Trump.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the OCCRP/<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">BuzzFeed News</em> report, Parnas and Fruman organized a late 2018 Skype call between Giuliani and <b>Viktor Shokin</b>, the prosecutor whose firing was pushed by Biden and many European diplomats in 2016.</span> Shokin was ousted for blocking anti-corruption probes, but Giuliani and Trump have asserted that Biden sought Shokin’s dismissal to protect his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, from investigation. There is no evidence to support that claim.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Shokin, not surprisingly, was apparently eager to help smear Biden.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Parnas claims that he and Fruman put Giuliani in touch with Shokin’s replacement, Yuriy Lutsenko, late last year. Giuliani and Lutsenko met in New York in January 2018 and in Poland in February, according to the OCCRP/<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">BuzzFeed News</em> report. Giuliani <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-gambit-for-trump-giuliani-engaged-parade-of-ukrainian-prosecutors/2019/09/26/4d3dc72e-e072-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">told</a> the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</em> that he has met with five current and former Ukrainian prosecutors overall, including Shokin and Lutsenko, since last year. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Shortly after their get-togethers, Lutsenko and Giuliani began pushing allegations in the US media about Biden and claiming Ukrainian officials interfered in the 2016 election to help the Hillary Clinton campaign. </b>Many of these claims ended up in articles written by <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Hill</em> opinion writer John Solomon, whose reports were amplified by Fox News and other conservative media and by Trump—but his reports have largely been<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-a-conservative-columnist-helped-push-a-flawed-ukraine-narrative/2019/09/26/1654026e-dee7-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">debunked</a><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</em> Ukrainian anti-corruption activists <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">claim</a> Shokin and Lutsenko were promoting phony accusations, and Lutsenko later <a href="https://thebabel.net/texts/28898-genprokuror-yuriy-lucenko-ne-idet-v-otstavku-vot-chto-on-rasskazal-nam-o-konfliktah-s-poslom-ssha-i-glavoy-nabu-dele-burisma-plenkah-rozenblata-i-istochnikah-korrupcii-bolshoe-intervyu" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">withdrew</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/ukraine-prosecutor-says-no-evidence-of-wrongdoing-by-bidens" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">many</a> of his claims. Daria Kaleniuk, the head of a Ukrainian anti-corruption group, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/reporters-stop-helping-donald-trump-spread-lies-joe-biden-ukraine/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">contends</a> that Lutsenko issued allegations to please Trump in a bid to keep his job. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I was investigating, going back to last year, complaints that the Ukrainian people, several people in Ukraine, knew about a tremendous amount of collusion between Ukrainian officials, and Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee,” Giuliani <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/20/trump-has-been-openly-trying-leverage-ukraine-his-political-benefit-months/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">claimed</a> last week on CNN. These<b> accusations promoted by Giuliani have been embraced by Trump’s Justice Department and Attorney General William Barr.</b></span><b> On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that a probe initiated by Barr and run by a US attorney, John Durham, is “exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.” </b>(The nature of this probe is unclear. Ukraine was not involved in the initiation of the FBI’s investigation of the Russian attack on the 2016 election and the interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia.) </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</em>, since Zelensky took office in May, Giuliani has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-pursued-shadow-ukraine-agenda-as-key-foreign-policy-officials-were-sidelined/2019/09/24/ee18aaec-deec-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-national--alert-world--alert-politics&wpmk=1" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">sidelined</a> the State Department and helped force the firing of the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, whom he accused, seemingly without evidence, of “collusion” and of “working for” liberal financier George Soros. Trump’s request that Zelensky help Giuliani unearth negative information on Biden has received lots of attention. Zelensky agreeing to do so has received less notice. According to the whistleblower’s complaint, Giuliani met with a Zelenksy adviser on August 2 in Madrid to follow up on “cases” discussed in the July 25 phone call.</font></span></p><div class="incontent-promo" id="incontent_promo_5" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: rgb(242, 243, 239); position: relative; left: -358.156px; height: auto; width: 100vw; margin-bottom: 1rem; clear: both;"><section id="mj-incontent-ad-widget-10" class="widget mj-incontent-ad-widget" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="incontent-ad-container" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 1300px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;" /></section></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Giuliani’s role, particularly his work in Ukraine in 2017 and 2018, has not been fully explained. The whistleblower <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6430345/20190812-Whistleblower-Complaint-Unclass.pdf" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">complaint</a> alleges that Giuliani has been “a central figure” in Trump’s covert effort to use his power to press Ukraine to help tilt the 2020 election in his favor. An unnamed US official quoted by the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Post</em> made a similar claim: “<b>Rudy—he did all of this,” the official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-pursued-shadow-ukraine-agenda-as-key-foreign-policy-officials-were-sidelined/2019/09/24/ee18aaec-deec-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(">said</a>. “This shitshow that we’re in—it’s him injecting himself into the process.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about his work in Ukraine, Giuliani, in a series of texts, called the issue “bull distraction.” Not enough is publicly known yet to back up Giuliani’s this-is-a-distraction defense, or to assess whether Giuliani’s actions in Ukraine will ultimately help Trump or cause him more difficulty in a scandal that has led to an impeachment inquiry. </font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sergey Yurievich Glazyev</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Серге́й Юрьевич Глазьев</span>) (born January 1, 1961, in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian politician and economist, advisor to the president of the Russian Federation on regional economic integration, member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, and, since 2008, a full member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Academy_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Academy of Science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian Academy of Sciences.</a> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dr. Glazyev was the minister of Foreign Economic Relations in Yeltsin's cabinet and the only member of the Russian government to resign in protest of President Yeltsin's abolition of the Parliament and the Constitution in 1993.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-:0-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Glazyev was a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">State Duma</a> in 1993-2007, a candidate for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidency of the Russian Federation</a> in 2004, and one of the leaders of the electoral block <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodina(political_party)" title="Rodina (political party)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rodina</a> in 2003-2004.</span></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Biography</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Views_on_Russia_in_the_1990s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Views on Russia in the 1990s</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Views_on_Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Views on Ukraine</span></font></a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Glazyev_tapes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Glazyev tapes</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Views_on_the_Russo-American_conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Views on the Russo-American conflict</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Future_prospects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Future prospects</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Accusations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Accusations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#2004_Presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2004 Presidential campaign</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notes</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</span></font></h2><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhia" title="Zaporizhia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Zaporizhia</a>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukrainian SSR</a> as the son of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians" title="Russians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian</a> father and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukrainian</a> mother, Glazyev attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Moscow State University</a>, earning a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bachelor's degree</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">master's degree</a>, and finally a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Doctor of Philosophy</a>, all in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economics</a>. He left the university in 1990. The next year, he entered government service, becoming First Deputy Minister of External Economic Relations under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor_Gaidar" title="Yegor Gaidar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yegor Gaidar</a>. He served in this capacity for a year, and then was promoted to Minister by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Chernomyrdin" title="Viktor Chernomyrdin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Viktor Chernomyrdin</a>, serving until 1993, when he resigned.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_legislative_election" title="1993 Russian legislative election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Elected</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Duma</a> as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Russia" title="Democratic Party of Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party of Russia</a> in 1993, he first associated with his then-friend, and later bitter rival, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin" title="Dmitry Rogozin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitry Rogozin</a>. He resigned from office before his first four-year term was complete, as he had been named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_security" title="Economic security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic security</a> advisor for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Council_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Federation Council of Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federation Council of Russia</a> and head of the Council's analytical department. He was also associated with Rogozin and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Lebed" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksandr Lebed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aleksandr Lebed</a> in the short-lived <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nationalist</a> political project, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Russian_Communities" title="Congress of Russian Communities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congress of Russian Communities</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999, he resigned once again to run for the Duma, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_legislative_election" title="1999 Russian legislative election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">was elected</a> this time as an independent on the list of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Communist Party of the Russian Federation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Communist Party of the Russian Federation</a>. This time, however, he clashed with the party's leadership and, in 2003, he abandoned the party to help form <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodina(political_party)" title="Rodina (political party)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rodina</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nationalist</a> party on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">left wing</a> of the Russian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political spectrum</a>. That year, he became one of 37 Rodina candidates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Russian_legislative_election" title="2003 Russian legislative election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">elected</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Duma</a>. Other prominent candidates included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin" title="Dmitry Rogozin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitry Rogozin</a>, Chairman of the Duman Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chairman (with Glazyev) of Rodina, and also former Central Bank head <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gerashchenko" title="Viktor Gerashchenko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Viktor Gerashchenko</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2004, both Glazyev and Gerashchenko sought the presidency on separate tickets, with Rodina's leaders voting to remain neutral in the contest. Gerashchenko was nominated as the candidate of one of the minor parties that made up the Rodina coalition, which led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Election_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Election Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Central Election Commission</a> refusing to place him on the ballot, as he had not been nominated by the whole party. Glazyev, who had nominated himself as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Independent</a>, did not have any such problems, and appeared on the ballot.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>During the election, Glazyev portrayed himself as a champion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">social justice</a> and an opponent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption" title="Political corruption" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political corruption</a>, particularly in the form of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_oligarch" title="Business oligarch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian oligarchs</a>.</b> He pledged to write a guarantee of a high <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living" title="Standard of living" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">standard of living</a> into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution" title="Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">constitution</a>, provide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">universal health care</a> and free <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Public education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">public education</a>, triple the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">minimum wage</a>, protect the rights of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">trade unions</a>, redistribute the wealth belonging to the oligarchs, and increase <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic growth</a>. He also promised to eradicate the notorious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Mafia" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Mafia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian Mafia</a>, purge corrupt <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucrat" title="Bureaucrat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bureaucrats</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police" title="Police" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">police</a>, and protect the country from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">terrorism</a>. This platform proved to be moderately popular, and Glazyev received 2,826,641 votes, or 4.1%–third place out of a field of six.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Following the election, Rogozin, who had long sought to remove his rival from party power, succeeded in getting the party rank-and-file to vote Glazyev out as co-chairman, leaving Rogozin in control</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. This led to Glazyev and his supporters attempting to form their own party, called </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=For_a_Decent_Life&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="For a Decent Life (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">For a Decent Life</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, although this, too, suffered a setback when the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice" title="Ministry of Justice" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ministry of Justice</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> refused to recognize the validity of the party.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following a split between Rogozin and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Baburin" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergei Baburin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sergei Baburin</a> in 2005, Glazyev re-joined the Rodina faction and reconciled with his former political partner. After Rogozin was replaced as party leader by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Babakov" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksander Babakov" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aleksander Babakov</a> in early 2006, Rodina merged with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Party_of_Life" title="Russian Party of Life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian Party of Life</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Pensioners%27_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Pensioners' Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian Pensioners' Party</a> in 2006 to create a new party, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Fair Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fair Russia</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glazyev announced his retirement from politics in March 2007, and said that he did not intend to seek a further term in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma" title="Duma" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Duma</a>, arguing that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vladimir Putin</a>'s rule had crowded out all forms of political opposition and debate in the country.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In July 2012, Putin appointed Glazyev as presidential aide</b> for the coordination of the work of federal agencies in developing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Union_of_Belarus,Kazakhstan,and_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev has authored more than forty books and hundreds of pamphlets and research papers. One of his books has been published in English translation by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement" title="LaRouche movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">LaRouche movement's</a> Executive Intelligence Review as <i>Genocide: Russia and the New World Order</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-943235-16-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-943235-16-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">0-943235-16-2</a>). In 1995 he was awarded the Gold Kondratieff Medal<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN).</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On March 17, 2014, a day after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_referendum" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Crimean referendum" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Crimean status referendum</a>, Glazyev was one of the first seven persons who were placed under executive sanctions by President Obama</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The sanctions froze his assets in the US and banned him from entering the United States.</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>However, according to Glazyev, he has not been negatively affected by these sanctions because he has neither property nor accounts of any sort in the United States, nor had he any plans to come to America</b>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-:1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Views_on_Russia_in_the_1990s">Views on Russia in the 1990s</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Views on Russia in the 1990s" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In his 1999 book, <i>A Genocide: Russia And The New World Order</i>, Glazyev argues that the rate of annual population loss in Russia in the 1990s has been "more than double the rate of loss during the period of Stalinist repression and mass famine in the first half of the 1930s.... There has been nothing like this in the thousand-year history of Russia." Glazyev traces this decline to "the conscious policy of the oligarchy that ruled the country. Its exploitation of power for purposes of personal enrichment effectively led to genocide against the Russian people."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-:0-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book then underlines Glazyev's views of the stark choice that confronted Russia on the verge of the 21st century:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Either we passively submit to a suicidal policy of self-destruction and the colonization of Russia, which has been imposed from the outside by deception and graft, or we . . . move to a scientifically grounded strategy for economic growth, improvement of the people's welfare, and restoration of the spiritual-intellectual strength and the scientific and technical potential of the Russian State.</font></p></blockquote><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Views_on_Ukraine">Views on Ukraine</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Views on Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In an interview with the <i>National Interest</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-:1-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> Glazyev said:</font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The entire crisis in Ukraine was orchestrated, provoked, and financed by American institutions in cooperation with their European partners</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> They financed neo-Nazis. For fifteen years, the U.S. and Europeans financed neo-Nazis' training, their camps, and preparation.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> By U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's acknowledgement, the State Department spent $5 billion on the creation of an anti-Russian political and paramilitary elite. This work led to the sad situation that now in Ukraine neo-Nazi and neo-fascists ideas prevail, as does admiration for, more than anything, Stepan Bandera's associates who in their time murdered Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and whomever they wanted, burning or otherwise killing them under Nazi leadership.</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In August 2013 Glazyev said that stating that all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukrainians</a> favor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukraine</a> to integrate in the European Union "is some kind of sick self-delusion"<sup id="cite_ref-GlazyevUEU_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-GlazyevUEU-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> and, citing a December 2012 poll,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> said "surveys by Ukrainian sociological services say something different: 35% of people prefer the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">European Union</a> and 40% the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Union_of_Belarus,Kazakhstan_and_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Customs Union</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-GlazyevUEU_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-GlazyevUEU-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> He blamed "numerous political scientists and experts, who have fed on European and American grants for 20 years, and a whole generation of diplomats and bureaucrats that has appeared after the years of the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution" title="Orange Revolution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">orange</a>' hysteria, who are carrying out an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Russian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">anti-Russian</a> agenda" and "who are too far from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine" title="Economy of Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economy</a> and real life, don't really know <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine" title="History of Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">their country's history</a> and are divorced from its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Ukraine" title="Religion in Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">spiritual traditions</a>" for creating "an effect that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukraine</a> doesn't want".<sup id="cite_ref-GlazyevUEU_6-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-GlazyevUEU-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, opinion polls, e.g., a poll by German state-owned broadcaster <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Deutsche Welle</a>, show that the majority of Ukrainians prefer joining the European Union rather than the Custom Union.</span><sup id="cite_ref-RatingMar13_8-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-RatingMar13-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DWpoll613_9-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-DWpoll613-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In June 2014, in an interview with the BBC, he called the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Ukraine" title="President of Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President of Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Petro Poroshenko</a>, illegitimately elected due to the lack of votes in Ukraine's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Easternmost provinces</a>;</b> the signing on the 27th of June 2014 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93European_Union_Association_Agreement" title="Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement</a> likewise illegitimate. Glazyev also called Poroshenko a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nazi</a>: "Europe is trying to push Ukraine to sign this agreement by force ... They organised [a] military coup in Ukraine, they helped Nazis to come to power. This Nazi government is bombing the largest region in Ukraine." Asked if he believed Mr Poroshenko was a Nazi, he replied: "Of course."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[nb 1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On 2 July 2014, Glazyev warned about economic consequences following the association of Ukraine with the European Union, "Be objective — the association with the EU imposed on Ukraine by force is leading to the sharp deterioration of the already poor state of Ukraine's economy, the reduction of its competitiveness, the forcing of Ukrainian goods out of the market and drop in their production, increased unemployment and decreased living standards."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By August 2017, Glazyev averred that "Today Ukraine is an occupied territory. There is no legitimate power, there is no one to talk to, there are no people who can take responsibility for the implementation of political agreements. There are only servicemen of American aggressors who receive instructions from the American embassy, from there they receive funding and, in fact, serve American interests in Ukraine."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Glazyev_tapes">Glazyev tapes</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2016 Ukraine's Prosecutor General published wiretaps of telephone calls between Glazyev and a number of people in Ukraine directly involved in organizing pro-Russian mass riots in Odessa, Kharkiv and other cities in 2014</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In the call Glazyev gives instructions on how to increase the impact of these riots and turn them into occupation of administration buildings as well as gives instructions on receiving funding. He also instructs </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aksyonov" title="Sergey Aksyonov" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Sergey Aksyonov</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on how the Crimean referendum should be formulated.</span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specially trained people should knock out “Banderovtsy” from the building council, and then they should arrange the meeting of the regional state administration, gather executive authorities. (...) It is very important for us the Regional State Administration to gather now. And for this it must be provided, as it was done in Kharkiv – in Kharkiv people came into [the regional administration] threw all “Banderovtsy” out, found the ammunition depot, now engage its disposal and will gather Regional State Administration and will also appeal to our President.</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In the tapes Glazyev makes it clear that the riots and protests must look as if they were grassroots </b>and inspired by local residents in spite of the fact that large part of funding for the pro-Russian militants came from Russia. Further investigation also demonstrated significant involvement of Glazyev into the events that led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odessa_clashes" title="2014 Odessa clashes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tragedy in Odessa</a> on 2 May 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Konstantin Zatulin: That’s the main story. I want to say about other regions – we have financed Kharkiv, financed Odesa. (...)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sergey Glazyev: So, you paid.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Konstantin Zatulin: Well, there are small sums of 2 thousands, 3 thousands, like these. I have 4 requests signed by Chalyi for 50 thousand.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sergey Glazyev: Then you have to make a cost estimate, I will give it to those, let them work on the estimate.</font></p></blockquote><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Views_on_the_Russo-American_conflict">Views on the Russo-American conflict</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Views on the Russo-American conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2015, Glazyev felt that the American capitalist model was entering an inevitable, very dangerous, phase of self-destruction. We are, he felt, "truly on the verge of a global war." Although this coming war poses a great danger for Russia, Glazyev said that the USA will fail to achieve its hegemonic goals of controlling Russia and the entire world.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Following the August 2017 round of sanctions against the Russian Federation by the American Congress, Glazyev suggested that the USA should be officially designated as an "aggressor country." Believing that United States' power is based in part on the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, Glazyev suggested that Russia abandons the dollar and liquidates its sizeable ($110 billion in August 2017) investment in the U.S. Federal Reserve.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Future_prospects">Future prospects</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Future prospects" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sergey Lavrov</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dmitry Medvedev</a>, Glazyev is often spoken about as a potential successor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Putin</a>. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In view of the difficult economic situation in the country, the assumption that Glazyev will take perhaps the central position in government is heard more and more often."</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Accusations">Accusations</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Accusations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On 5 July 2014, the head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine" title="Security Service of Ukraine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Security Service of Ukraine</a> (SBU) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentyn_Nalyvaichenko" title="Valentyn Nalyvaichenko" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Valentyn Nalyvaichenko</a> announced that a criminal action was brought against Glazyev under Ukraine's Criminal Code Article 436 (public appeals for unleashing a military conflict)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Glazyev replied that "the SBU in Ukraine exerts the same function as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Gestapo</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> did in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nazi Germany</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." In his words, "the SBU is a criminal organization, and its leadership is completely controlled by American secret services."</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2004_Presidential_campaign">2004 Presidential campaign</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sergey_Glazyev&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2004 Presidential campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Russian_presidential_election" title="2004 Russian presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2004 Russian presidential election</a></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev ran as an independent candidate in the 2004 Russian presidential election.<sup id="cite_ref-rew6_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew6-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> His campaign slogans were “We’ll take Russia back” and “There is a choice”.<sup id="cite_ref-rew6_24-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew6-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Russians were largely indifferent towards his candidacy, due largely to his unlikelihood of victory.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While he (and other challengers of Putin) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Russian_presidential_election,_2004" class="mw-redirect" title="Opinion polling for the Russian presidential election, 2004" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">had been polling in the single-digits</a>, Glazeyev was seen by observers as the candidate with the most likely chance of experiencing a last-minute surge in support and posing a challenge to Putin.<sup id="cite_ref-rew6_24-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew6-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> He was seen as a relatively strong candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> This partially derived from the fact that his Rodina bloc had seen its share of support surge at the tail end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Russian_legislative_election" title="2003 Russian legislative election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2003 legislative election</a> from nearly zero to 9%.<sup id="cite_ref-rew6_24-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew6-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> However, that was largely due to an effort by the Kremlin to increase support of Rodina to the detriment of the Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> Additionally, analysts believed that Glazyev held greater potential than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Zyuganov" title="Gennady Zyuganov" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gennady Zyuganov</a> would of appealing to moderate left Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-rew4_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew4-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> This made him the challenger which the Putin campaign was most focussed on, as Putin hoped to avoid seeing any opponent achieve a strong enough performance that they might be perceived as a potential frontrunner for the next presidential election.<sup id="cite_ref-rew6_24-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew6-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev had hoped that he could perform well enough in the election to cement a perception of him as the rising political star of the Russian far-left.<sup id="cite_ref-rew4_29-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew4-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev had greater <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_recognition" title="Name recognition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">name recognition</a> than many of the other candidates that were running against Putin.<sup id="cite_ref-OSCE_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-OSCE-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> Glazyev was, arguably, best known to support of raising taxes on the high-earning natural resource companies.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev declared that, while he found Putin to be a charismatic leader, he considered his policies to be too weak.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glazyev had initially failed to receive the backing of Rodina, which had instead nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gerashchenko" title="Viktor Gerashchenko" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Viktor Gerashchenko</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> Thus, he instead ran as a self-nominated candidate. After Gerashchenko's candidacy was rejected by the Central Election Commission, Glazyev tried to position himself as an alternative candidate to Gerashchenko, should Gerashchenko's attempt to challenge his disqualification falter.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> However, Rodina co-chair <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin" title="Dmitry Rogozin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dmitry Rogozin</a> disavowed Glazyev's candidacy, insisting that Gerashchenko was the only candidate that Rodina was going to support, and that the party would fight in the Supreme Court for the reinstatement of Geraschenko's registration.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Behind Rogozin's back (while he was out of the country), Glazyev organized a gathering of Rodina delegates, at which the party reorganized as a “social organization,” and elected Glazyev as its sole leader. They relegated Rogozin's position in the party to one of twenty-five members on its governing council.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> After the Supreme Court upheld the disqualification of Gerashchenko Rogozin personally endorsed Putin rather than supporting Glazyev.<sup id="cite_ref-rew5_28-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew5-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> The party, now led by Glazyev, was able to provide support to his campaign.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Glazyev ultimately failed to muster momentum he had hoped for and placed a weak third, capturing only 4.10% of the vote</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-rew7_31-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew7-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Glazyev managed to perform better in some federal subjects than in others. For instance, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoyarsk" title="Krasnoyarsk" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Krasnoyarsk</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> he managed to place second with 17% of its vote.</span><sup id="cite_ref-rew7_31-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Glazyev#cite_note-rew7-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SIMFEROPOL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and European Union imposed personal sanctions on Monday on Russian and Crimean officials involved in the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the region as a sovereign state.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The moves heightened the most serious East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War, following a disputed referendum in the Black Sea peninsula on Sunday in which Crimea’s leaders declared a Soviet-style, 97-percent vote to secede from Ukraine.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Within hours, the Crimean parliament formally asked that Russia “admit the Republic of Crimea as a new subject with the status of a republic”. Putin will on Tuesday address a special joint session of Russia’s State Duma, or parliament, which could take a decision on annexation of the majority ethnic-Russian region.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That would dismember Ukraine, a former Soviet republic once under Moscow’s thumb, against its will. Kiev and the West said the referendum, held under armed Russian occupation, violated Ukraine’s constitution and international law.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Russian forces took control of Crimea in late February following the toppling of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich after deadly clashes between riot police and protesters trying to overturn his decision to spurn a trade and cooperation deal with the EU in favor of cultivating closer ties with Russia.</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Rogozin and two close aides of Vladimir Putin, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sergei Glazyev</span> and Vladislav Surkov. ... after meeting Mr Ban, said Ukraine would never accept "the seizure of <span style="font-weight: bold;">its</span> territory".</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GfTLR3dBM9UJ:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26686949+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:GfTLR3dBM9UJ:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26686949%2B%26cd%3D14%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwig8PL4p5DmAhUF7awKHRpfCdwQIDANegQIBhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" color="#000000">=</font></a></font></font></div>