In January 2016, Konstantin Nikolaev, his wife Svetlana Nikolaeva and Maria Butina attended the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.

During the Russian war against Ukraine, the Tula Cartridge Plant, which Nikolaev along with Igor Rotenberg are co-owners since a 2 February 2017 announcement, has supplied very large amounts of ammunition to support Russian forces.

Nikolaev is a major investor in a satellite imagery company that supplies classified imagery intelligence to the Russian government which received its license for classified intelligence from the FSB

The Russian billionaire businessman who is a co-owner of Globaltrans, the largest private rail operator in Russia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Nikolaev

In July 2018, while residing in Washington, D.C., Butina was arrested by the FBI and charged with acting as an agent of the Russian Federation after serving time in an American prison she was deported back to Russia.

The Senate Intelligence Committee later concluded that she attempted to persuade the Trump campaign to establish a secret communications back channel with Russia.

In 2021, she was elected to the State Duma as a member of United Russia.

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