Epstein Secrets

"They're Salafists but not extremists," explains Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Inst

nown opposition to the Iraq War, he is also cultivating a strong military and energy-based relationship with the post- Saddam government in Baghdad. Gazprom and Rosneft have moved in to capitalize on Iraq's increased oil and gas outputs. Last summer, contracts were signed for Russia to sell Iraq $4.2 bi

EFTA00636689 Israeli involvement is explored by Andrew Tabler, who argues that while Damascus would ign

s making a play for natural gas in the Levant basin. Between the overt ambitions of President Vladimir Putin's government, state-owned energy giant Gazprom, and private companies, a concerted effort to establish a strategic commercial edge in the developing Israeli, Lebanese and Cypriot markets is unde

ff the table, then what are you left with?" said Andrew C. Kuchins, who heads the Russia and Eurasia Pro

ake internal European pressures to boycott Israel go away. Yet Cyprus's close ties to Russia, and its dealings with Russia's state-run gas monopoly Gazprom, raise questions about whether relying on the Cypriot connection might be sowing the seeds of trouble later on. Another idea I discussed with Nobl

rskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card; and Barack Obama’s Rahm Emanuel and Bill Da

at all.) * Carter Page, a banker of uncertain portfolio who had spent time in Russia and billed himself as having advised the state-run oil company, Gazprom, and who showed up on a hastily assembled list of Trump foreign policy advisers and who, it would turn out, the FBI was closely monitoring in what it

avid, 58, 144, 177, 234, 237, 301 Bowles, Erskine, 27 Boyle, Matthew, 298-300 Boy Scouts of America, 284 Brady, Tom, 50 Brand, Rachel, 279 Breitbart, Andrew, 58-59 Breitbart News, 2, 32, 58-59, 62, 121, 126-29, 138, 160-62, 167, 179-80, 196, 207-8, 237, 266, 275, 297-98, 309 Brennan, John, 6, 41 Brexit

284, 298 Franken, Al, 151-52 Freedom Caucus, 161, 171 Fusion GPS, 37, 99 G20 summit, 257 Gaddafi, Muammar, 270 Gamergate, 59 Gawker, 308 Gaza, 6 Gazprom, 101 Geffen, David, 12, 178 General Electric (GE), 88 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020126 General Motors, 88 Georgia (post-Soviet), 226 Gingrich, Newt, 177

ion supporter ikhail Khodorkovsky was dispatched to a Rus- sian prison for 10 years for daring to challenge Putin. In 2017, anticorruption campaigner Andrei Navalny, widely regarded as the most serious challenger to Putin, was effectively eliminated from the 2018 presidential contest after being convicted

e-friendly organizations have generally been left alone. emorial, the human rights organization founded to carry forward the ideals associated with Andrey Sakharov, was one of the first groups to be unilaterally registered as a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry in 2014. In 2015, the ministry accuse

/story/2017/03/michael-flynn-lobby-turkey-235843. 21. Ben Stewart, “When Russia Declared War on Greenpeace: The Story of the Arctic 30 Captured on a Gazprom Drilling Platform and Sentenced to Years in Jail,” Independent, April 11, 2015, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/when-russia-declared-