NRA-Linked Russia Central Banker Retires

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Bloomberg

Alexander Torshin, whose assistant is closing in on a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors after being charged with acting as a Kremlin agent in Washington, is leaving his position as deputy governor of Russia’s central bank.

Torshin retired, the Russian regulator said in a statement Friday. He turned 65 Tuesday. The announcement came after the U.S. government said this week that prosecutors are optimistic about reaching a deal with Maria Butina, a gun-rights activist currently jailed for failing to register as a Russian agent. Russian officials call her a “political prisoner.”

While the official retirement age at the central bank is 60, employees are allowed to continue working beyond that. Torshin assumed his current post in January 2015, when he was 61. The central bank declined to elaborate on its one-sentence statement Friday. Torshin did not immediately respond to attempts to reach him.

Torshin and Butina worked closely together, according to electronic messages quoted in the U.S. filings in her case. In Twitter messages cited by prosecutors, he encourages Butina, calling her a rising “political star.” She asks for his mentorship in their effort to “advance Moscow’s long-term strategic objectives” in the U.S.

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[Botany]

1. schadenfreude time

And as the Russia money to the NRA dries up so does the NRA.

Ohio's own Rob Portman got $10 million from the NRA in 2016 and I wonder
how much of that came from Russia.

[The Liberal Lion]

2. Don't be surprised if he is soon found floating in the Moskva face down.

I'm telling you the gig is up for putin. Expect some disappearances.

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans hope Pooty Poot disappears the dude

because they are up to their eyebrows in this evil anti-American shit.

[riversedge]

6. agree.

[tekriter]

4. Medical treatment upcoming

We may soon hear that he retired for medical reasons and is undergoing "treatment". That "treatment" might be "embalming".

[Mrs. Overall]

5. Perhaps at his retirement party (on the 10th floor), there will be a defenestration.

[Grasswire2]

7. conveeeeenient. nt