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Tamsin Shaw Profile picture
@ProfessorShaw
Jun 24, 2021 • 25 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
OK. Let's start a thread listing all the senior British politicians who are reported* to be in business with Russian oligarchs. Feel free to add links. I'll start...
@lukeharding1968 @peterjukes @carolecadwalla @tomburgis @WendySiegelman @DrJBPhillips

*legal disclaimer...
Michael Howard is chair of Soma Oil and Gas, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Djaparidze.
wsj.com/articles/repor…
Lord Asquith (once MI6 station commander in Moscow who drove Gordievsky over the border) is now company director of the Ukrainian corporation owned by Dmytro Firtash
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_A…
Jacob Rees-Mogg's firm has a 60m GBP stake in Sberbank. I'm sure others can add more color to this story...
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Lord Lebedev... well, OK, enough said...
Lord Barker and Lord Browne quit the Lords, but didn't give up their influence in the British establishment
thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-b…
Anyone want to unpack Peter Mandelson's business links (touched on here in the paper owned by former-KGB Alexander Lebedev and his son, Lord Lebedev)?
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Very helpful overview by @lukeharding1968
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…
Lord Skidelsky (supporter of Jeremy Corbyn)" who is non-executive director of the Russian oil refining company Russneft. Until June 2017 he was also a non-executive director of Rusnano Capital, a subsidiary of a Russian state investment vehicle." thetimes.co.uk/article/new-co…
Just to show that the entire political spectrum is implicated in the UK - Lord Owen goes way back with Usmanov: thetimes.co.uk/article/owen-p…
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/14/tip…
Indispensable sub-thread:
nfind.uk/bristol_news/?…
Another essential sub-thread:
More Labour links (this is a bipartisan issue in the UK)
"One Westminster figure openly enthusiastic about Russia’s takeover of Crimea is Lord Truscott, a former Labour peer who nominated Mr Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize last year because of his actions over Syria."
And we'd forgotten to mention Labour peer Lord Myners who is on the board of OJSC MegaFon, a London-listed company that is one of the three largest mobile operators in Russia
Of course we mustn't forget all the British politicians who've boosted their popularity with paid appearances on RT (Russian propaganda channel broadcast in the UK) including Nigel Farage, George Galloway, and Jeremy Corbyn. thetimes.co.uk/article/moscow…
Former Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside set up a lobbying firm called New Century Media which represnets Firtash and other Russian oligarchs. Maybe someone can fill in details?

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May 6, 2024
Certain institutions are keystones of liberal democracy: i.e. they couldn't exist without it; it couldn't exist without them. A free press is one of them. The idea that "independence" means being neutral between democracy and the alternatives is pure nonsense. 1/n
We used to laugh about the idea that liberals are people who can't defend themselves in an argument. But now we're actually seeing it. If the free press won't actively sustain the conditions of their existence or their purpose for existing, what do they think they're doing? 2/n
Just like elections, the rule of law, the justice system, checks and balances in government, the free press is CONSTITUTIVE of liberal democracy. Of course it should be their priority to defend that above all else, regardless of what opinion polls say people want to hear. 3/n
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Jan 16, 2023
Apart from being biased and simplistic ("the specter of “Russian bots” wreaking havoc across the web has become a byword of liberal anxiety and a go-to explanation for Democrats flummoxed by Trump’s unlikely victory"), this piece is very misleading. 1/5

theintercept.com/2023/01/10/rus…
Twitter is indirectly conflated with "social media," with the exception of a mild qualification at the end. And there's no mention of tweets from the Russians' avatars being quoted and amplified by the mainstream media, reaching audiences of millions. But in any case
the social media efforts on behalf of Trump in 2016 were highly targeted. That's why the voter data matters (google Manafort Kilimnik). They were targeting specific demographics in order to suppress voting. So the idea
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Dec 16, 2022
"Also present were Bezos; Musk; Brin; Salar Kamangar, then CEO of YouTube; Mayer, who the following year left Google to become CEO of Yahoo; and Anne Wojcicki, Brin’s then-wife and CEO of genetic testing startup 23andMe." Huh. Didn't know that about 23andMe...
But I'm sure all of our genetic data is entirely safe
even if there are a few Russian and Chinese investors with access to the company's black box...
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Oct 5, 2022
Thread (please RT)

Kushner arranged the sale of US nuclear company Westinghouse to Brookfield Business Partners. Another Brookfield subsidiary, Brookfield Property Partners, bailed him out of his 666 5th Ave deal. Both are registered in Bermuda and their ownership is opaque.
But we do know George Myhal, Ukrainian-Canadian executive and central figure in the rise of Brookfield, established a subsidiary called Partners Value Investments LP that has investments in both BBU and BPY.
reuters.com/markets/compan…
In 2018, the year of the Westinghouse deal, he simultaneously took the lead in a Brookfield and Partners investment in a large new IT park in Lviv, investing alongside Okko Holdings, a group that includes Kremlin vehicle Renaissance Capital.
windermereic.com/news-and-updat…
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May 18, 2022
You all remember the 2016 Trump-Alfa server mystery, right? Durham (Trump's special counsel who's looking into whether the Dems hoodwinked the FBI with it) just began his first court case.

So a little reminder. The whole matter is way more weird than many people realize. 1/14
Several computer scientists thought the DNS data looked unusual and possibly indicative of data transfers, without specifying by whom, to whom, or what the data was - but it seemed worth investigating. None have retracted their views. Anyway the FBI didn't investigate... 2/14
because as we now know from the current court case: ""[The FBI's] Hellman said it took him and another agent less than a day to ascertain the data and “white papers” on two thumb drives ...did not support the Trump-Alfa Bank “secret connection” allegation." " 3/14
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Mar 24, 2022
I did try telling people that Russia was deeply interested in nuclear energy reactors - not just in the US either. We don't even know who owns Westinghouse, the biggest US nuclear company, after Kushner arranged the sale to a shell company without proper CFIUS review? 1/3
I was wrong that Kestenbaum was the registered owner but we do now have documentary proof that he did business through Brookfield Business Partners. That's not a reassuring link. 2/3
justsecurity.org/73422/trumps-i…
And the behavior of Westinghouse since the sale closely tracks Russian interests, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO UKRAINE but also neighboring countries. I really hope someone investigates this.
@JakeSullivan46 @FrankFigliuzzi1 @john_sipher @harrylitman
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