TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 9月23日 00時21分

From the beginning of his 19 years in power, Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned his country’s wealthiest men into a loose but loyal band of operatives. In exchange for lucrative deals with the government, or simply protection from the authorities, these #billionaires have gathered contacts at the highest levels of U.S. #politics, high enough to influence policy in the service of the Russian state. “These are cats that like to bring dead mice to the Kremlin,” says Mark Galeotti, a leading expert in Putin’s influence operations at the Prague-based Institute of International Relations. And in the #Trumps, the oligarchs found plump targets. One Russian billionaire hosted Ivanka Trump and her husband, now President @ドナルド・トランプ’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, at a gala in Moscow in 2014. Another has links to a $500,000 payment to Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen in 2017. A third ran a propaganda operation that pumped pro-Trump content into the news feeds of millions of American voters. In the heat of the presidential race, a fourth tycoon arranged the meeting where a Russian lawyer offered dirt on Hillary Clinton to Trump’s closest aides. And then of course there was Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Putin, whose years of fishing for friends in Washington eventually got the chairman of a presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, on the line. (As part of his guilty plea on Sept. 14 to charges stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, Manafort agreed to cooperate “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly” with the special counsel.) Reviews of legal records and interviews with oligarchs and their associates in Russia and the West show just how far they have gone. They also show how deeply they penetrated the 2016 U.S. presidential contest, and the campaign of Donald Trump. Read this week's full International cover story on TIME.com. Illustration by @obrienillustration for TIME

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