# Russiagate

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A scandal in the late 1990s in which billions of dollars were laundered out of Russia by the bureaucracy of president Boris Yeltsin with the assistance of Western banks such as the Bank of New York.
2. The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the US presidential election in 2016 regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.

## Etymology
From Russia + -gate.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/russiagate