Russiagate English

Meaning Russiagate meaning

What does Russiagate mean?

Russiagate properNoun

— A late 1990s scandal 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.

— (US politics, informal) The controversy that ensued since the 2016 US presidential election about purported links between Russian actors and Donald Trump, his campaign and his subsequent administration.