One of the more interesting figures who met with Trump at the White House Crypto Summit is... FIFA President...
Gianni Infantino: (Article from November 2016): en.kremlin.ru/events/preside… Then this from July, 2018: "How the Pee Tape Explains the World Cup" huffpost.com/entry/fifa-wor…

H/T @WendySiegelman One of the speakers at the upcoming Blockchain Forum in Moscow--and thus a speaker who is explicitly endorsing Putin's brutal aggression--is this guy: Akshat Vaidya As you can see, the Forum is not providing any bio information about Vaidya, other than his listing as a key player in something called Maelstrom.Fund

Checking in on Firtash’s decades-long associate/proxy, Anthony Fisher: He’s listed here at Linkilaw Solicitors (London) linkilawsolicitors.com/our-team/

Who is Joachim Hagopian? When I first came across his name on a Russian website, I thought surely this is a pen name. But, no, that’s his name. I’ll get back to that particular Russian website in a few moments… First, though, a wee bit of background. In 1972, owing to 107 demerits, West Point separated him (or tried to) from the academy: law.justia.com/cases/federal/…

To the extent that RU adequately planned the extension of aggression vs. Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022—an open question—they were (and this is known) counting on the aid of Russian mafia figures who lived in places like the key port city of Odesa. One of those figures, and quite a prominent one at that, was Vladimir Galanternik. I’ve tweeted about him before. Find the references here: twitter.com/search?q=%40tw…