Why did Aras and Emin Agalarov spend $20 million on Miss Universe
13.11.2013. .. nibble ..
Forbes: Do you plan any joint projects with Donald Trump, may be construction ones?
A. A.: We discussed our joint projects right before our interview. We have just shared our views on such projects and he said they were quite interesting.
E. A.: We will complete one project and then go down to the next one. We may theoretically consider a possibility of building a Trump Tower as one of our sky-scrapers.
Aras Agalarov: building fashionable extravagance for the super-rich
By Will Stewart in Moscow 12:01AM GMT 30 Mar 2008 .. bit ..
Scottish baronial mansions, grand Mediterranean-style villas and vast, neo-Gothic castles are rising above the soaring pines just outside Moscow, where a community for Russia's super-rich is nearing completion.
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Mr Agalarov, who has an eye for business on a grand scale and has been described as the Russian equivalent of Donald Trump, told The Sunday Telegraph: "There are a considerable number of people who want to buy the houses. Naturally, I can't give you any names. Prices are between £7.5 million and £12.5 million. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1583335/Russia-builds-luxury-Agalarov-Estate.html
Just to add a tiny more insight into two of Trump's Russian friends, the Aras and Emin Agalarov father and son team.
Repeat again The Washington Post article you posted here
How Vladimir Putin Is Using Donald Trump to Advance Russia's Goals
"Donald Trump and Russia: a web that grows more tangled all the time"
By Owen Matthews On 8/29/16 at 7:00 AM
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“The target of the hacks wasn’t just Clinton,” Eerik-Niiles Kross, the former head of Estonian intelligence, wrote in a recent essay in Politico .. http://www.politico.eu/article/america-welcome-to-the-war-russia-hack-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-democrats-emails/ . “Nor is Moscow much interested in supporting Trump (willing useful idiot though he may be). What the Russians have in their sights is nothing less than the democratic fabric of American society and the integrity of the system of Western liberal values…. The political warfare of the Cold War is back—in updated form, with meaner, more modern tools, including a vast state media empire in Western languages, hackers, spies, agents, useful idiots, compatriot groups, and hordes of internet trolls.”
In other words, Trump is merely a useful stooge in the Kremlin’s grand design to encourage NATO disunity, U.S. isolationism and the breakup of Europe. In practice, all the effort of Russian-sponsored hackers, think tankers and propaganda channels is unlikely to have much real effect and on balance have probably harmed Trump’s chances of getting into the White House. But the effort is real. As Kross put it, “Russia is effectively using our democracies and our systems of rule of law against us…. America, welcome to the war.”
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