Russiagate (English, name)
expansion: Russiagate
Senses:
glosses: A scandal in the late 1990s in which billions of dollars were laundered out of Russia by the bureaucracy of president Boris Yeltsin with the assistance of Western banks such as the Bank of New York.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the US presidential election in 2016 regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.
tags: US
informal
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