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In 1991,resigned the KGB to enter politics, also that year, in accordance with the Grand Orient de France license, the first new masonic lodge was established in Moscow. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the President of the USSR, declaring the office extinct. The following day, the Supreme Soviet, the highest governmental body of the Soviet Union, voted both itself and the Soviet Union out of existence.
The Grand Lodge of Russia was established in 1995 and since then has opened almost 50 lodges. Russia's current Grand Master is politician Andrei Bogdanov, who in 2008 ran for the Russian presidency.
Donald Trump bought the Miss Universe pageant in 1996 from ITT Corp. Trump struck a broadcasting arrangement with CBS until 2002. In 1998, Miss Universe, Inc. changed its name to Miss Universe Organization, and moved its headquarters from Los Angeles to New York City
In the United States - RT (Russian Television) English-language news channel was launched in 2005. Ron Paul 2008 for president - audit the fed, and isolationist platform is supported by RT. The developing "Alt Right" movement, and new conprracy sites , are supported by Russinan propaganda efforts.
Russia's Grand Master, Bogdanov entered the race for the mayorship of Sochi on 25 March 2009. However, he withdrew from the election on 13 April 2009, urging his supporters to vote instead for acting mayor Anatoly Pakhomov, the government-backed pro-Putin candidate.
In 2014 Bogdanov became the leader of the Communist Party of Social Justice. He had previously been the leader of the Democratic party, whose current leadership team also includes Bogdanov's son, Timur Bogdanov, according to the party's website. In September 2017, Bogdanov declared his intention to participate in the 2018 Presidential Election, but his candidature was cancelled after he failed to submit the necessary registration papers to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.
Putin was a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before resigning in 1991 to enter politics in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned.
During Putin's first presidency (2000), the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured in purchasing power increased by 72%. The growth was a result of the 2000s commodities boom, or the commodities super cycle. This was the rise, and fall, of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals, fuels and the like) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s. The boom was largely due to the rising demand from emerging markets such as the BRIC countries, particularly China during the period from 1992 to 2013,[2] as well as the result of concerns over long-term supply.
Although the United States is the worlds largest oil producer, we still import a great deal of oil. Russia was the 6th most important supplier of U.S. crude oil in 2017. The U.S. reliance on foreign crude in 2017 was higher for imports from Canada (39.9%), Saudi Arabia (9.4%), Mexico (6.8%), Venezuela (6.7%), and Iraq (6.0%).
Putin suggests Russia and US could work together to regulate oil prices
“I think that we as a major oil and gas power, and the United States as a major oil and gas power as well, we could work together on regulation of international markets, because neither of us is actually interested in the plummeting of the prices,” Putin said. “But nor are we interested in driving prices up because it will drain a lot of juices from all other sectors of the economy, so we do have space for cooperation here,” he said.
2011 Exxon Mobil and Rosneft, a state-run oil company, had agreed on a $3.2 billion joint exploration pact.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia visiting a Rosneft refinery on the Black Sea in 2013.
In November 2013, Donald Trump Tweeted about his Russian hosts, from the Miss Universe pageant in Russia, “You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”
After Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the United States and its European allies applied several sanctions on Moscow, eventually freezing Exxon’s investments.
January 20 2016 Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.
Rex Wayne Tillerson, Exxon executive, was the United States Secretary of State from February 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, under President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration said in January 2018 it would not immediately impose additional sanctions on Russia, despite a new law designed to punish Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, insisting the measure was already hitting Russian companies.
President Donald Trump's first trip abroad. Met with King Salman and Muslim leaders at the Riyadh Summit.[1] Signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia,[2] and was honored with the Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud, his first foreign order.
“There is no final decision on volumes, but together with Saudi Arabia we will do it,” Putin told reporters about extending the agreement in Buenos Aires. “And whatever number there will be based on this joint decision, we agreed that we will monitor the market situation and react to it quickly.”
Putin gives a bro-five to Mohammed bin Salman. | The New Republic
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