More on Branden and Natalia Spikes' Russian connections: Natalia's groups overlapped w/ U.S.-Russia Chamber of Commerce. The group's president was Piotr Galitzine (seen below in Natalia's pic) - also the CEO of Russian steel company TMK IPSCO. On TMK's board--Alexander Shokhin and Anatoly Chubais./ - ThreadSky

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More on Branden and Natalia Spikes' Russian connections: Natalia's groups overlapped w/ U.S.-Russia Chamber of Commerce. The group's president was Piotr Galitzine (seen below in Natalia's pic) - also the CEO of Russian steel company TMK IPSCO. On TMK's board--Alexander Shokhin and Anatoly Chubais./

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ukrainianalex.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Great journalism, Jacqueline! Thank you

epremo.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Nothing surprises me, except the Republicans rolling over. We knew this about him the first term!

jsweetli.bsky.social•22 hours ago

More about TMK IPSCO and its ties to Putin:

https://www.desmog.com/2017/02/28/trump-american-steel-russia-putin-fracking/

jsweetli.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Piotr Galitzine is a Russian Orthodox aristocrat and his wife is Archduchess Maria-Anna of Austria, a Hapsburg. In 2011, she served on the VIP Host Committee of the Moscow Demographic Summit, sponsored by the World Congress of Families.

https://globalextremism.org/post/russian-representative-of-the-american-anti-lgbtq-indicted/

jsweetli.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Here is Branden Spikes with a board member of the US-Russia Chamber of Congress, who also cohosted events with Natalia in California. B and N Spikes attended the group's Russia Day 2011 celebration day in Chicago, where Natalia poses with then -ambassador Sergey Kislyak.