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2013
The Maidan Revolution is born as protestors take to the streets in Kiev, Ukraine, on November 21.
Between November and February, Vice President Joe Biden makes nine phone calls to Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych.
In December, State Department official Victoria Nuland is in Kiev meeting with Yanukovych, opposition, and protestors in effort to shape foreign government.
2014
After Ukrainian president Yanukovych flees to Russia in February, Biden visits Kiev in April to warn Ukrainian officials against corruption.
In May Bidens son Hunter is appointed to the board of Bursima, an energy company owned by an ally of the exiled Yanukovych.
In August, a Ukrainian prosecutor opens investigation of Burisma. By end of year, owner of company paying Bidens son $80,000 a month has fled Ukraine and is on the most wanted list.
2015
Through the spring and summer, Biden is in regular contact with the new Ukrainian president, Poroshenko.
Donald Trump announces his candidacy for president on June 16.
On July 14, the Obama administration strikes a nuclear agreement with Iran.
In the summer, CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella is detailed to the White House and works with Biden.
In October, Washington, DCbased opposition research firm Fusion GPS hires CIA contractor Nellie Ohr for research on alleged Trump ties to Russian organized crime figures.
On December 7, a New York Times article reports on Hunter Bidens work for Ukrainian firm Burisma.
On December 9, Joe Biden first publicly calls for the Ukrainian government to clean out the prosecutors office investigating the company that is paying his son.
2016
In mid-January, the Obama White House invites Ukrainian officials to Washington and asks them to drop the investigation of the company paying Hunter Biden. US officials also ask for information on a Republican strategist who worked with Ukrainian officials, Paul Manafort. Biden aide and Ukraine specialist Ciaramella is in attendance.
Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, senior Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson begin to correspond regarding Trump and Russia issues.
Trump names his foreign policy team in March 21 interview with the Washington Post.
A smear campaign tying Trump officials to Russian interests begins to appear in the US press at the end of March.
Paul Manafort is named Trump campaign convention manager on March 29.
On March 29, the Ukrainian parliament dismisses the prosecutor investigating the company paying Bidens son.
In April, Fusion GPS is hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Rome-based academic Joseph Mifsud tells Trump aide George Papadopoulos on April 24 that Russia possesses the Hillary Clinton emails.
Papadopoulos meets in early May with Alexander Downer. In late July, the Australian diplomat tells US counterpart Elizabeth Dibble that the Trump aide suggested Russia may have damaging information on Clinton.
In May, Fusion GPS hires Steele to investigate Trumps ties to Russia.
Donald Trump Jr. agrees to a June 9 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. She has Clinton-funded Fusion GPS under contract to push pro-Putin, anti-US information campaign.
On June 12 Julian Assange announces that Wikileaks will publish Clinton-related emails.
The first memo, dated June 20, from the dossier attributed to Steele, alleges that Trump is supported by Russian government.
Steele meets FBI agent Michael Gaeta in London on July 5.
The same day, FBI director James Comey clears Clinton regarding the private computer server investigation.
Carter Page delivers a speech in Moscow on July 7.
Halper meets Carter Page at a Cambridge University symposium on July 11.
A July 19 Steele memo alleges that prior to visiting Cambridge, Page had met with Russian officials in Moscow.
Wikileaks posts stolen Democratic National Committee emails on July 22.
On July 24, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook claims that Russia hacked the DNC emails to assist Trump. Dossier memo from late July makes same allegation.
Steele meets with Bruce and Nellie Ohr in Washington, DC, on July 30.
On July 31, the FBI opens an umbrella investigation of the Trump team based on the information regarding Papadopoulos that the Australian diplomat gave to the US embassy in London. The investigation is called Crossfire Hurricane.
On August 10, the FBI begins separate investigations of Manafort, Page, and Papadopoulos.
On August 11 and 12, Crossfire Hurricane agents meet with FBI informant Stefan Halper, who claims an acquaintance with Page, Manafort, and Flynn.
FBI agent Peter Strzok sends the insurance policy text to FBI lawyer Lisa Page on August 15.
On August 16, the FBI opens an investigation of Flynn, called Crossfire Razor.
August 20, Halper meets with Page and asks if the Trump campaign is planning an October surprise to spring on the Clinton campaign. He records Page.
CIA director John Brennan briefs Senate minority leader Harry Reid on Trump-Russia claims on August 25.
Reid sends an open letter on August 29 to Comey regarding Carter Page and demands that he come forth with information he is holding.
On September 15, Halper meets twice with Papadopoulos and records him.
Yahoo News publishes a story sourced anonymously to Steele that implicates Page as a Russian spy on September 23. The article by Michael Isikoff is later used to obtain a spy warrant on Carter Page.
On September 28, FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is notified of Clinton emails found on a Clinton aides laptop.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court grants the FBI a warrant to monitor Pages communications on October 21.