Russiagate

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A late 1990s scandal 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.
• The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued since the 2016 US presidential election about the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.

Origin

• Russia + -gate