During the presidential campaign, Michael D. Cohen and Felix Sater, an associate with a criminal past, pursued a new Trump Tower project with a former spymaster’s help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-russia-felix-sater-michael-cohen.html
In 2016, when his company was negotiating a potential deal in Moscow, Donald J. Trump suggested that there was no need for the United States to penalize Russia over Crimea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-cohen-russia-sanctions.html
https://www.ft.com/content/763b2eb2-f2f4-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/29Nov2018/ft/japan.html
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/11/29/78738-holostoy-hod
http://www.dsnews.ua/world/putiny-deti-28112018220000
https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-46383327
https://republic.ru/posts/92565