Elena Branson Early Life Elena Branson, aka Elena Chernykh, was born in 1961 in the Soviet Union, and later emigrated to the United States in 1991, according to the complaint gathered from the Government. She received the citizenship of the United States back in 1999. Thereafter, she started working for Russian authorities back in the early year of 2011. Then, she was permitted to open Russian Center New York in Manhattan back in 2012. The Moscow government granted the permission and authorized Elena Branson to directly task herself for the Russian officials to arrange events and public messaging. She was nominated as the chairperson of the Russian Community Council of the United States (previously known as Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots), but, following the FBI investigations the group was terminated back in 2021. https://wealthyspy.com/elena-branson/