Maria Drokova, a former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi,” worked within Jeffrey Epstein’s public-relations network in the years before his final arrest, according to a new investigation by the British outlet Byline Times. The report adds an unexpected Russian dimension to the long-running scrutiny of Epstein’s circle, detailing how Drokova and a colleague helped manage the financier’s media strategy during 2017 and 2018.