A Master of the Dark Arts

Before becoming a Silicon Valley publicist—and sometime correspondent of Jeffrey Epstein—Masha Bucher was a rising star in Russian youth politics.

With ties to both Vladimir Putin and Jeffrey Epstein, the Kremlin propagandist turned Silicon Valley girlboss Masha Bucher is a conspiracist’s fantasy

By Andrew Ryvkin

Jeffrey Epstein is the most famous face in the world right now. And his case, like almost every major American story of the past decade, has been thoroughly checked for Russian connections: Was he a Russian agent? Was the island a Kremlin operation? Was Epstein connected to Vladimir Putin? And if so, how? Aside from several e-mails where Epstein tries to arrange a meeting with the Russian dictator, few things pointed to him passing information to the Russians.

That changed when America found out about Masha Bucher (née Drokova), a Silicon Valley publicist and angel investor from Russia who’s READ ON