Russians had begun collaborating with Italian mobsters as early as 1980... — Craig Unger

[H]einous bombings that killed... three hundred... were likely the product of a "" operation that enabled Putin to consolidate power, much as Adolf Hitler did after the .

Vnesheconombank, or VEB... bought $850 million of stock... from Shnaider... $15 million... went into the Trump Toronto project. ...[T]he chairman of VEB’s ...board ...Vladimir Putin.

Bayrock’s leadership... billionaire oligarchs from the former Soviet Union.