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| July 2025 | CIA director John Ratcliffe released an internal review of the 2016 intelligence assessment, criticizing its process but affirming its core finding that Russia intended to undermine American democracy and disparage Hillary Clinton. |
| 2023 | New York University (NYU) study published, finding that Russian Twitter trolls had no measurable impact on the election. |
| December 2023 | CNN reported that an unredacted binder containing documents related to the FBI's Russia investigation went missing during the final days of Donald Trump's presidency, with multiple redacted copies remaining in the Justice Department and National Archives. |
| January 30 2023 | Jeff Gerth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, published a 4-part series in the Columbia Journalism Review critically examining the press's coverage of Trump's role in Russian election interference, highlighting what he described as 'serious flaws' in the media reporting. |
| 2022 | A Columbia University study examined changes in election betting markets around Russian holidays, suggesting potential interference patterns. |
| November 2022 | Prigozhin publicly admitted to Russian interference in U.S. elections, stating they have interfered, are interfering, and will continue to interfere. |
| November 17 2022 | Jesse Benton, a Republican political operative, was convicted by a federal jury for a 2016 scheme to funnel Russian money to the Donald Trump campaign, specifically causing a Russian foreign national to wire $100,000 to his consulting firm, with $25,000 contributed to the Trump campaign. |
| October 2022 | The New York Times reported that Trump retained secret government documents, allegedly intending to trade them for files supporting his claim that Russian election interference was a 'hoax'. |
| September 2022 | Prigozhin admitted to funding the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group. |
| July 2022 | The State Department offered a $10 million reward for information on Prigozhin and the Internet Research Agency related to Russian election interference mechanisms. |
| 2021 | Prigozhin was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list. |
| 2020 | The Justice Department dismissed indictments against Prigozhin's catering firm Concord to prevent potential exposure of law enforcement techniques. |
| December 2020 | Papadopoulos was pardoned by President Trump. |
| December 23 2020 | U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Paul Manafort. |
| December 8 2020 | Flynn's legal case was ultimately dismissed as moot following his presidential pardon. |
| November 25 2020 | President Trump pardoned Michael Flynn. |
| November 2 2020 | The Special Counsel's office released previously redacted portions of the Mueller report, following a federal judge's order in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by BuzzFeed News and Electronic Privacy Information Center. |
| September 2020 | A federal judge ordered the disclosure of previously redacted passages from the Mueller report, while allowing some portions to remain redacted. |
| August 17 2020 | Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee released the fifth and final volume of their 996-page report, concluding that the Russian government conducted an extensive campaign to sabotage the election in favor of Trump, involving some of Trump's advisers. |
| May 2020 | The Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the charge against Flynn with prejudice. |
| May 13 2020 | Manafort was released to home confinement due to the threat of COVID-19. |
| April 21 2020 | Senate Intelligence Committee released a unanimous, heavily redacted report reviewing the January 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian interference, affirming Putin's direct involvement in election manipulation. |
| December 2019 | Switzerland extradited Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin to the United States, potentially related to investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. |
| December 18 2019 | The state charges against Manafort were dismissed due to the doctrine of double jeopardy. |
| September 2019 | Attorney General Barr was reported to be contacting foreign governments to seek information about the origins of the Russian investigation, personally traveling to the United Kingdom and Italy, and having President Trump contact the Australian prime minister on the subject. |
| August 2019 | Manafort was convicted of fraud charges and sentenced to 47 months in prison by Judge T.S. Ellis. |
| July 2019 | Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee submits the first volume of their investigation report, concluding the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference was 'coherent and well-constructed'. |
| June 2019 | Flynn fired his initial counsel and hired Sidney Powell. |
| May 2019 | According to former officials, Trump privately told Russian officials Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak he wasn't concerned about Russian election interference. |
| May 29 2019 | Robert Mueller announced his retirement as special counsel and spoke publicly about the report for the first time, emphasizing the multiple systematic efforts to interfere in the election and that the report was his testimony. |
| April 18 2019 | A redacted version of the Mueller Report was released to the public, confirming that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election in a 'sweeping and systematic fashion' and violated U.S. criminal laws. |
| March 2019 | Mueller concludes his special counsel investigation, finding Russian interference was 'sweeping and systematic' and 'violated U.S. criminal law'. He indicts 26 Russian citizens and 3 Russian organizations. |
| March 2019 | Trump claimed he was joking when he made the July 2016 remarks about Russia hacking Clinton's emails, contradicting his original serious demeanor during the initial statement. |
| March 24 2019 | Attorney General Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller Report's findings on Russian interference and potential obstruction of justice, stating that Mueller did not establish coordination between the Trump Campaign and Russian government in election interference. |
| March 13 2019 | Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Manafort to an additional 43 months in prison. On the same day, New York state prosecutors charged Manafort with sixteen state felonies. |
| February 2019 | Michael Cohen implicates Trump before U.S. Congress, stating Trump had knowledge of Roger Stone's communications with WikiLeaks about releasing stolen DNC emails. |
| 2018 | Putin stated that he had wanted Trump to win the election because Trump talked about improving U.S.-Russia relations. |
| 2018 | Viktor Vekselberg is detained at a New York area airport and his electronic devices are searched in connection with investigations into potential illegal campaign donations. |
| 2018 | At the Helsinki summit, Trump sided with Russian assertions over U.S. intelligence community assessments about election interference, causing significant bipartisan backlash. |
| December 2018 | Senate Intelligence Committee released a report (The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency) detailing Russian influence operations targeting specific demographic groups in the 2016 US election. |
| October 2018 | Russian operations on Facebook and Twitter became more publicly known, with media attention shifting to their activities on these platforms. |
| October 2018 | Public awareness emerged about Instagram's significant role in Russian interference, which had largely remained unnoticed until this time. |
| September 7 2018 | Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison, 12 months supervised release, 200 hours of community service, and fined $9,500. |
| August 2018 | Vashukevich stated she no longer has the evidence, having sent the recordings to Oleg Deripaska and promised not to make further comments about their contents. |
| August 16 2018 | John Brennan stated that Trump's claims of 'no collusion' with Russia were 'hogwash'. |
| July 2018 | An online Ipsos poll showed 60% of Americans believed Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, with 85% of Democrats, 53% of Independents, and 46% of Republicans holding this view. |
| July 2018 | A federal indictment of Russian GRU agents referenced the hacking attempt on July 27, 2016, noting its proximity to Trump's public remarks. |
| July 15 2018 | Maria Butina is arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent, attempting to create back-channel communications between American Republicans/conservatives and Russian officials. |
| July 13 2018 | Special Counsel's Indictment detailed the GRU's systematic cyberattack, confirming the targeting of Democratic Party and Clinton campaign individuals through spearphishing and malware. |
| June 2018 | Roger Stone disclosed a meeting with a Russian individual during the 2016 campaign, who wanted Trump to pay two million dollars for 'dirt on Hillary Clinton'. |
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