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Team Trump’s alleged links to Russia

Michael Flynn
Dec 2015: Flynn is paid $33,750 for participating in Moscow panel honouring Kremlin-backed TV network RT
Nov 2016: Flynn makes phone call to Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to U.S.
Dec: Flynn and Jared Kushner meet Kislyak at Trump Tower
Dec 29: Flynn places five phone calls to Kislyak on day President Obama announces sanctions on Russia
Feb 13: Flynn is fired after serving as national security adviser for just 24 days, following revelations that he discussed ending sanctions against Moscow with Kislyak
May: Senate Intelligence Committee demands that Flynn provide it with list of any contacts with Russian officials. Flynn invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination

Jared Kushner
Son-in-law of President Trump
Jun 2016: Kushner attends meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Natalia Veselnitskaya, Ike Kaveladze and Rinat Akhmetshin
Apr 2016: Kushner meets with Kislyak in Washington
Dec: Kushner and Flynn meet Kislyak at Trump Tower

Sergey Gorkov
Dec 2016: Kushner meets with Sergey Gorkov, head of Russian state investment bank VEB
2016-17: VEB’s Evgeny Buryakov is arrested and deported from U.S. for spying. Buryakov
allegedly tried to recruit Carter Page – Trump campaign foreign policy advisor – as Russian spy

Jeff Sessions
2016: Trump’s Attorney General meets with Kislyak 
U.S. officials say ambassador is top Kremlin spy

Sergei Kislyak

Aras and Emin Agalarov
Jun 2013: Putin awards Russian Order of Honour to billionaire real estate tycoon Aras Agalarov
Nov 2013: Trump stages Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow, with Aras Agalarov and son Emin

President Vladimir Putin

Rex Tillerson
2013: As CEO of ExxonMobil, future Secretary of State is awarded Russia’s Order of Friendship by President Vladimir Putin 
Award follows $500 billion deal between ExxonMobil and Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft

Donald Trump Jr.

Natalia Veselnitskaya
Jun 2016: Trump Jr. meets with Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya, businessman Kaveladze and
lobbyist Akhmetshin

Ike Kaveladze
Kaveladze is senior vice president of Crocus Group, owned by Aras and Emin Agalarov

Rinat Akhmetshin
Naturalized U.S. citizen and former Soviet military officer, Akhmetshin promotes pro-Kremlin interests

Paul Manafort
Jun 2016: Manafort attends meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya
Aug: Manafort resigns as Trump’s chief strategist amid questions about his links to pro-Putin ally, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych
2005-12: Manafort is paid to transform Yanukovych into popular candidate who wins presidency in 2010

Carter Page
Mar-Sep 2016: Page works for Trump campaign 
2004-07: Page lives in Russia – has contacts with Kremlin-run Gazprom and Rosneft, as well
as ambassador Kislyak




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