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"Donald the Red": "the full story about Trump and Russia has yet to be told", “there’s a lot we don’t know...” - Trump's Russian connections - FT | "I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. I have no businesses, I have no loans from Russia." - Trump

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Trump's Russian connections Sunday October 16 th , 2016  at  9:42 AM US News - Today, October 16th 9:19am Shared by  1  person The soviet years and yeltsin’s 'wild east' The Republican candidate’s links to Russia are a mix of  bling, business and bluster  spanning 30 years. The FT has compiled this account from a variety of sources, tracing Trump's fascination for Russia from its beginnings in Soviet times, through the Putin era to the US presidential campaign. Yuri Dubinin A first contact from Moscow In 1986 Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin sat next to Donald Trump at a New York lunch and they talked about Trump Tower. “One thing led to another, and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government,” the tycoon recalled in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal. Trump flew to Moscow at Dubinin’s invitation to discuss the