If you look at the nationalist parties across Europe that rose in the 2005-2015 period, all of them had people in the leadership who were sex pests. $1/yr. million is nothing to the Kremlin but it is a huge chunk of the budget of a party like AfD, SNP, Golden Dawn, etc. 5/

A politician who brings in donors contributing 10%, 20% or more of the party finances is going to get promoted fast. Putin bought control of the nationalist parties and weaponized them. /6