By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER JAN. 11, 2017 When the Soviet Union set up the Intourist hotel and travel company under Stalin, the bellboys, drivers, cooks and maids all worked for the N.K.V.D., the secret police agency later known as the K.G.B. Also on the payroll were the prostitutes deployed to entrap and blackmail visiting foreign politicians […]
JUSTIN SCHECK, JAMES MARSON and BRADLEY OLSON Updated Jan. 9, 2017 4:32 p.m. MOSCOW—In the spring of 2014, after the U.S. punished Russia with sanctions for seizing Ukrainian territory, Rex Tillerson made a major decision. The Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive, now Donald Trump ’s nominee for secretary of state, would deepen his company’s longstanding partnership […]
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By Peter Lance. December 30th, 2016. HuffPost The man who’ll soon occupy the same Oval Office as the man who once insisted that, “if the President does it, that means it’s not illegal,” ended the year with a message on Twitter proving that he hasn’t changed in two years. Back then on New Year’s Eve of […]
By ANDREW HIGGINS DEC. 9, 2016 CAMBRIDGE, England — His indomitable will steeled by a dozen years in the Soviet gulag, decades of sparring with the K.G.B. and a bout of near fatal heart disease, Vladimir K. Bukovsky, a tireless opponent of Soviet leaders and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is not a man easily put off his stride. […]
By Franklin Foer November 2nd, 2016 On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually configured, and to communicate almost exclusively with two servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow. The piece followed a group of computer scientists who had stumbled […]
BY KEN DILANIAN, ROBERT WINDREM, WILLIAM M. ARKIN and TOM WINTER Reported by CYNTHIA McFADDEN Nov. 1, 2016 The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a […]
By Sean Colarossi on Mon, Oct 31st, 2016 at 8:47 pm While the media continues to focus on what is increasingly becoming a non-story – FBI Director James Comey’s vague letter regarding more emails related to Hillary Clinton – news about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia continues to gain steam. Not only did NBC just […]
