Russiagate

English Etymology From en Russia gate. Proper noun A scandal in the late 1990s in which billions of dollars were laundered out of Russia by the bureaucracy of president Boris Yeltsin with the assistance of Western banks such as the Bank of New York. en 2013 Ronen Palan; Richard Murphy; Christian Chavagneux Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works 74 Nauru, a small Pacific atoll, was involved in the largest money laundering case in history, the so-called Russiagate scandal of the late 1990s, which involved the Bank of New York. en US politics informal The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the US presidential election in 2016 regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials. en https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/30/fiona-hill-russia-trump-adviser-228758/ The Russia Hawk in the White House September 30, 2019 Natasha Bertrand POLITICO Magazine Her [Fiona Hill's] time as special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian Affairs, a role that put her at the center of domestic and geopolitical intrigue, follows the arc of the Russiagate scandal that dogged Trump’s presidency almost from its inception. https://web.archive.org/web/20260410144041/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/30/fiona-hill-russia-trump-adviser-228758/ 10 April 2026 Derived terms en Russiagater