Igor Danchenko

Igor Danchenko is a Russian national, and a Euraasia political risk, defence and economics analyst in the United States. In July 2020, he was revealed to be the primary source for Christopher Steele's 2016 election reporting.

Igor Danchenko
Игорь Юрьевич Данченко
Born
Igor Yurievich Danchenko

(1978-05-05) May 5, 1978[1]
Kungur, Perm Krai, Russia
NationalityRussian
Other namesIggy
OccupationAnalyst
Children1

Education

In 1996, Danchenko graduated from Specialized English Language School 7 in Perm, Russia.

Danchenko graduated from the Law Faculty of Perm State University and the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, United States.[2] While working at the Brookings Institution, Igor earned a Master’s degree from Georgetown University. In 2006-2009 he attended the CERES (Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies) Programme at the Walsh School of Foreign Service there.[3][4]

Career

Early in his career, Danchenko worked at Lukoil subsidiary Permtex in Perm and at UralSubSoetStroy in Iran.[5] Between 1999 and 2005, he was a facilitator for the Open World Russian Leadership Program, US Library of Congress and a leader for senior Russian federal and regional delegations to the US.

From 2003 to 2005, Danchenko worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Louisville.

In 2005, he became President of Professionals in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Affairs (PREEA), an organisation affiliated with Georgetown University, and began to work at the Brookings Institution, soon becoming Senior Research Analyst, where his specialty included foreign policy and the political elite of Russia, as well as energy policy.

He has worked in a number of analytical capacities over the years.

In 2006, Danchenko co-wrote a research paper that suggested that parts of Vladimir Putin's 1976 doctoral thesis had been plagiarized.[6]

Employment at Orbis

In 2014, Danchenko was hired by Christopher Steele to work at Orbis Business Intelligence in London.[7]

2016 U.S. election

Beginning in March 2016, Danchenko was tasked by Steele to investigate Paul Manafort, as well as Donald Trump, Carter Page, and Michael Cohen.[8]

Reaction to the publication of Steele's election reporting

In January 2017, shortly after BuzzFeed had published the Steele dossier, Danchenko was contacted by the FBI for an interview. About a week and a half later, in exchange for immunity, he agreed to answer questions about his work relationship with Steele, as well as his opinion on the accuracy of the Steele dossier.[9][10]

Identity revealed

In July 2020, online sleuths discovered the identity of Danchenko.[11]

Public charges

In March 2013, Danchenko was cited in Maryland for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and failure to have his child in a safety seat while on federal property.[12]

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References
  1. "Igor Danchenko". Odnoklassniki. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  2. https://tlt.ru/business/igor-danchenko-osnovnye-tendencii-svyazany-s-izmeneniem-roli-gosudarstva-v-ehkonomike/1857673/
  3. "Senior Analyst /Consultant / Research / Investment / Risks". Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. "Igor D." LinkedIn. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/igordanchenko/
  6. Strauss, Valerie (March 18, 2004). "Russia's plagiarism problem: Even Putin has done it!". Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. In 2005, two researchers at the Brookings Institution in Washington got a copy of the thesis, titled “Strategic Planning of the Reproduction of the Mineral Resource Base of a Region under Conditions of the Formation of Market Relations,” and presented their findings in 2006. Researchers Clifford Gaddy and Igor Danchenko found that the thesis had been heavily “borrowed” from a 1978 textbook, “Strategic Planning and Public Policy,” written by University of Pittsburgh Professors David I. Cleland and William R. King.
  7. Sperry, Paul (July 24, 2020). "Meet the Steele Dossier's 'Primary Subsource': Fabulist Russian at Democrat Think Tank Whose Boozy Past the FBI Ignored". Archived from the original on July 24, 2020. It turns out that in 2014, when Danchenko first started freelancing regularly for Steele after losing his job at a Washington strategic advisory firm, he set out to get a security clearance to start his own company. But drawing income from a foreign entity like Steele’s London-based company, Orbis Business Intelligence, would hurt his chances. He was desperate to find a salaried position with a U.S.-based firm.
  8. "Interview of Igor Danchenko" (PDF). p. 47. Retrieved July 25, 2020. [Danchenko] described the US election-related tasking came in three waves: (1) the initial tasking about Paul Manafort; (2) the tasking about any compromising materials on Donald Trump; (3) tasking about Sergey Ivanov's involvement in the US election; and (4) later on, in the fall of 2016, 4-5 names to ask about (which [Danchenko] talks about earlier, including Carter Page and Michael Cohen].
  9. Wemple, Erik (December 19, 2019). "Opinion:'Yeah, I briefly chased the pee tape' — New York Times reporter talks Steele dossier, Horowitz report and more". Archived from the original on April 20, 2020. I figured out the full extent of this Jan. 13, 2017*, meeting. It was awful. The dossier was garbage, and then I learned the court hadn’t been told.
  10. "Chairman Lindsey Graham leads an executive business meeting". June 11, 2020. When the Russian Sub-Source came to the FBI in January and submitted to a three-day interview—he was also interviewed in March and May...
  11. Goldman, Adam; Savage, Charlie (July 24, 2020). "The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking". Archived from the original on July 25, 2020. The report blacked out Mr. Danchenko’s name and other identifying information. But within two days, a post on a newly created blog entitled “I Found the Primary Subsource” identified him, citing clues left visible in the F.B.I. document.
  12. "USA v. Igor Danchenko" (PDF). Retrieved July 24, 2020. Mr. Danchenko is charged by way of citations with three petty offense misdemeanors, to wit: drunk in public, disorderly conduct, and failure to have his child in a safety seat.
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