Russia’s foreign minister has denounced a dossier on president-elect Donald Trump compiled by a former British spy as a “rude provocation.”
Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday contemptuously referred to the dossier’s author as a “runaway swindler from MI6” without citing his name. The dossier was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy who served in Moscow in the early 1990s.
https://www.newsmax.com/World/Africa/EU-Russia-Foreign-Minister-The-Latest/2017/01/17/id/768893/
Donovan dropping out as Trump’s nominee for deputy Treasury secretary
Donovan’s departure will come as the administration struggles to push the focus back to its major policy initiatives and away from a series of revelations about the administration and Russia.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/19/jim-donovan-trump-deputy-treasury-secretary-238611