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In mid-November 2016, various fake news sites began sharing a claim that George Soros, (a Hungarian-American billionaire, philanthropist, and frequent target of conspiracy theories) was in deep trouble with the Russian government — so much so that Russian president Vladimir Putin had issued an international arrest warrant for him: Soros, who has attracted so many conspiracy theories that a Wikipedia page has been dedicated to them, is not on Interpol's list of people wanted by Russia for international arrest and extradition. None of the articles, tellingly, say what charges Putin supposedly wants to extradite Soros for, other than a vague claim that he is a threat to Russian national security. In 2015, the Russian government did ban Soros' charities, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute, claiming they represented a threat to the country's security: On 6 October 2016, Soros went on record criticizing Putin's actions in Syria, calling them war crimes: While the two men do seem to be at odds, no evidence documents that Putin has issued or will issue an international arrest warrant for Soros.
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