The report @BorisJohnson is sitting on should be leaked by a whistleblower in the national interest. Voters about to choose the next government have a right to know what's been going on as after the general election 🗳 it’s too late 👇🏼 #ReleaseTheRussiaReport#GE2019
Since 2004, Russian trolls, service providers, security services and shady businessmen have been linked to political interference in 27 countries worldwide. #Russia
Russian crime lords contributed to election campaigns in Lithuania, Russian spooks stole emails from Donald Trump's opponents and dumped them with Wikileaks #TrumpCrimeCommission#RussiaGate#RussianAsset
last year Russian government figures were linked to a plot to channel millions of oil dollars to Italy's Far Right leader Matteo Salvini. Google him 👇🏼👇🏼#RussianAsse#GeneralElection2019
@BorisJohnson holidays with the son of an ex-KGB @mrevgenylebedev He refuses to say why he dumped his government security team to do so. His party takes vast amounts of money for its election efforts from 9 Russian multi-millionaires, but it is of no importance.
We don't have a problem with trolls. Just a Russian-backed troll farm sending out 45,000 tweets in the 48 hours before a vote on Brexit which was very much in Vladimir Putin's interests ask Dominic Cummings he knows more than he will say #RussianAssets 👇🏼 #GeneralElection2019 👇🏼
Our Tory politicians cannot be bought @BorisJohnson will say. There's only 81 people who gave a total of £7.4million to the Tories to have dinner and drinks with the top echelons of the party 👉🏼 #Russia
@sajidjavid is as sure as he can be that everything's absolutely peachy, just like he was in June when he made the future PM promise to hold the Islamophobia investigation that he's just cancelled. #Russia#ReleaseTheRussianReport
There's nothing in that report, anyway. Nothing about rumoured Russian honeytraps of senior politicians, nothing about Russians targeting the renowned totty-chaser currently in Number 10 @BorisJohnson ask yourself why is he holding off until the election is done .? #Russia
9 Tory donors have reportedly found themselves named in a Security and Intelligence Select Committee report about illicit Russian activities in the UK. #Russia#GeneralElection2019
Reported widely “ Guardian journalists are Kremlin and Qatari agents': Russian tycoon trolls newspaper after ‘KGB agent' smear job 👇🏼#Russia#GeneralElection2019
Boris Johnson met an ex-KGB agent during a highly controversial trip to attend a party two days after attending a high-level Nato summit that focused on Russia,” #RussianAsset
Tory donor Alexander Temerko google him 👇🏼 #RussianAsset
Temerko as one of several wealthy Russian emigres who had an “ongoing relationship” with the Conservatives. Born in Soviet Ukraine, Temerko has been a British citizen since 2011
The Conservatives have received more than £3.5 million from Russian funders since 2010. #RussianAsset
New Century Media, which has donated more than £177,000 to the Conservatives over the last decade, previously arranged for Vladimir Putin’s judo partner to meet then-prime minister David Cameron #GeneralElection
Tory fundraising event in 2013. Burnside has also represented Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch close to Putin, who is wanted by the FBI on bribery charges. #GeneralElection#ReleaseTheRussianReport 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
New Century Media has also represented Gerard Lopez. The former Formula One chief who has close business ties with senior figures in Putin’s Russia came under fire from Labour MPs when he donated £400,000 to the Conservatives in 2016. #GeneralElection2019
Another prominent recent Tory donor is the Russian billionaire financier Lev Mikheev. The Moscow-born investment banker, who has donated £212,000 to the Tories
Andrey Borodin had no trouble paying £140 million for Park Place in Henley-on-Thames when he arrived in Britain three years ago, and has since been a regular at Tory fund-raising events. 👇🏼👇🏼#GeneralElection2019
At last year’s summer party, he and his wife sat with @BorisJohnson , and a company registered to Borodin’s address paid £40,000 for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher. With supermodel wife Tatiana, he lives in this vast mansion on the banks of the Thames #RussianAsset
Granted asylum: Andrey Borodin and his supermodel wife Tatiana 😱😱😱😱😱
An oligarch with ambitions to become a British MP, Alexander Temerko donating £474,555 to the Tories, he is a member of the Conservative Leaders’ Group, where members pay £50,000 a year for access to prominent frontbenchers. #GeneralElection2019
Alexander famously paid £90,000 for a bust of Mr Cameron at a Tory fundraising event, while his energy company has been paid at least £4.5 million of taxpayers’ cash through the Department for Business’s Regional Growth Fund. WTF why is this hidden from the public #DontVoteTory
‘I am close to the Conservative Party, I share their views, ideology, I participate in their work,’ he told the Mail. ‘Perhaps after some time, perhaps in ten years, I may be able to become a member of Parliament. Probably. I think so.’ #GeneralElection19#Russia#RussianAsset
@BorisJohnson friend Alexander He, too, has been accused by his former friends in the Kremlin of being leader of a criminal gang involved in fraud against former Soviet state-owned companies — charges a UK court found were politically motivated. #GeneralElection2019#RussianAsset
Born in Moscow, Alexander Knaster is a familiar face on London’s political fund-raising circuit after taking British citizenship in 2009 and donating more than £400,000 to the Tory Party.
George Piskov
Yet another wealthy Russian banker who made a fortune during the so-called ‘wild west years’ following the collapse of communism, Piskov made billions from launching a money transfer service across his vast homeland.
As well as attending Tory Party fundraisers, he has also made a £10,000 donation direct to party headquarters in 2012. You would expect this to have offered him access to influential policy-makers in Parliament here. #generalelections2019#Russia#RussianAsset#ReleaseTheReport
As well as a string of directorships in Russia, which he visits regularly on business, he is also the official representative of all Russian banks in London, making him one of the most powerful financial figures here. #GeneralElection2019
Lev Mikheev
This Russian-born investment banker has donated almost £100,000 to the Tories since moving to the UK. Much of his fortune came through a hedge fund called Salute Capital Management, named after the former Soviet Union’s space exploration programme Salyut #russia
Billionaire Russian oligarch, 51, whose wife played tennis with Boris Johnson appears in court accused of perverting the course of justice “ vladimir chernukhin” #GeneralElection2019
Vladimir Chernukhin, 51, is alleged to have lied in High Court proceedings
He is accused of falsely representing the contents of a declaration of trust
Prosecution is being brought privately by Mr Oleg Deripaska, the claimant in the High Court proceedings #GeneralElection2019
A Russian oligarch whose wife played tennis with @BorisJohnson has appeared in court accused of perverting the course of justice.
Billionaire Vladimir Chernukhin, 51, of Fitzrovia, pictured outside the High Court in February
£160,000 for tennis with Johnson and Cameron
Lubov Chernukhin, the most generous Tory donors in recent months, is a long-standing party supporter who has donated more than £1.2million to the Conservatives since 2014. #GeneralElection2019#RussianAsset
Chernukhin attended the exclusive Black and White Ball for major Tory donors in Battersea Park, where she also paid £135,000 at an auction to have dinner with Theresa May. Chernukhin also gave almost £15,000 to the constituency office of Brandon Lewis MP, #RussianAsset
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I Left Increasingly Right-Wing Britain And Now I Don't Know If I Will Ever Return Home #brexit
There has been a fundamental change and realignment of British politics and political identity, and the country has shifted in a way that I do not recognize. #brexit
London is only 90 minutes away by plane ― two hours if you factor in the time it will take me to get to the airport ― but after watching the results roll in for the U.K. election last week, it has never felt so far away. #brexit
The intrigue over a 'buried' probe into Russian spying deepened last night amid claims in security circles that it contains references to blackmail fears concerning Boris Johnson. #ReleaseTheRussianReport
One expert witness, who gave evidence to the ISC inquiry, has claimed privately to friends that he believes Boris Johnson was 'compromised' by a Russian businessman on a foreign trip in 2016
This is getting crazier 😱 #ReleaseTheRussianReport#GeneralElection2019#GetJohnsonGone