Donald J. Trump Jr. was the keynote speaker alongside two Putin allies in Russian government service at the Russian Real Estate Summit in 2008. One Putin ally and conference speaker was himself an elected legislator in the Duma – or national parliament – as a member of the strongman’s United Russia party. The other speaker at that 2008 event is a still senior trade official, and was closely involved in organizing development around the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, in which the Russian President Putin was widely involved.

The newly discovered Russian Real Estate Summit event page differentiates for the first time that Donald Trump Jr. was actually the keynote speaker at the event run by Adam Smith Conferences, whose parent company is in the UK. This is the latest #TrumpLeaks revelation strongly linking the Trump Organization’s international businesses to Russia coming from the Democratic Coalition’s Scott Dworkin.

Importantly, the links and photos Democratic Coalition‘s Dworkin released today which elevates Trump Jr.’s participation level to “special guest,” also includes photographic evidence from Russian news photo agency Itar-TASS, that itself confirms Kommersant probably obtained Trump Jr.’s remarks at a formal press conference, possibly even via a press release. The extended subtitle of the Russian outlet’s 2008 story reads like a PR statement: