Shady Russian oligarch Klyushin, exposed for ties with Trump, is now stalking people on Twitter.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

In the past week, several investigative reporters on Twitter--most notably Seth Abramson and Scott Stedman--have gone to great lengths to detail Trump's interactions with various Russian individuals around the time of his 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

This has included Artem Klyushin, a young oligarch who is close friends with Konstantin Rykov, a.k.a. "Putin's Trollmaster" who bragged on Facebook after the election that he ran an information campaign using Cambridge Analytica and Wikileaks in order to target voters for Trump.

Klyushin, along with his then-wife Yulya Alfarova, were ever present at Trump's side at the 2013 Miss Universe event. (Alferova was even present with the Agalarovs in Las Vegas prior to the pageant as it was being set up.) Shortly after the pageant, Klyushin and Alfarova started to heavily promote Trump online as a potential presidential candidate (over a year before he officially announced.) Klyushin reportedly attended a Trump speech in Iowa in September 2015. Some even believe he might have knowledge about prostitutes being ordered for Trump while he was staying at the Moscow Ritz Carlton.

He's continued to be a vocal proponent of Trump on Twitter, and now in an even more curious move, has shifted to being a strong supporter of Roy Moore's campaign for Alabama Senate.

Problem is, ever since Abramson and Stedman began heavily reporting on Klyushin over Twitter, people who have followed both reporters and commented on their tweets have found themselves an unwelcome new follower.

Artem Klyushin.

Himself.

Verified with the blue checkmark and everything.

Here's Abramson reporting on it, with a lot of people testifying to receiving unsolicited followings from Klyushin in the comments:

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Seth Abramson‏Verified account
@SethAbramson

I'm getting flooded with DMs from people who follow me and who Artem Klyushin—a Kremlin agent—has now followed.

Many are saying it scares them.

I get it.

But we can't allow some two-bit Russian provocateur to intimidate us. He *chose* to put himself in the middle of this plot.

6:57 PM - 27 Nov 2017

[snooper2]

1. Why the hell would anybody be "scared"? Just twit back to the asshole to suck your

- insert whatever reference you prefer LOL

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Russians on the internet tend to give some people the willies.

Especially when their names have been associated with known hackers.

[ffr]

3. Drip. Drip. Drip.

Mueller's investigation into the tRump and KGOP crime families can't come to a conclusion too soon.

And tRump is still holding up on Russian sanctions.

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