'It's shameful': Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West's leading educational and cultural institutions

Russian billionaires have given enormous sums of money to philanthropies. Experts say it's an attempt to save their reputations.

They've sponsored fellowships at Ivy League schools, have educational centers named after them, and sit on the boards of leading cultural institutions in the United States and Western Europe. They're celebrated philanthropists and patrons of the arts.

But there's something else these donors share that other well-heeled benefactors do not: Deep financial ties to Russia.