On Friday, Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev lost his libel battle against ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele whose 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump implicated him in hacking the Democrats in 2016. In Cyprus, was told by her acquaintances she was 'intelligent and professional', a woman who always looked 'well-polished', although she is now believed to have moved back to Russia. In a varied career she was also a PR executive for Russia's environmental and nuclear watchdog Rostekhnadzor, which she left in 2011, around the time she moved to Cyprus. Galkina attracts startlingly different descriptions in her homeland. More than a decade ago she also worked for Rosbalt, a news outlet run by Natalya Cherkesova (Chaplina), wife of ex-security services high-ranking member Viktor Cherkesov, a Putin associate. She worked as a journalist for state-funded RIA Novosti, working at the Russian parliament between 2003-05. This is the thing… The story is that we were friends. 'And we haven't seen each other for a long time. 'We studied at the same school, but the thing is that after that he went to work and study in America,' she said. However, she did admit to knowing her former school friend Igor Danchenko, 42, who the WSJ claimed had recruited her into intelligence gathering for the former MI6 spy. She claimed the allegations that she was a Steele source were 'not true', but gave little detail. The infamous dossier also contained salacious information about Trump's alleged conduct in a Moscow hotel room during the Miss Universe pageant She used her former state-owned media employer RIA Novosti to say in a statement: 'My mood is rather low because I did not expect this story at all and, of course, it complicated (my life) quite a lot.' Now, shown in exclusive pictures obtained by, Galkina came forward on Friday to deny claims she was a key source in the Steele dossier. Olga Galkina, 40, was linked to the dossier this week and was described by The Wall Street Journal as a 'disgruntled PR executive' living in Cyprus.Īnd while some people who know Galkina claim she's maverick who was unlikely to have access to secrets, others suggested she was well-connected. Steele's infamous report was leaked weeks before Trump's inauguration, alleging Russian influence over him and contained salacious information about his reported conduct in a Moscow hotel room during the Miss Universe pageant. Published: 20:00 BST, 30 October 2020 | Updated: 21:26 BST, 30 October 2020Ī Russian woman identified as a key source in the dossier by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele dossier is a former employee of Kremlin-owned state media. Two foreign news outlets said she was behind a personal blog that boasted of nudity and palm reading, however there was no clear proofīy Will Stewart In Moscow For.Galkina was linked to the dossier this week and was described by The Wall Street Journal as a 'disgruntled PR executive' living in Cyprus.She claimed the allegations that she was a Steele source were 'not true', but gave little more detail.She said: 'My mood is rather low because I did not expect this story at all and, of course, it complicated (my life) quite a lot'.On Friday, she used her former state-owned media employer RIA Novosti on Friday to deny claims she was a key source in Steele's report.She is pictured for the first time in exclusive pictures obtained by.Galkina, 40, is a former employee of Kremlin-owned state media.
His report alleged Russian influence over Trump and contained salacious information about his reported conduct in a Moscow hotel room.Olga Galkina, from Russia, was identified as a key source in the dossier by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele.EXCLUSIVE: Russian woman who was identified as key source in Trump's 'golden shower' dossier denies links to the infamous report, as she's pictured for the first time
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