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Sergei Millian is a Belarusian-American real estate broker, and former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.

Life in America

In 2001, Millian moved to the United States.

In May 2006, he formed the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta.

In 2007, he was invited by Donald Trump to attend a horse racing event in Miami. He was subsequently contracted to market Trump Hollywood properties by a brokerage company hired by the Trump Organization and The Related Group.

In March 2014, he told Fox News that his Russian-American Chamber of Commerce website was recently hacked.

Trump 2016 presidential campaign

In March 2016, Millian reached out to Michael Cohen about joining the campaign, highlighting his knowledge of Russian politics and business.

In July 2016, he made a similar pitch to George Papadopoulos. Later, he offered to supply Papadopoulos with a "disruptive technology that might be instrumental in political work for the campaign."

Post-election reporting

Beginning in early 2017, Millian was reported to have been an unwitting key source for several allegations in the Steele dossier. Millian has denied these reports.

In February 2018, Harvard professor Laurence Tribe alleged on Twitter that Millian was a passenger on a sabotaged Russian airliner. The tweet was deleted after it was shown to be a 4chan hoax.

Mueller investigation interview declined

Millian was contacted multiple times by investigators for the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019), but their invitations for an interview were declined.

References

1. Ross, Brian (August 28, 2018). "In a July 2016 interview with ABC News, his only appearance on U.S. television, Belarusian-born businessman Sergei Millian described meeting directly with Donald Trump in years past". Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. My grandmother's name was Millianovich, so I really like that name. And I respect my grandmother, so I decided to -- I had to shorten it because it was too Slavic and too complicated to pronounce for the Americans. So I changed it to Millian.
2. Mosk, Matthew; Santucci, John (August 28, 2018). "Mysterious 'key figure' in Russia probe sought Trump team contacts. Investigators want to know why". ABC News. Archived from the original on December 4, 2018. The obscure Belarusian-born businessman and naturalized American citizen once boasted about his past work pushing Trump properties to Russian buyers and aggressively sought to get close to the Trump team both during and immediately after the campaign.
3. Corn, David (January 19, 2017). "Investigators on the Trump-Russia Beat Should Talk to This Man". Archived from the original on May 3, 2020. Millian's online bio notes he graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University with the equivalent of a master's degree in 2000.
4. "Sergei Millian /Kukuts/ was promoted to V.P., Associate Real Estate Broker with NestSeekers International on January 6, 2011". February 15, 2011. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013.
5. Chaban, Matt (October 14, 2013). "$48 million fixer-upper hits upper East Side market, needs $10 million more for luxury makeover". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on October 31, 2017. "It would make a perfect single-family home for the right buyer," Nestseekers broker Sergei Millian said of the 12,000-square-footer between Madison and Park Aves.
6. "Trump's secret informant fears for his life". February 2, 2017. Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Millian moved to the United States in 2001.
7. Miller, Leigh (February 12, 2006). "Russian-American Chamber of Commerce Formed in Atlanta". Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. A Russian-American Chamber of Commerce has been formed in Atlanta to encourage business ties between Russia and the former Soviet republics and Georgia and to bring investment to the state.
8. Say, May (August 25, 2016). "When It Comes To Business, Relations Between Russia And The U.S. Are Surprisingly Strong". Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Sergei Millian, president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce – established in 2006 in Atlanta – estimates there are more than 10,000 such businesses in our two countries, employing up to 3 million people.
9. "Georgia Corporations Division: Russian-American Chamber of Commerce". Retrieved May 23, 2018. Date of Formation / Registration Date: 5/24/2006
10. Zavadski, Katie; Mak, Tim (September 8, 2016). "Meet The Man Who Is Spinning For Donald Trump In Russia". Archived from the original on June 7, 2018. In a lengthy interview with RIA News, a Russian language outlet, in April, Millian boasted about instantly winning Trump's affection at the Moscow Millionaire's Fair in 2007, when his friends organized Trump's trip. A decade out from his presidential bid, Trump then allegedly invited Millian to horse races at Gulfstream, Florida.
11. Helderman, Rosalind; Hamburger, Tom (February 7, 2019). "Sergei Millian, identified as an unwitting source for the Steele dossier, sought proximity to Trump's world in 2016". Archived from the original on February 7, 2019. On Facebook and in literature for his Russian chamber of commerce, he posted a photo of himself with Trump, snapped at a horse track in Miami in 2007 after he said "mutual associates" introduced them.
12. Belton, Catherine (October 31, 2016). "The shadowy Russian emigre touting Trump". Financial Times. Archived from the original on February 27, 2020. The chamber of commerce removed from its website earlier this year an April 2009 newsletter, where Mr Millian said the chamber had "signed formal agreements" with the Trump Organisation, Mr Perez's Related Group and one other company to "jointly service the Russian clients' commercial, residential and industrial real-estate needs".
13. Mosk, Matthew (February 20, 2018). "Where in the world is Sergei Millian? Congress's Trump-Russia investigators hunt for mystery man". Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Millian has not always been silent. He granted an interview to ABC News in July of 2016, during the presidential campaign. He described meeting Trump in 2008 during a marketing meeting to help bring attention to the Trump-branded development in Hollywood, Florida.
14. Bartiromo, Maria (March 18, 2014). "Russian-American Chamber president on capital flight out of Russia". Just after the Crimea vote, our website was shut down and hacked.
15. "INTERVIEW OF: MICHAEL COHEN" (PDF). October 24, 2017. This email is from a Sergi Millian to your email address on March 15th, 2016. So Mr. Cohen, the sentence says: "Please incorporate me in the Russian direction, as you know I have insider level knowledge of what is happening in Russia after 10 years of hosting Russian ministers, governors, businessmen, and public leaders."
16. Berger, Sam; Dessel, Talia (June 13, 2019). "Trump invites foreigners to distort 2020 elections. Why won't he protect his own country?". Archived from the original on May 29, 2020. Papadopoulos exchanged texts with Sergei Millian, who was born in Belarus and claimed to have "insider knowledge and direct access to the top hierarchy in Russian politics."
17. @JohnWHuber (May 19, 2019). "P1/Millian - Steele's "unwitting" source - was in repeated, direct personal contact with Papadopoulos. Millian first reached out to Papadopoulos on July 15, 2016, via LinkedIn" (Tweet) – via Twitter. {{Cite tweet}}: |date= / |number= mismatch (help)
18. Kim, Soo Rin (April 21, 2019). "Russia-linked figures in Mueller's probe come in from the cold after report's release". Archived from the original on April 24, 2019. The Mueller report indicated that Millian in August 2016 sent a Facebook message to Papadopoulos offering to share with him "a disruptive technology that might be instrumental in your political work for the campaign."
19. Maremont, Mark (January 24, 2017). "Key Claims in Trump Dossier Said to Come From Head of Russian-American Business Group". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March 23, 2017. In the dossier, the source believed to be Mr. Millian is referred to at various times as both Source D and Source E and is cited as somebody "speaking in confidence to a compatriot" or "speaking in confidence to a trusted associate."
20. Ross, Brian; Mosk, Matthew (January 24, 2017). "US-Russia Businessman Said to Be Source of Key Trump Dossier Claims". Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. The source of the most salacious allegations in the uncorroborated dossier about President Trump and the Russians is a onetime Russian government translator, according to a person familiar with the raw intelligence provided to the FBI.
21. Helderman, Rosalind; Hamburger, Tom (March 27, 2017). "Who is 'Source D'? The man said to be behind the Trump-Russia dossier's most salacious claim". Archived from the original on January 4, 2020. The allegations by Millian — whose role was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been confirmed by The Washington Post — were central to the dossier compiled by the former spy, Christopher Steele.
22. Bertrand, Natasha (February 11, 2017). "The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct". Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Source E," according to recent reports by the Wall Street Journal snd ABC, is Sergei Millian. Millian, who attended several black-tie events at Trump's inauguration last month, denies this.
23. Tribe, Laurence (February 12, 2018). "Among those killed in the tragic plane crash yesterday: Sergei Millian, a Papadopoulis friend who had emailed Kushner and is said to be behind one of the most salacious claims in the dossier on Trump's involvement with Russia. Probably just coincidence" (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 12, 2018 – via Twitter.
24. Greenwald, Glenn (February 12, 2018). "Harvard's Laurence Tribe Has Become a Deranged Russia Conspiracist: Today Was His Most Humiliating Debacle". Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Laurence Tribe did not wait even 24 hours to exploit yesterday's tragic crash of a Russian regional jet shortly after it took off from Moscow, killing all 71 people aboard. On Twitter this morning, Tribe (pictured above in 2010 with former Vice President Joe Biden) strongly insinuated that the Russian government may have purposely sabotaged the plane, murdering all of those on board, in order to silence one of the passengers, Sergei Millian, who has been linked to a couple of figures involved in the Trump-Russia investigation
25. Stern, Marlow (February 12, 2018). "He fell for a 4chan hoax" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
26. "Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election" (PDF). Retrieved April 18, 2019. The Office investigated another Russia-related contact with Papadopoulos. The Office was not fully able to explore the contact because the individual at issue—Sergei Millian—remained out of the country since the inception of our investigation and declined to meet with members of the Office despite our repeated efforts to obtain an interview.