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  64. Richard Balmforth, “Kiev Protesters Gather, EU Dangles Aid Promise,” Reuters, December 11, 2013, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine/kiev-protesters-gather-eu-dangles-aid-promise-idUSBRE9BA04420131212.

  65. “President Yanukovych’s Plane Stopped Before Taking Off,” NBC News, February 23, 2014. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/president-yanukovychs-plane-stopped-taking-n36551.

  66. “Yanukovich Ob”yavlen v Rozysk—Avakov,” Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, February 24, 2014, https://www.unian.info/politics/910019-how-yanukovych-ran-from-ukraine-investigation.html.

  67. Natasha Bertard, “Hacked text messages allegedly sent by Paul Manafort’s daughter discuss ‘blood money’ and killings, and a Ukrainian lawyer wants him to explain,” Business Insider, March 21, 2017. http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-daughter-text-messages-ukraine-2017-3.

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: WAR BY OTHER MEANS

  1. Natan Dubovitsky, “Without Sky,” Russian Pioneer, May 2014.

  2. Peter Pomerantsev, “Putin’s Rasputin,” London Review of Books 33, no. 20 (October 20, 2011), https://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putins-rasputin.

  3. Pomerantsev, “Non-Linear War.”

  4. Dubovitsky, “Without Sky.”

  5. Peter Pomerantsev, “The Hidden Author of Putinism,” Atlantic, November 7, 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hidden-author-putinism-russia-vladislav-surkov/382489/.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Andrew Osborn, “Pro-Kremlin youth group accused of plagiarising Goebbels,” The Telegraph, November 10, 2010. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8134688/Pro-Kremlin-youth-group-accused-of-plagiarising-Goebbels.html.

  11. Tim Hains, “BBC’s Adam Curtis: How Propaganda Turned Russian Politics Into Theater,” Real Clear Politics, October 12, 2016, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/10/12/bbcs_adam_curtis_how_propaganda_turned_russian_politics_into_a_circus.html.

  12. Kasparov, Winter Is Coming.

  13. Dawisha, Putin’s Kleptocracy.

  14. Molly K. McKew, “The Gerasimov Doctrine,” Politico Magazine, September/October 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/gerasimov-doctrine-russia-foreign-policy-215538.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Mark Galeotti, “I’m Sorry for Creating the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine,’” Foreign Policy, March 5, 2018. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/05/im-sorry-for-creating-the-gerasimov-doctrine/.

  17. McKew, “Gerasimov Doctrine.”

  18. Anastasiya Kirilenko, “A Suitcase Full of Cash from the Solntsevo Mafia: Does Putin Have a Video Kompromat on the Hungarian Leader?,” The Insider, April 7, 2018, https://theins.ru/uncategorized/98262?lang=en.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Anastasiya Kirilenko, “Gangster Party Candidate: Trump’s Ties to Russian Organized Crime,” Insider, April 7, 2018, https://theins.ru/uncategorized/98190?lang=en.

  22. “Solntsevskaya OPG”; Ferranti, “Solntsevskaya Brotherhood.”

  23. Rumafiozi_eng, “Solntsevskaya Gang Tougher.”

  24. Michael Schwirtz, “For a Departed Mobster, Wreaths and Roses but No Tears,” New York Times, October 13, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/world/europe/14mobster.html.

  25. “People of Interest,” Reporting Project, “Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich.”

  26. Sergey Mikhailov website, “Charitable Foundation ‘Participation.’”

  27. Anastasia Kirilenko, “Gangster Party Candidate: Trump’s Ties to Russian Organized Crime,” Insider, https://theins.ru/korrupciya/97595/.

  28. Author’s interview with anonymous source.

  29. Author’s interview with anonymous source.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Anastasia Kirilenko, “Gangster Party candidate: Trump’s Ties to Russian Organized Crime,” Insider, https://theins.ru/korrupciya/97595.

  32. Author’s interview with Felix Sater.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Yuri Zarakhovich, “Viewpoint: Closing the Door,” Time, February 26, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,99921,00.html.

  35. Krishnadev Calamur, “Who Is Emin Agalarov?,” Atlantic, July 10, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/who-is-emin-agalarov/533127/.

  36. Comtek Expositions, Inc. v. Commissioner, United States Tax Court, docket no. 5130-00, filed May 13, 2003, https://www.leagle.com/decision/2003136585eetcm128011231.

  37. “Notorious Arms Dealer with Links to Russia’s Military Industry Suddenly Dies in Ukraine,” UAWire, October 8, 2017, https://uawire.org/notorious-arms-dealer-suddenly-dies-in-odessa#.

  38. Joby Warrick, “Ukrainian port eyed as analysts seek Syria’s arms source,” Washington Post, September 7, 2013.

  39. Nikolai Krotov, Andrey Kozlov: Ekonomicheskaya istoriya i sud’ba cheloveka (International Relations, Economic Chronicle, 2015), http://letopis.org/project/andrei-kozlov-ekonomicheskaya-istoria-i-sudba-cheloveka/.

  40. Luke Harding, “Putin, the Kremlin Power Struggle and the $40bn Fortune,” Guardian, December 20, 2007, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/21/russia.topstories3.

  41. Mikhail Rostovsky, “Araz Agalarov, milliarder s chelovecheskim litsom,” MKRU, August 11, 2015, http://www.mk.ru/social/2015/11/08/araz-agalarov-milliarder-s-chelovecheskim-licom.html.

  42. “OCCRP Names Aliyev ‘Person of the Year,’” Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, December 31, 2012, https://www.occrp.org/en/announcements/41-press-box/1772-occrp-names-aliyev-qperson-of-the-year-q-86373901.

  43. Neil MacFarquhar, “A Russian Developer Helps Out the Kremlin on Occasion. Was He a Conduit to Trump?,” New York Times, July 16, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/world/europe/aras-agalarov-trump-kremlin.html.

  44. Jennifer Gould Keil, “Billionaire Linked to Trump Email Scandal Selling His NJ Mansion,” New York Post, July 11, 2017, https://nypost.com/2017/07/11/billionaire-linked-to-trump-email-scandal-selling-his-nj-mansion/.

  45. Mollie Simon and Jim Zarroli, “Timeline of Events: The 2013 Miss Universe Pageant,” NPR, July 17, 217. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/536714404/timeline-of-events-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant.

  46. David Corn and Hannah Levintova, “How Did an Alleged Russian Mobster End Up on Trump’s Red Carpet?,” Mother Jones, September 14, 2016, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-russian-mobster-tokhtakhounov-miss-universe-moscow.

  47. United States of America v. Tokhtakhounov et al., 1:13-cr-00268, indictment, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/Tokhtakhounov%2C%20Alimzhan%20et%20al.%20Indictment_6.pdf.

  48. Ibid.

  49. Rumafiozi_eng, “Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Russian Mob, Mr. Little Taiwanese,” LiveJournal blog, August 27, 2011, https://rumafiozi-eng.livejournal.com/149072.html.

  50. Roger Boyes, “From Extortion to Prostitution,” Times (London), July 9, 2012, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-extortion-to-prostitution-gk9rwzssrc2.

  51. Yuri Felshtinsky, “Who Is Mr. Cohen? Trump’s Attorney Received $350,000 for the Izmaylovskaya Criminal Group—Felshtinsky,” GordonUA.com, April 12, 2017, http://english.gordonua.com/news/exclusiveenglish/who-is-mrcohen-trumps-attorney-received-350000-for-the-izmaylovskaya-criminal-group-felshtinsky-181620.html.

  52. Rumafiozi_eng, “Ambassador Plenipotentiary.”

  53. “Tayny Tayvanchika,” Compromat.ru, August 7, 2002, http://www.compromat.ru/page_12105.htm.

  54. Jeffrey Toobin, “Trump’s Miss Universe Gambit,” New Yorker, February 26, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/trumps-miss-universe-gambit.

  55. Press Release, “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 34 Members And Associates Of Two Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprises With Operating International Sportsbooks That Laundered More Than $100 Million,” Department of Ju
stice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Souther District of New York, April 16, 2013.

  56. William Bastone, “Trump Tower House Arrest For Racketeer,” The Smoking Gun, March 22, 2017.

  57. “The Global Intelligence Files,” WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/54/5481746_re-oleg-boiko-.html.

  58. William Bastone, “Trump Tower House Arrest for Racketeer,” Smoking Gun, March 22, 2017, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/house-arrest-in-trump-tower-378095.

  59. Ibid.

  60. Confidential, “High Roller Vadim Trincher Sues for $6 Million over Mildew Damages at Trump Tower,” Daily News (New York), October 8, 2012, condohttp://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/6-million-suit-mildew-damages-trump-tower-article-1.1177189.

  61. Kim Velsey, “Art Dealer Hillel Nahmad Completes His Trump Tower Collection, Buys Out Entire 51st Floor,” Observer, January 23, 2013, http://observer.com/2013/01/art-dealer-hillel-nahmad-completes-his-trump-tower-collection-buys-out-entire-51st-floor/.

  62. Megan Willett, “Meet the Billionaire Art-Dealing Playboy Who Was Arrested in a Massive Gambling Ring This Week,” Business Insider, April 18, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-life-of-hillel-helly-nahmad-2013-4.

  63. Oren Dorell, “Trump’s Business Network Reached Alleged Russian Mobsters,” USA Today, March 28, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-business-past-ties-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/.

  64. Henry, “Curious World.”

  65. United States of America v. Tokhtakhounov et al., indictment.

  66. Alec Luhn, “Billionaire US Art Dealer Hillel ‘Helly’ Nahmad Admits to Running $100m Global Gambling Ring,” Independent, November 14, 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russian-mobsters-a-hollywood-poker-princess-and-the-billionaire-us-art-dealer-who-admits-to-running-8940423.html.

  67. US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, “Two Defendants Sentenced for Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy with Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than $100 Million,” press release, FBI.gov, April 30, 2014, https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newyork/news/press-releases/two-defendants-sentenced-for-participating-in-racketeering-conspiracy-with-russian-american-organized-crime-enterprise-operating-international-sportsbook-that-laundered-more-than-100-million.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Michael Isikoff and David Corn, “Miss Universe in Moscow: How Trump’s Beauty Contest Spawned a Business Deal with Russians and a Bond with Putin,” Yahoo!, March 8, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/news/miss-universe-moscow-trumps-beauty-contest-spawned-business-deal-russians-bond-putin-100026386.html.

  70. Noah Kirsch, “The Full Exclusive Interview: Emin Agalarov, Russian Scion at Center of Trump Controversy,” Forbes, July 12, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/07/12/the-full-exclusive-interview-emin-agalarov-russian-donald-trump-jr-controversy/#3ee9ff9569d0.

  71. Isikoff and Corn, “Miss Universe in Moscow.”

  72. Jeremy Diamond, “Exclusive: Video shows Trump with associates tied to email controversy,” CNN, July 13, 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/12/politics/video-trump-relationships-russian-associates/index.html.

  73. Kyle Cheney and David Herszenhorn, “The Would-Be President and the Oligarch,” Politico, July 12, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/trump-russia-agalarov-240434.

  74. Kuisa Kroll and Kerry Dolan, “The World’s Billionaires 2018,” Forbes, March 6, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/#40264de1251c.

  75. Isikoff and Corn, “Miss Universe in Moscow.”

  76. Ibid.

  77. Jon Swaine and Shaun Walker, “Trump in Moscow: What Happened at Miss Universe in 2013,” Guardian, September 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013.

  78. Raymond Bonner, “Laundering of Money Seen as ‘Easy,’” New York Times, November 29, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/business/laundering-of-money-seen-as-easy.html.

  79. Jon Swaine, “Russian man at Trump Jr meeting had partner with Soviet intelligence ties, US investigators said,” The Guardian, July 21, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/21/donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-eighth-person-soviet-intelligence.

  80. United States General Accounting Office, “Suspicious Banking Activities: Possible Money Laundering by US Corporations Formed for Russian Entities,” Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, October 31, 2000, https://www.gao.gov/assets/240/230932.pdf.

  81. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”

  82. John Katsilometes, “Final Act: Nightclub at Palazzo Closes After Run-ins with Parent Company,” Las Vegas Sun, October 13, 2013, https://lasvegassun.com/blogs/kats-report/2013/oct/13/act-palazzo-closes/.

  83. Isikoff and Corn, “Miss Universe in Moscow.”

  84. TV News Desk, “Donald J. Trump Announces Miss Universe 2013 to Take Place in Moscow, Russia,” Broadway World, June 17, 2013, https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Donald-J-Trump-Announces-MISS-UNIVERSE-2013-To-Take-Place-in-Moscow-Russia-20130617.

  85. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “Do you think Putin . . . ,” Twitter, June 18, 2013, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/347191326112112640.

  86. Shane Harris, Rosalind S. Helderman and Karoun Demirjian, “In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant,” The Washington Post, March 9, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-personal-letter-trump-invited-putin-to-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant/2018/03/09/a3404358-23d2-11e8-a589-763893265565_story.html?utm_term=.66c727791cd8.

  87. Ibid.

  88. Jonathan O’Connell, David A. Fahrenthold and Jack Gillum, “As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire. Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash,” The Washington Post, May 5, 2018.

  89. Bill Littlefield, “A Day (and a Cheeseburger) with President Trump,” WBUR.org, May 5, 2017, http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/05/05/james-dodson-donald-trump-golf.

  90. Page Six Team, “Trump Researching 2016 Run,” Page Six, May 27, 2013, https://pagesix.com/2013/05/27/trump-researching-2016-run/.

  91. Neil Cavuto, “Is Donald Trump exploring a 2016 presidential run,” Fox News, May 29, 2013.

  92. Greta Van Susteren, “Trump: ‘Embarrassing’ how Putin has ‘played’ Obama,” Fox News, September 12, 2013. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2013/09/13/trump-embarrassing-how-putin-has-played-obama.html.

  93. Vernon Silver, “Flight Records Illuminate Mystery of Trump’s Moscow Nights,” Bloomberg, April 23, 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/flight-records-illuminate-mystery-of-trump-s-moscow-nights.

  94. “Phil Ruffin and Aleksandra Nikolaenko,” Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mfg45hgme/phil-ruffin-and-aleksandra-nikolaenko/#113ef323105d.

  95. Corn and Isikoff, “What Happened.”

  96. Ken Dilanian and Jonathan Allen, “Trump Bodyguard Keith Schiller Testifies Russian Offered Trump Women, Was Turned Down,” NBC News, November 9, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bodyguard-testifies-russian-offered-trump-women-was-turned-down-n819386.

  97. Andrew Kaczynski, “Trump Boasted in 2014 of Receiving Gift from Putin and Meeting His Advisers,” BuzzFeed, July 31, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/from-russia-with-love-trump?utm_term=.gr46OnNxm#.mgv8n29d3.

  98. Nobu Moscow, “Donald Trump and Emin Agalarov . . . ,” Facebook, November 8, 2013, https://www.facebook.com/nobumoscow/photos/a.163105327043858.30788.158786840809040/656802097674176/?type=3&theater.

  99. Silver, “Flight Records Illuminate.”

  100. Evgenia Pismennaya, Stephen Kravchenko and Stephanie Baker, “The Day Trump Came to Moscow: Oligarchs, Miss Universe and Nobu,” Bloomberg, December 21, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/the-day-trump-came-to-moscow-
oligarchs-miss-universe-and-nobu.

  101. Konrad Putzier, “Hotel Trio Aims to Bring Manhattan to Moscow,” Real Estate Weekly, May 28, 2018, http://rew-online.com/2013/11/12/hotel-trio-aims-to-bring-manhattan-to-moscow/.

  102. Seth Hettena, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History (New York: Melville House, 2018).

  103. Putzier, “Hotel Trio.”

  104. Ibid.

  105. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”

  106. Tessa Stuart, “A Timeline of Donald Trump’s Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe,” Rolling Stone, October 12, 2016, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/timeline-of-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-w444634.

  107. “Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced To Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed,” CBS LA, October 11, 2016. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/10/11/former-beauty-queen-she-other-contestants-were-forced-to-greet-trump-even-when-not-fully-dressed/.

  108. David Corn, “The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Is Now Very Simple,” Mother Jones, July 11, 2017. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/the-trump-russia-conspiracy-is-now-very-simple/.

  109. Miss Universe Organization, “Donald Trump Announces Miss Universe 2013 to Take Place at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia,” press release, June 16, 2013, https://data.occrp.org/documents/6308844?documentq=Agalarov#page=1&mode=view.

  110. Nellie Andreeva, “Ratings Rat Race: Miss Universe Down in Saturday Move, College Football Tops Night,” Deadline, November 10, 2013, http://deadline.com/2013/11/ratings-rat-race-miss-universe-down-in-saturday-move-college-football-tops-night-631871/.

  111. “Aras Agalarov did not let Donald Trump to his beauties,” Minval.az, 2013. https://minval.az/news/26073.

  112. Author’s interview with Sipher.

  113. Anna Nemtsova, “Behind the Scenes at Trump’s Infamous Night in Moscow—and How It Led to Twitterdammerung,” Daily Beast, July 12, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/behind-the-scenes-at-trumps-infamous-night-in-moscowand-how-it-led-to-twitterdammerung.

  114. Hugh Hewitt Show, “Donald Trump Returns,” September 21, 2015.

  115. Silver, “Flight Records Illuminate Mystery.”

 

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