by Jim Heath | Jan 29, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
The Trump Administration announced Sunday that it had ended sanctions on three companies controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, then the very next day a Trump insider was appointed to Deripaska’s board. Sanctions on Russian energy giant EuroSibEnergo,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 27, 2019 | Headlines, Trump
The U.S. Treasury Department today officially lifted sanctions on businesses tied to the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The department said that the Office of Foreign Assets Control lifted sanctions on EN+ Group Plc and EuroSibEnergo JSC, noting that each company...
by Jim Heath | Jan 26, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
President Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks or their intermediaries before his inauguration, according to an analysis published by The New York Times today. Then-candidate Trump had at least...
by Jim Heath | Jan 17, 2019 | Headlines
In a major rebuke of President Trump, the House overwhelming passed a resolution today formally disapproving of the Trump administration’s rolling back of sanctions on companies owned by Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska is an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin....
by Jim Heath | Jan 16, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said today that he “never said there was no collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia. “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign. Or between people in the campaign,”...
