Fact one: During the financial crisis, when all the support through TARP and from the FDIC and the Fed is added up, Citi received nearly half a trillion dollars in bailouts. That’s half a trillion with a “t.” That’s almost $140 billion more than the next biggest bank got.
As a refresher, the story goes that Kraft, along with then-Citigroup president Sandy Weill, media executive Rupert Murdoch, and others, met with Putin in 2005 in an attempt to “stimulate commerce between the United States and Russia.”
"No silly 'reset' buttons. #Realism," he added.
When Clinton held the Secretary of State job during the Obama Administration in 2009, she gave Lavrov the button to demonstrate an openness to a positive relationship going forward.
In 1981, he was sent as a senior adviser to the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City. In 1988, Lavrov returned to Moscow and was named Deputy Chief of the Section of the International Economic Relations of the USSR.
The youngest and most glamorous of Russia's 10 self-confessed spies, Anna Chapman, triggered the FBI swoop when she made an anxious phone call to her father in Moscow saying she was worried that her cover had been blown.
WASHINGTON — Responding to what it described as a hacking campaign by the Russian government to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, the Obama administration kicked dozens of Russian officials out of the country Thursday and closed two properties — including one on
Maryland's Eastern Shore — that the White House said have been used to gather intelligence. Butina then set up a private furniture company, travelling widely abroad and remaining politically active with the youth wing of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. And yet she
attracted praise from opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who spoke of her as a "decent person".
They wanted to arrest her, but they were too busy fainting. Her name is Anna Ketyslina.
The Russian spies held large posters of Anna Chapman and Anna Fermanova, “They were unfairly
treated. They hadn’t finished gathering their top-secret government secrets yet. We want them back,”
All seven of the Russian oil and gas firms on the Global 2000 have moved up the ranks this year. Gazprom is Russia’s largest. It’s ranked as the 40th largest corporation in the world, up from 43 the previous year.
Rosneft, the Russian oil and gas company run top-down by Igor Sechin, a man referred to behind the scenes as Darth Vader in Moscow, is now the world’s 52nd largest corporation, up from 73 in 2017.
Nord Stream 2 is being built by Nord Stream 2 AG, a consortium incorporated in Switzerland. Its chairman of the board of directors is Gerhard Schröder, German chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and the subject of fierce criticism for his ties to Russia. Since 2017, Schröder serves as
the chairman of Russian energy company Rosneft. He is currently the chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG and of Rosneft, after having been hired as a global manager by investment bank Rothschild
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Feinstein — who was Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time — was reportedly mortified when the FBI told her she’d been infiltrated.
SAN FRANCISCO—In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings.
In 1974, the students of Nishtar Medical College had an altercation with Ahmadis at the Rabwah Railway Station. This event turned into a massive and violent anti-Ahmadiyya riot resulting in many casualties among en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Anti…
Ahmadis and destruction to Ahmadiyya property. During the extremist Islamism of Zia-ul-Haq, a more strict anti-Ahmadiyya law was passed known as Ordinance XX. Ahmadi life became more persecuted and strict.
This law does not allow Ahmadi Muslims to call themselves Muslim or
to "pose as Muslims", which are crimes punishable by three years in prison. This Ordinance and the 1974 amendment in the constitution effectively gave the state of Pakistan, the exclusive right to determine the meaning of the term "Muslim". After the formation of Pakistan on
Nearly a century ago, in 1913, the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City almost single-handedly created American tropical medicine research. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Simultaneous funding for The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, new institutions of public health at Johns Hopkins and Harvard University, and overseas research and educational institutions in Brazil and China further created an infrastructure by which American
tropical disease research and development was supported and sustained. In an extraordinary two-year burst of activity, vast amounts of new private and federal funds were infused into what the late Kenneth Warren of the Rockefeller Foundation often referred to as ‘the great
Trump also granted clemency to Michael Flynn and Lil Wayne.
The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives, who is wanted in Beijing on fraud, blackmail and bribery charges, according to the Washington Post.
All ambassadors and high commissioners from the United Kingdom are formally accredited from the court—not the United Kingdom—as they are representatives of the Crown.[1]
Master of the Ceremonies), who acts as the link between the British monarch and foreign diplomatic missions, is permanently based at St James's Palace. The office was created as recently as 1920 to replace the former Master of the Ceremonies, an office dating from c.1620. Before
1920, the Vice-Marshal was known as the Marshal of the Ceremonies.[2]
The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps is, along with the Queen's Equerry, expected to walk backwards discreetly when leaving the presence of the monarch.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Wikipedia
BCCI's founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, established the bank in 1972. Abedi, a prolific banker, had previously set up the United Bank Limited in Pakistan in 1959 sponsored by Saigols. Preceding the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_C…
nationalization of the United Bank in 1974, he sought to create a new supranational banking entity. BCCI was created with capital of which 25% was from the Bank of America and the remaining 75% from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab
Emirates. In 1991, Robert Mueller declared the government had been investigating BCCI since 1986 resulting in intense media coverage.[22]
In 1992, United States Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown became the co-authors of a report on BCCI, which was delivered to the Committee