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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Western guests including Elon Musk’s father to speak at pro-Putin oligarch’s Moscow forum

Errol Musk, father of Elon Musk
Errol Musk, the father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, downplayed the dispute between his son with Donald Trump, saying they were ‘stressed’. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images

A pro-Putin Russian oligarch is hosting a two-day conference in Moscow on Monday, featuring a lineup of western speakers, including Elon Musk’s father, Errol, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the British politician George Galloway.

The conference, titled Future Forum 2050, is organised by Konstantin Malofeev – an influential ultra-nationalist tycoon close to the Kremlin and under western sanctions – and appears to mark Moscow’s latest effort to court western figures.

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