Posted on 11/16/2020 11:18:11 PM PST by bitt
Russian oligarch Elena Baturina wired $3.5 million in February 2014 to a Hunter Biden-linked firm.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elena-baturina/
Russia’s wealthiest woman, Elena Baturina, is married to Yury Luzkhkov, who was the mayor of Moscow for years.
In 2010, Luzhkov was removed from the mayor’s post; Baturina and their daughters left the country.
Baturina soon sold almost all of her assets in Russia including a construction company called Inteko and a cement factories.
The Russian government seized land she owned in an exclusive area of Moscow. She filed a lawsuit, unsuccessfully demanding $1 billion in compensation.
Baturina, who now lives in London, owns hotels in cities like Vienna and Dublin, real estate in Europe and USA, and invests in renewable energy.
ON FORBES LISTS
#1613
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Open season on politicians. Democrats are HVTs.
244 years.
Hunter Biden...nothing to see here, folks, move on.
Hunter Biden... the gift that keeps on giving... Never mind that he's a political and social wolf's head.
Of course, he's still in hiding and won't be seen until his POS father gets the swift kick in the a#@ he so richly deserves!
Everyone of that crowd of greedy, unprincipled, double-dealing traitors needs jail time.
Hunter Biden is probably reaching out to Vladimir Putin right now trying to get some sweet deals, including that position on the LukOil board, Uranium One, Gazprom, and the Russian space industry (he will regulate SpaceX into oblivion)...
FYI: Ukrainian gas giant Burisma is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a close ally of Russian president Putin. In fact, he was an official in the “puppet” regime that Putin had installed in the Ukraine through a rigged election [energy minister and later deputy national security council chair]. The former ‘puppet’ president was thrown out of office in 2014 following Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” and immediately went into hiding in Russia where he remains wanted in Ukraine for the crime of high treason.
That said...
[quote]
“PUTIN’S FRIEND was paying Joe’s son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars. And he got under investigation.”
—Rudy Giuliani
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Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity show, Fox News, May 2019:
GIULIANI: He [Hunter Biden] was working for the most corrupt company in the Ukraine [Burisma]. He was working for a Ukrainian oligarch who was being protected by Putin. The same Putin that we have been hearing about for all this time, right? Imagine that.
GIULIANI [continuing]: Putin’s friend was paying Joe’s son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars. And he got under investigation. And Joe bragged two years later that he got the prosecutor general fired. He just left out of it that the prosecutor general was investigating his son and his son’s crooked boss [Putin’s friend]. And then afterwards, the case disappeared.
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"PRO-RUSSIAN corrupt officials"
--Rudy Giuliani
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[Rudy] Giuliani:
"The fact is, this was a massive collusion between the Democratic National Committee, officials of the Obama administration, (Hillary) Clinton people, and the Ukrainian officials, corrupt officials — who, by the way, were pro-Russian corrupt officials"
[excerpt]
Ukrainian officials on Saturday announced they intercepted a $6 million bribe attempt to stop a criminal investigation into the president of Burisma ...”
[Ukraine’s anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar] Kholodnitsky and the head of the national anti-corruption bureau, Artem Sytnik, said the bribe was intended to encourage their offices to halt a probe of Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma and a former minister of ecology. Zlochevsky was accused of using his ministerial position for personal enrichment.
Three people, including a high-ranking tax service official, have been detained in connection with the attempted bribe, officials said Saturday.
In a statement, Burisma claimed the company had nothing to do with any bribe attempt.
“Neither Burisma Group President Mykola Zlochevsky nor other employees of the company have any relationship to the voiced events,” the company said. “Mykola Zlochevsky didn’t ask for anyone to commit wrong actions and never contributed to such actions.”
[excerpt]
“Yes, in Ukraine he (Hunter Biden) had or maybe still has a business, I don't know. It doesn't concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians,” Putin said, according to Reuters.
“But well, yes, he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money.”
He added: “I don't see anything criminal about this, at least we don't know anything about this (being criminal).”
Below, from DailyMail, October 7, 2020
“It was only last month [Sept 2020] when Baturina’s connection to Hunter Biden came to light in the recent GOP report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The report stated the [total 3.5 MILLION] transactions occurred in February 2014 - while Joe Biden was still vice president.”
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Below, from Wikipedia
“The Crimean Peninsula, north of the Black Sea in Europe, was annexed by the Russian Federation between February and March 2014 and since then has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.[40]
The annexation from Ukraine followed a Russian military intervention in Crimea that took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine.[41][42] ...”
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The Russian(s) who gave Hunter Biden the $3.5 MILLION was a strong advocate for Russia taking Crimea...
Below, from the Washington Post.
“Projecting authority far beyond that of an ordinary city boss, Mr. Luzhkov [former mayor of Moscow] advocated for the restoration of Russia’s influence over its former Soviet neighbors, foreshadowing the policies that in recent years have bolstered the popularity of President Vladimir Putin.
He argued that Crimea belonged to Russia two decades before Putin annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.”
Yuri Luzhkov, transformative Moscow mayor, dies at 83
by David Filipov, Washington Post, Dec 10, 2019
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to “show his manhood.”
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
“We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths.
I mean, Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time,” Trump said. ...”
“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts.
That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.” ..."
[Pence continues]
What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East. ..."
“During the Ukrainian prime minister’s visit to Washington last week [Mar 2014], his government urgently requested military assistance.
The [Obama administration] Pentagon refused. It offered instead military [food] ration kits.
Putin mobilizes thousands of troops, artillery and attack helicopters on Ukraine’s borders and Washington counters with baguettes, American-style.
One thing we can say for sure in these uncertain times: The invasion of Ukraine will be catered by the United States.
Why did we [Obama admin] deny Ukraine weapons?
Because in the Barack Obama-John Kerry worldview, arming the victim might be taken as a provocation.
This kind of mind-bending illogic has marked the administration’s response to the whole Crimea affair.
Why, after all, did Obama delay responding to Putin’s infiltration, military occupation and seizure of Crimea in the first place?”
—Washington Post, March 20, 2014
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