STREAMING LIVE NOW: ‘Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations’ hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The latest on KI’s website: How Iran managed to buy a Manhattan skyscraper using anonymous companies based in the U.S. – and why there is nothing stopping it from doing so again.
News
The House passed new sanctions that would punish Russia, after the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Moscow had sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Features
The FACT Coalitions has a cheatsheet on the business case for ending anonymous companies.
How the family of Vladimir Putin’s U.S.-sanctioned ally uses British companies to burnish its reputation.
Text of Bill Browder’s soon-to-be testimony to the Senate Judiciary Hearing, along with contextual analysis by The Atlantic, can be found here.
Karen Dawisha’s latest piece on how Russia is outsourcing democratic institutions via globalization.
“The arrangement suited everybody: American real estate magnates, suddenly rich Russian oligarchs, the construction industry and many others. But underneath this boom there was a grim truth: An important chunk of the money that pumped up the New York luxury real estate market over the past two decades was money originally siphoned off from the Russian state.”
-Anne Applebaum’s latest in WaPo
