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Viktor Vekselberg, the Glossary

Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (born April 14, 1957) is a Russian oligarch, billionaire, and businessman.^[1]

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.

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Airbus A319

The Airbus A319 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus.

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Alexei Navalny

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; 4 June 197616 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner.

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Andrew Intrater

Andrew Lewis Intrater (born 1962) is an American capital investor.

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Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it.

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Asset forfeiture

Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities.

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Asset freezing

Asset freezing is a form of interim or interlocutory injunction which prevents a defendant to an action from dealing with or dissipating its assets so as to frustrate a potential judgment.

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Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council is an American think tank in the field of international affairs, favoring Atlanticism, founded in 1961.

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Bank fraud is the use of potentially illegal means to obtain money, assets, or other property owned or held by a financial institution, or to obtain money from depositors by fraudulently posing as a bank or other financial institution.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Boris Kustodiev

Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (Борис Михайлович Кустодиев; – 28 May 1927) was a Russian and later Soviet painter and stage designer.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Chancellor House (company)

Chancellor House is a South African holding company managing investments in the mining, engineering, energy and information technology sectors.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.

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Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Civil Guard (Spain)

The Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain.

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Clinton Foundation

The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code.

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Collusion

Collusion is a deceitful agreement or secret cooperation between two or more parties to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading or defrauding others of their legal right.

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Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act

The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) is a United States federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Danilov Monastery

Danilov Monastery (also Svyato-Danilov Monastery or Holy Danilov Monastery; Danilov monastyr', Svyato-Danilov monastyr') is a walled monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow.

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Decoration "For Beneficence"

The Decoration "For Beneficence" (Знак отличия «За благодеяние») is a decoration of Russia, established on 3 May 2012 by decree of President Dmitry Medvedev.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Drohobych

Drohobych (Дрогобич,; Drohobycz; drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik (Ragusa; see notes on naming) is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea.

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Edward Mermelstein

Edward Alexander Mermelstein (born October 22, 1967) is New York City’s Commissioner for International Affairs.

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Fabergé egg

A Fabergé egg (yaytso Faberzhe) is a jewelled egg created by the jewellery firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg

The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg (Музей Фаберже в Санкт-Петербурге) is a privately owned museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fisher Island, Florida

Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Forbes family (publishers)

The Forbes family includes a number of related people that founded, and have worked for, Forbes magazine.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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History of the Jews in Ukraine

The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century).

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International Emergency Economic Powers Act

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Title II of, is a United States federal law authorizing the president to regulate international commerce after declaring a national emergency in response to any unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States.

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International sanctions

International sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states or organizations either to protect national security interests, or to protect international law, and defend against threats to international peace and security.

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Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened in Moscow in November 2012.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Kovykta field

The Kovykta gas condensate field is one of the largest undeveloped natural gas fields in Eastern Siberia, Russia.

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Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.

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Lady R incident

The Lady R incident, also known as #LadyRussiagate, refers to the docking of the sanctioned Russian cargo ship Lady R at Simon's Town Naval Base in South Africa in December 2022 and the resulting diplomatic impact.

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Lowell House

Lowell House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located at 10 Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Meduza

Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

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Michael McFaul

Michael Anthony McFaul (born October 1, 1963) is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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Mueller special counsel investigation

The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019.

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Office of Foreign Assets Control

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U.S. Treasury Department.

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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"

The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством», Orden "Za zaslugi pered Otechestvom") is a state decoration of the Russian Federation.

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Order of Alexander Nevsky

The Order of Alexander Nevsky (orden Alexandra Nevskogo) is an order of merit of the Russian Federation named in honour of saint Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) and bestowed to civil servants for twenty years or more of highly meritorious service.

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PURE Insurance

Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) is an American property insurance company established in 2006.

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Renova Group

Renova Group is a Russian conglomerate with interests in aluminium, oil, energy, telecoms and a variety of other sectors.

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Robert Mueller

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Russian oligarchs

Russian oligarchs (oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), a lobby group based in Moscow, promotes the interests of business in Russia.

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Russian University of Transport

The Russian University of Transport (RUT (MIIT); «Российский университет транспорта», РУТ (МИИТ)), officially the Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian University of transport" (Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Российский университет транспорта") is a public university founded in 1896 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat who has served as the foreign minister of Russia since 2004. Viktor Vekselberg and Sergey Lavrov are full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", Russian individuals subject to European Union sanctions, Russian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions and Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions.

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SUAL Group

Siberian-Urals Aluminium Company (Сибирско-Уральская Алюминиевая Компания), commonly known as SUAL (СУАЛ), is a fully vertically integrated aluminium company that ranks amongst the world's top ten aluminium producers.

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

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Task Force KleptoCapture

Task Force KleptoCapture is a United States Department of Justice unit established in March 2022 with the goal of enforcing sanctions on Russian oligarchs in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.

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United States Deputy Attorney General

The United States deputy attorney general is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day operation of the department.

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United States District Court for the District of Columbia

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.

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Yacht

A yacht is a sail- or motor-propelled watercraft used for pleasure, cruising, or racing.

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Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions

The Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions is an international group of independent experts working on the implementation of sanctions against Russia and Belarus as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg

Also known as Vekselberg, Victor Vekselberg, Виктор Вексельберг.

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See also

Naturalized citizens of Cyprus

Russian art collectors

Russian businesspeople in Cyprus

Russian businesspeople in Israel

Russian businesspeople in the oil industry

Russian engineers

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