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Futile desperation propaganda is futile.
Please stop. No one buys this you delusional buffoon. People know what's going on.
The swamp is getting drained.
Its intelligence 101.Futile desperation propaganda is futile.
Please stop. No one buys this you delusional buffoon. People know what's going on.
The swamp is getting drained.
You just implied that these were paid shills. Now I tell you that he's not a shill and you move the goalposts. Pick an argumentYeah, he posts tweets every 15 minutes non-stop.
Unwitting agent. Big differenceTrump isnt smart enough to be a russian double agent..
Just stop
Why are Russian MPs saying that these trade organization's are front companies for the Russian government?!Honestly Nap You should stay away from twitter before you hurt yourself...theres too much psychologically manipulative propaganda designed to get emotional responses
Its not suited to mentally fragile people like you
Financial Times?? Are they still in business??...I havent heard that name in years...You probably dont even know who they are stop pretending..Theyre a UK based papaer thats now below tabloid status.
And yes i dont deserve to be blessed with your dumbass forged articles and concoted propaganda...nobody deserves that garbage....Read the article you posted..all it says is some russians invested in Trump
Thats some ground breaking journalism right there....Do you actually read these things or just shyt on yourself when you see the headlines?????
I guess the Financial Times Is full of shyt too? @Aelyas en passant
You fukking dumbass. I swear to whatever god you believe in sometimes you don't deserve the information I bring to you...
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The shadowy Russian émigré touting Trump
US election raises ghosts of cold war-era spy games
FT Investigations
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Sergei Millian (l), Donald Trump and Jorge Perez in a photograph posted on Facebook by Mr Millian in 2014
Catherine Belton in London
When Sergei Millian was appointed head of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the US in 2006, the young former Soviet émigré came to typify Russia’s new projection of soft power.
He gave dozens of interviews to Russian state media as an expert on the US and appeared on US television opposing sanctions on Russia. He gadded about town with New York luxury real-estate brokers, even appearing on a reality TV programme called Million Dollar Listing, prompting one newspaper to nickname him “The Moscow Mule”.
Friends approved when he posted a photograph on Facebook in 2014 of himself with Donald Trump and Jorge Perez, the billionaire owner of the Related Group, a Miami real-estate developer, at the races. Then this year, Mr Millian, now 36, began speaking of how Russia-US relations would improve under the presidency of Mr Trump, with whose organisation he said he had worked as a real-estate broker and maintained ties. “I can assure you he is very positive and friendly,” he told the Russian state news agency, Ria Novosti, in January.
In the past, such activities might have seemed harmless. But now the US administration has formally accused Russia of attempting to interfere in the US electoral process through the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s email servers, Mr Millian’s activities — and his ties to the Republican presidential nominee — are coming under increasing scrutiny.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, has called Mr Trump a Kremlin puppet, pointing to his pro-Moscow advisers and his consistently pro-Putin line. Mr Trump has played down his links to Russia.
But questions are mounting over whether Mr Millian was one of a number of people who could have acted as intermediaries to build ties between Moscow and Mr Trump. This comes after Paul Manafort resigned earlier this year as Mr Trump’s campaign chief after controversy over his years of consulting work for Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Moscow former president of Ukraine.
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At the same time, the US intelligence community is grappling with the fact that Russian intelligence operations on US soil may be more extensive than previously thought. As Russia has sought to restore its standing on the world stage, it has poured funding into soft power outfits such as Russia Today, a state-run global television channel, and Rossotrudnichestvo, a state entity that organises cultural exchanges. Similar organisations were used in Soviet times as a front for espionage.
A debate is deepening in Washington over how to deal with such Russian institutions and whether they should register under the Foreign Agent Registration act, according to a former senior US administration official. “The debate is being closely tracked by the FBI,” the official said.
Mr Millian insists his Russian American Chamber of Commerce (RACC) has nothing to do with the Russian government. He says it is funded by payments from its commercial members alone.
Most of the board members are obscure entities and nearly half of their telephone numbers went unanswered when called by the Financial Times.An FT reporter found no trace of the Chamber of Commerce at the Wall Street address listed on its website. At the same time, the chamber appears to have close official ties, arranging trips for visiting Russian regional governors to the US. In January 2015, the Russian government awarded Mr Millian a prize for his work developing ties between Russian and American businesspeople.
Mr Millian warned of “false accusations” and “negligent reporting”. He said the chamber of commerce keeps an official office address registered at Wall Street and pays for the service provided. He added that it had cut most of its services and activities in the US and Russia due to “the adverse political situation”.
For Konstantin Borovoi, a former Russian MP and businessman who was president of Russia’s first commodities exchange, the chamber’s type of operations hark back to cold war practices. In Soviet times, the American Trade Chamber was “the official representative office of the secret services”, said Mr Borovoi, who is also an expert on the KGB. “These institutions have been revived and developed,” he said. “The chamber of commerce institutions are the visible part of the agent network … Russia has spent huge amounts of money on this.”
Mr Millian came on to the FBI’s radar after he participated in a 2011 trip to Moscow for 50 US businessmen and offered to organise further trips. The FBI pulled in the US participants to ask them whether Russian intelligence tried to recruit them during the all-expenses paid trip, three attendees told the Financial Times. One of them said the FBI told him they suspected that some of the people who organised the trips were spies.
The questioning formed part of a wider FBI probe into whether Yury Zaytsev, the head of the Washington DC arm of Rossotrudnichestvo, was recruiting for Russian intelligence. Mr Zaytsev had been the lead organiser for the trip. The Russian foreign ministry said reports of the probe were “fabrications” that had “nothing to do with reality”. Mr Zaytsev, however, quietly returned to Russia shortly after the FBI probe, dismissing the accusation as “no more than an echo of the cold war”.
Mr Millian remained in the US, writing to thank then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev following the trip and offering to help organise more such visits, according to a copy of his letter seen by the FT.
The FBI probe was part of a wake-up call for US intelligence over suspicions that Russia was activating networks long thought defunct after the end of the cold war. “The number of Russian intelligence operatives in the US is much higher than anyone thought,” one former senior US intelligence official said.
Tamir Sapir (2nd right) joins Donald Trump, members of the Trump family and others at the launch of Trump SoHo
By the time of the trip, Mr Millian had built extensive ties with Mr Trump and his organisation, according to boasts he made in an in-depth interview with Russian state agency Ria Novosti in April this year. He praised Mr Trump for developing business projects with Russian speakers in the US, citing Trump SoHo in New York, a project led by Tamir Sapir, a Georgian billionaire who started out in the US selling electronic goods to visiting Soviet officials.
Mr Millian told Ria he first met Mr Trump after “mutual acquaintances” helped organise a visit by the real-estate mogul to the 2007 Millionaire’s Fair in Moscow. Mr Trump invited him to horse races in Miami shortly afterwards, he said — a statement that chimes with the Facebook photograph he posted.
Mr Millian claimed Mr Trump then introduced him to Michael Cohen, the Trump Organisation’s chief legal counsel, who granted him rights to market Trump Organisation properties in Russia and the former Soviet Union. “You could say I was their exclusive broker,” he told Ria. “Then, in 2007-2008, dozens of Russians bought apartments in Trump properties in the US.” He later told ABC television that the Trump Organisation had received “hundreds of millions of dollars” through deals with Russian businessmen.
When the west thought the cold war competition was over, they lost respect for their opponent. Now they are waking up to this again
Konstantin Zatullin, Russian parliamentary committee chief
Now that scrutiny has increased, Mr Millian has played down his connections with Mr Trump. He declined repeated requests for an interview and left the US for Asia on a business trip in early October. In emailed responses to questions from the Financial Times, Mr Millian described himself as one of several brokers who worked on Mr Trump’s real estate projects. “I never represented Mr Trump personally and I am not working with Mr Trump,” he said. “I have never been paid by Mr Trump for any work.” He added that he had never consulted Mr Trump on any political topic.
The chamber of commerce removed from its website earlier this year an April 2009 newsletter, where Mr Millian said the chamber had “signed formal agreements” with the Trump Organisation, Mr Perez’s Related Group and one other company to “jointly service the Russian clients’ commercial, residential and industrial real-estate needs”.
Mr Cohen dismissed Mr Millian’s earlier comments about his work with Mr Trump as “nothing more than a weak attempt to align himself with Mr Trump’s overwhelmingly successful brand”. Mr Cohen did not respond to questions about whether he interacted with Mr Millian or why Mr Millian is one of only 100 people he follows on Twitter. The Related Group, in a carefully worded statement, said it had no record of any dealings with Mr Millian.
Hope Hicks, Mr Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, said Mr Trump had “met and spoke” with Mr Millian only “on one occasion almost a decade ago at a hotel opening”.
One of the chamber’s main backers is Mikhail Morgulis, a prominent Soviet émigré who also serves as Belarus honorary consul to the US. He told the FT Mr Millian had explained to him he was helping Mr Trump and the Republican party. “We have soft power and we are trying to change relations now,” Mr Morgulis said.
Russia is officially denying any suggestion it is interfering in the US electoral process or supporting Mr Trump. For Konstantin Zatullin, head of the Russian parliament’s CIS affairs committee and a vocal proponent of restoring Russian power, the accusations are redolent of McCarthyism.
But behind the denials, a tinge of pride is visible. “While the west was playing with James Bond … we turned our attention to gaining respect,” said Mr Zatullin. “When the west thought the cold war competition was over, they lost respect for their opponent. Now they are waking up to this again.”
Its intelligence 101.
Have you worked in intelligence or did you learn Intelligence 101 from Tweets?
Have you worked in intelligence or did you learn Intelligence 101 from Tweets?