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Paul Ryan and Nikki Haley will be honored at a gala funded by a Russia-linked oligarch
Paul Ryan and Nikki Haley will be honored at a gala funded by a Russia-linked oligarch
House speaker Paul Ryan and UN ambassador Nikki Haley will be honored at a dinner tonight funded in part by a Soviet-born oligarch whose business associates are under US sanctions, and whose political donations have reportedly been examined by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Len Blavatnik’s foundation is named as the ”patron sponsor” of the conservative Hudson Institute think tank’s award gala in New York. Previous award recipients include Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and vice president Mike Pence.
Blavatnik, a US citizen raised in the Soviet Union who is in business with two US-sanctioned Russian oligarchs, has dramatically increased his political donations in recent years. Since 2015, he has given $7.6 million to Republicans, $1 million to president Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, and half a million to Democrats, Federal Election Committee filings show. In the years before then, he made relatively small, bipartisan donations.
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Blavatnik and his longtime business partner, US-sanctioned oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, own a large stake in aluminum giant Rusal, which is owned by fellow oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska and Rusal are also sanctioned by the US Treasury, which says the oligarch “does not separate himself from the Russian state.” Both Deripaska and Vekselberg have featured in the Mueller probe, with Vekselberg reportedly questioned by Mueller’s team earlier this year.
More: https://qz.com/1482624/paul-ryan-and-nikki-haley-are-receiving-hudson-institute-awards-sponsored-by-len-blavatnik/
House speaker Paul Ryan and UN ambassador Nikki Haley will be honored at a dinner tonight funded in part by a Soviet-born oligarch whose business associates are under US sanctions, and whose political donations have reportedly been examined by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Len Blavatnik’s foundation is named as the ”patron sponsor” of the conservative Hudson Institute think tank’s award gala in New York. Previous award recipients include Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and vice president Mike Pence.
Blavatnik, a US citizen raised in the Soviet Union who is in business with two US-sanctioned Russian oligarchs, has dramatically increased his political donations in recent years. Since 2015, he has given $7.6 million to Republicans, $1 million to president Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, and half a million to Democrats, Federal Election Committee filings show. In the years before then, he made relatively small, bipartisan donations.
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Blavatnik and his longtime business partner, US-sanctioned oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, own a large stake in aluminum giant Rusal, which is owned by fellow oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska and Rusal are also sanctioned by the US Treasury, which says the oligarch “does not separate himself from the Russian state.” Both Deripaska and Vekselberg have featured in the Mueller probe, with Vekselberg reportedly questioned by Mueller’s team earlier this year.
More: https://qz.com/1482624/paul-ryan-and-nikki-haley-are-receiving-hudson-institute-awards-sponsored-by-len-blavatnik/
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