Opinion
We still don’t know the details of Donald Trump’s possible collusion with Russia  but as a result of his election  the febrile atmosphere Pomerantsev described has spread to the United States. Our politics feel dreamlike in their garish improbability; a running joke on Twitter is that the showrunners for this season of America have jumped the shark.
It sounds  of course  like an outrageous scam  and perhaps it is. But Vashukevich  who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka  has a documented link to Oleg Deripaska  an oligarch who figures prominently in one of the scandals surrounding the  Trump  campaign. Indeed  that link may be why she’s locked up in the first place. Whether you believe her or not  her bizarre  sordid story offers real clues to the chain connecting  Trump ’s circle to the highest level of the Russian government.
Deripaska  remember  is the oligarch that the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort offered to brief privately on the American presidential campaign. He’s been connected to Russian organized crime  and Manafort appeared to owe him a lot of money. (A court filing in the Cayman Islands said Manafort and his deputy  Rick Gates  couldn’t account for nearly $19 million that they were supposed to invest for a business controlled by Deripaska.) After joining the  Trump  campaign  Manafort emailed an intermediary  asking  apparently in reference to Deripaska  “How do we use to get whole?”
Navalny initially dismissed speculation that Deripaska had served as a back channel between the  Trump  campaign and the Kremlin. “Among all the conspiracy theories of American mass media  this part was the most unconvincing ” he said in the video. “Many oligarchs are close to Putin ” and there was no evidence that Deripaska was transmitting secret intelligence to him.
We still don’t know the details of [TGT] possible collusion with Russia  but as a result of [TGT] election  the febrile atmosphere Pomerantsev described has spread to the United States. Our politics feel dreamlike in their garish improbability; a running joke on Twitter is that the showrunners for this season of America have jumped the shark.
It sounds  of course  like an outrageous scam  and perhaps it is. But Vashukevich  who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka  has a documented link to Oleg Deripaska  an oligarch who figures prominently in one of the scandals surrounding the  Trump  campaign. Indeed  that link may be why she’s locked up in the first place. Whether you believe her or not  her bizarre  sordid story offers real clues to the chain connecting  Trump ’s circle to the highest level of the Russian government.
Deripaska  remember  is the oligarch that the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort offered to brief privately on the American presidential campaign. He’s been connected to Russian organized crime  and Manafort appeared to owe him a lot of money. (A court filing in the Cayman Islands said Manafort and his deputy  Rick Gates  couldn’t account for nearly $19 million that they were supposed to invest for a business controlled by Deripaska.) After joining the  Trump  campaign  Manafort emailed an intermediary  asking  apparently in reference to Deripaska  “How do we use to get whole?”
Navalny initially dismissed speculation that Deripaska had served as a back channel between the  Trump  campaign and the Kremlin. “Among all the conspiracy theories of American mass media  this part was the most unconvincing ” he said in the video. “Many oligarchs are close to Putin ” and there was no evidence that Deripaska was transmitting secret intelligence to him.