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Cashing in on the crown: How Trump turned the presidency into a personal money machine

Cashing in on the crown: How Trump turned the presidency into a personal money machine

Valery Nikolaev

The regime's minority stakeholders: Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions

The regime's minority stakeholders: Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions

All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used in making military armor continues to be supplied to Russia

All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used in making military armor continues to be supplied to Russia

Hawks on boats: Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev buys new UK-built yacht and profits from livestock and “patriotic” video games

Hawks on boats: Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev buys new UK-built yacht and profits from livestock and “patriotic” video games

Bullion bypass: How Russia circumvents sanctions to export billions of dollars worth of gold through Armenia

Bullion bypass: How Russia circumvents sanctions to export billions of dollars worth of gold through Armenia

Stamp them through: Russian oligarchs, FSB generals, religious figures, and children of the elite travel abroad under diplomatic cover

Stamp them through: Russian oligarchs, FSB generals, religious figures, and children of the elite travel abroad under diplomatic cover

Vaulted interests: Russian Ministry of Defense contractor supplies safes to the Lithuanian army

Vaulted interests: Russian Ministry of Defense contractor supplies safes to the Lithuanian army

Prosecutors' Business Bank: Tracking the offshore money laundering scheme of Zheleznyak and Leontiev

Prosecutors' Business Bank: Tracking the offshore money laundering scheme of Zheleznyak and Leontiev

Proxy billionaire: Ties with some of Putin’s oldest allies propel mystery businessman onto Russia’s Forbes list

Proxy billionaire: Ties with some of Putin’s oldest allies propel mystery businessman onto Russia’s Forbes list

Our flag means cash: The Latvian trader abetting Russia’s billion-dollar oil sanctions evasion

Our flag means cash: The Latvian trader abetting Russia’s billion-dollar oil sanctions evasion

Debt to the Fatherland: FSB general overseeing Russia’s National Guard hides from bailiffs in elite Moscow apartment

Debt to the Fatherland: FSB general overseeing Russia’s National Guard hides from bailiffs in elite Moscow apartment

Safe houses: FSB counterintelligence chief behind arrest of Evan Gershkovich is a secret billionaire rentier

Safe houses: FSB counterintelligence chief behind arrest of Evan Gershkovich is a secret billionaire rentier

Same as the old boss: New deputy head of Russia’s Defense Ministry Oleg Savelyev conceals his wife — and her luxury properties

Same as the old boss: New deputy head of Russia’s Defense Ministry Oleg Savelyev conceals his wife — and her luxury properties

The “Immortal Dreamer”: Putin’s family still buys its yachts and spare parts for private jets in the West, despite sanctions

The “Immortal Dreamer”: Putin’s family still buys its yachts and spare parts for private jets in the West, despite sanctions

Death metal: Russian Defense Ministry contractor close to Putin buys Maltese passport and French villa with money from weapons disposal

Death metal: Russian Defense Ministry contractor close to Putin buys Maltese passport and French villa with money from weapons disposal

Children’s magazines and fighting “soullessness”: Here’s what Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee was up to instead of fighting ISIS

Children’s magazines and fighting “soullessness”: Here’s what Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee was up to instead of fighting ISIS

Palme d’Oil: Gazprom Neft CEO avoids sanctions, buys mansion in French Riviera

Palme d’Oil: Gazprom Neft CEO avoids sanctions, buys mansion in French Riviera

Messieurs Kingpin: Makhmudov and Bokarev, Russian oligarchs with gang ties and Ukraine war profits, buy villas in France

Messieurs Kingpin: Makhmudov and Bokarev, Russian oligarchs with gang ties and Ukraine war profits, buy villas in France

Spoils of war failures: FSB general who botched Russia's war preparations owns millions of dollars worth of real estate

Spoils of war failures: FSB general who botched Russia's war preparations owns millions of dollars worth of real estate

Turning money into wine: With billions of rubles thrown at them, the wineries at Putin’s Black Sea palace are yet to break even

Turning money into wine: With billions of rubles thrown at them, the wineries at Putin’s Black Sea palace are yet to break even

Our man in Miami. Pro-Putin Russian billionaire accused of meddling in U.S. elections evades sanctions, moves family to America

Our man in Miami. Pro-Putin Russian billionaire accused of meddling in U.S. elections evades sanctions, moves family to America

A major general: How Mikhail Babich became a billionaire by tapping into Russia's Defense Ministry budget

A major general: How Mikhail Babich became a billionaire by tapping into Russia's Defense Ministry budget

Just outside the spotlight: The little-known success story of Putin's college pal Viktor Khmarin

Just outside the spotlight: The little-known success story of Putin's college pal Viktor Khmarin

Playing second fiddle: Cellist Sergei Roldugin exposed as nominal owner of Putin's newly discovered offshore firm

Playing second fiddle: Cellist Sergei Roldugin exposed as nominal owner of Putin's newly discovered offshore firm

Perks of the job: How presidential affairs manager Alexander Kolpakov amassed billions while aiding Putin hide stolen funds

Perks of the job: How presidential affairs manager Alexander Kolpakov amassed billions while aiding Putin hide stolen funds

Living the high life: how senior military officers get upscale apartments in Russia

Living the high life: how senior military officers get upscale apartments in Russia

Truckloads of money: Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov makes hundreds of millions on corrupt deals

Truckloads of money: Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov makes hundreds of millions on corrupt deals

Grand Cru for Putin's daughter: How Kremlin bypasses sanctions to buy luxury wine

Grand Cru for Putin's daughter: How Kremlin bypasses sanctions to buy luxury wine

Putin's daughters, Anna Chapman and others: The high-profile tenants of KGB and SVR safehouses

Cruise Ship Troopers: How Children of Russian Siloviki Have Fun Abroad in Wartime

Cruise Ship Troopers: How Children of Russian Siloviki Have Fun Abroad in Wartime

Safehouse blown. How Russian intelligence chief’s lady friend snatched Kim Philby’s apartment from his students

Safehouse blown. How Russian intelligence chief’s lady friend snatched Kim Philby’s apartment from his students

Real Kremlin agents in Riga: How criminal Russian oligarchs with Defense Ministry contracts do business in Latvia

Real Kremlin agents in Riga: How criminal Russian oligarchs with Defense Ministry contracts do business in Latvia

Blood red: Sanctioned oligarch Gennady Timchenko owns wineries in Tuscany and Krasnodar via entourage

Blood red: Sanctioned oligarch Gennady Timchenko owns wineries in Tuscany and Krasnodar via entourage

Oligarch’s Prosecutor. Deputy General Prosecutor Andrei Kikot accepts bribes from a real estate developer

Oligarch’s Prosecutor. Deputy General Prosecutor Andrei Kikot accepts bribes from a real estate developer

To Lithuania with love: How Sergei Shoigu's mistress became a major investor in Vilnius

To Lithuania with love: How Sergei Shoigu's mistress became a major investor in Vilnius

“There’s no money, hold on!” Dmitry Medvedev rents a land plot worth almost $8,5 million for $25, which he doesn’t pay either

“There’s no money, hold on!” Dmitry Medvedev rents a land plot worth almost $8,5 million for $25, which he doesn’t pay either

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