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)...
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.”
___________________________
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] ...”
__________________________________________
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