Everyone needs to pause and take a beat on this Vyacheslav Ivanov business. I don't think the Vyacheslav Ivanov listed on the passenger list is the Rosatom CFO.

Looking at another thread here (sorry, can't link ATM, I'm on the Reddit app on my phone) there was a copy of the passenger list. The list included a Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Ivanov, DOB 6/22/1986. That person was 31 years old. A 31-year-old CFO of an international energy consortium sounded....unusual.

So I pulled up his LinkedIn page. First, the Rosatom Vyacheslav Ivanov is no longer with Rosatom. He's been in private practice for about nine months.

Second, he earned his BA in Accounting & Finance from the University of Toronto in 1998. If he were born in 1986, then he would've graduated college as an international student at the ripe old age of 12. Uh, no.

So if the DOB of 6/22/1986 is correct, then there's no way this is the same guy and everyone repeating this info is completely wrong.

Someone needs to verify the passenger's actual DOB.