There’s a new report out today that suggests that Joe Biden might be blocking his administration from sanctioning two Russian billionaires because they did business with he and his son.
The New York Post is reporting that these two Russian billionaires, Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yelena Baturina, have been sanctioned by the UK and Australia over the Ukraine war but not by the US.
“I think it’s very fishy,” said one source who had firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov — who is sanctioned by the UK and Australia but not by the US.
“I think he should be sanctioned,” Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, told The Post of Yevtushenkov — estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.7 billion. “I don’t understand why he has not been.”
There’s a lot of details in the Post’s report on these two Russian billionaires, but I’ll see if I can break it down for you.
With respect to both billionaires, the Post isn’t just relying on emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop. They actually have sources who saw these dinner meetings take place.
First up is Vladimir Yevtushenkov who met with Hunter Biden in 2012 to discuss buying real estate in the US and actually said that he was hoping for a quid pro quo with the Vice President.
Yevtushenkov, whose Sistema business empire until recently included Russian rocket and radar-maker RTI and drone-maker Kronstadt, admitted last year he met with Hunter Biden for breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan on March 14, 2012 — but denied any further contact.
However, emails and calendar entries from Hunter’s former laptop show that they were set to meet again on Jan. 27, 2013, for dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano before looking at a commercial real estate development the next day near Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.
“I asked [Yevtushenkov], ‘Why are you doing this?’ on the front end — before I understood that they were going to buy some real estate,” the source told The Post. “‘Why are you even doing this? Why would you be paying the son of the vice president to meet at a public restaurant in New York City?’
“He made it very clear to me that, you know … ‘I think it would be good to have a good relationship with this guy … maybe he can do a favor for us and we can do a favor for him,’” the source continued. “It was a complete quid pro quo that he was going in for.”
“I told him that’s not the way it works in America, [but] he basically laughed at me and told me I was so naïve,” the source recalled of Yevtushenkov…
Next up is Yelena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow who sent Hunter Biden’s company a $3.5 million dollar check in 2014. We’ve also written about how she invested $40 million into a business venture involving Hunter’s company in 2012.
Here’s what the post has to say about her meeting with both Hunter and daddy Joe as well as several others including a Burisma executive:
A different source, meanwhile, told The Post he vividly recalled Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, looking “like an odd couple” at a now-infamous, intimate dinner with Hunter and his father, the then-vice president.
It’s long been uncertain whether Baturina, estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.4 billion, and Luzhkov actually attended the April 16, 2015 dinner at Cafe Milano — the same Georgetown restaurant where Hunter and Yevtushenkov set a date more than two years prior.
“It was an odd dinner because there was [then-Kazakhstani Prime Minister Karim] Massimov, Luzhkov and his wife, and it was not a big table and then there was somebody there from some food charity making a pitch for support,” they added. “I mean, it was, was — it was a little odd, the whole thing.”
In an email at the time, Hunter wrote that the meal would be “ostensibly” about his role a chairman of the World Food Program (WFP) USA.
His father, the sitting vice president, arrived at the dinner and stayed for about 40 minutes, the second source told The Post, even sitting down to eat and then posing for a photo with the Kazakhstani group.
The gathering also featured Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid Hunter up to $1 million per year beginning in 2014 while his VP dad controlled the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Pozharskyi emailed Hunter the next day to thank him for “giving an opportunity to meet your father” — forming the basis of The Post’s first October 2020 bombshell from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Joe Biden called the report a false “Russian plant” at the time and social media platforms Twitter and Facebook initially censored it.
If the New York Post has sources that verify these meetings with Joe Biden and his son Hunter, then you know others in the media could do the same. Especially considering the Biden administration is so far refusing to sanction these two Russian billionaires who had business dealings with the Biden crime family.
It’s a ready made scandal, but they aren’t interested in investigating Joe Biden because he’s on their side, their team. They’d only be interested in this if it were Trump and his son. Then they’d be all over it like white on rice. That’s why they’ve earned the title ‘garbage media’.