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Undated: Russian oligarchs (see the related term "New Russians") are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth during the era of Russian privatization in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested, which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials (mostly in Russia and Ukraine) as a means to acquire state property. Historian Edward L. Keenan has drawn a comparison between the current Russian phenomenon of oligarchs and the system of powerful boyars which emerged in late-Medieval Muscovy.[1]
The first modern Russian oligarchs emerged as business-sector entrepreneurs under Mikhail Gorbachev ( General Secretary 1985–1991) during his period of market liberalization.[2][need quotation to verify] The term "oligarch" derives from the Ancient Greek word ὀλιγάρχης (oligárkhēs), a derivative itself from oligarchy ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhia) meaning literally "the rule of the few".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
-- 2017 --
March/April: All of Trump’s Russia Ties, in 7 Charts
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868
-- 2018 --
April 6: Why Mueller Named a Russian Oligarch in Court
The Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on Friday may not be the only ones who interest Mueller as he looks for ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-muellers-eye-on-some-russian-oligarchs
April 6: Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0338
September 20: How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team
http://time.com/5401645/putins-oligarchs/
November 6: Russian oligarch who bought mansion from Trump detained and questioned on corruption charges
Dmitri Rybolovlev, president of AS Monaco, was detained voluntarily by authorities in Monaco on Tuesday and is under investigation for charges of corruption and influence peddling according to French news service Le Monde.
His purchase of the mansion is one of several Trump business transactions that Bloomberg News reported last year were under investigation by Mueller, who is probing allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election.
December 6: Putin’s ‘American’ Oligarch Privately Boasted of Trump Ties. Then He Lost Billions
A chance New York encounter between onetime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and a relative of Viktor Vekselberg has cost the Russian dearly.
Not long after Michael Cohen stopped pursuing a Trump-branded property project in Moscow, another Russian connection to the future U.S. president’s entourage started to form.
Like the real estate plan, it didn’t end well—particularly for Russian tycoon Viktor Vekselberg. His effort to engage in statecraft at the highest level unraveled spectacularly, costing him billions, cleaving his family and severing the extensive ties to the U.S. elite that turned him into what one Moscow newspaper called the “most American” of Vladimir Putin’s plutocrats.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-07/viktor-vekselberg-met-michael-cohen-then-he-lost-billions
December 17: Law enforcement, congressional, and media investigations over the last two years have revealed that Kremlin-linked actors paid considerable sums of money to support Trump and curry his favor. A Russian organization allegedly controlled by an oligarch [Oleg Deripaska] close to Putin spent more than $1 million a month just on social media campaigns favoring Trump, according to the special counsel.6
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
-- 2019 --
January 9: The New York Times issued a correction Wednesday to a report that said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort asked for campaign polling to be passed on to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
“A previous version of this article misidentified the people to whom Paul Manafort wanted a Russian associate to send polling data,” the Times said in its correction Wednesday. “Mr. Manafort wanted the data sent to two Ukrainian oligarchs, Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, not Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to the Kremlin.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-corrects-report-on-which-oligarchs-paul-manafort-wanted-to-give-polling-data
January 17: A majority of House Republicans broke with the Trump administration Thursday over its plan to lift sanctions on companies controlled by a Russian oligarch allied with Vladimir Putin.
They and 133 other House Republicans joined House Democrats in opposing a plan by the Treasury Department [Steve Mnuchin] to relax the sanctions, underscoring how issues involving Russia continue to divide congressional Republicans.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/17/house-republicans-break-trump-some-russian-sanctions/2606795002/
January 28: Trump's Treasury Department Just Lifted Sanctions on Three Businesses Linked to a Russian Oligarch [who is a Manafort creditor]
The Trump administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on three Russian firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
http://fortune.com/2019/01/28/trump-russia-sanctions-deripaska-putin/
January 30: With sanctions lifted, Trump transition member [Christopher Burnham] gets board position on Russian oligarch's company
As part of the deal to have the sanctions lifted, Deripaska agreed to dilute his control of EN+, the parent company of the Russian aluminum giant Rusal.
Democrats strongly opposed the deal and voted in the House to keep the sanctions but the measure was defeated in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Treasury Department claimed that the deal required Deripaska to “sever” his control of the companies but The New York Times reported that leaked documents revealed a scheme that allowed Deripaska to retain majority ownership of EN+. The Times added that the deal could possible free Deripaska from “hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/with-sanctions-lifted-trump-transition-member-gets-board-position-on-russian-oligarchs-company/
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