#viktor yanukovych

[ohsalome]

— Timothy Snyder, "The Road to Unfreedom"

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Vladimir Putin met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who is in Russia on a working visit on March 4, 2013, at Zavidovo, Tver Region.

[quotesfrommyreading]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, both Russian and Ukrainian societies struggled to forge new identities. Both contended with poverty, corruption, and growing inequality. Both had leaders who tried to stay in office by falsifying the vote. But in 2004 Ukrainians revolted against a rigged election, camping out in Kyiv’s Independence Square for weeks. The country’s highest court ordered a revote. Nine years later, when the President sold the country out to Russia—agreeing to scrap an association agreement with the European Union in exchange for fifteen billion in Russian loans—Ukrainians of vastly different political persuasions came to Independence Square again. They stayed there, day and night, through the dead of winter. They stayed when the government opened fire on them. More than a hundred people died before the corrupt President fled to Russia. A willingness to die for freedom is now a part of not only Ukrainians’ mythology but their lived history.

  —  The Crushing Loss of Hope in Ukraine

[tomorrowusa]

DeSantis spokeswoman belatedly registers as agent of foreign politician

Christina Pushaw’s disclosure of work for Mikheil Saakashvili came after contact from the Justice Department, her attorney said.

Yep, Ron DeSantis’s spokesperson is a foreign agent.

That must mean Ron De wants AMERICA SECOND. 😠

A spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week registered as a foreign agent of a former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, belatedly detailing work she performed for the politician between 2018 and 2020.

The spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, made the disclosure following contact from the Justice Department, according to her attorney, Michael Sherwin. She began her work in 2018 as a volunteer in the post-Soviet country, Sherwin said, and was ultimately paid $25,000 over the course of two years. She received her first payment, of $10,000 in October 2018, in cash, according to her filing. She stayed for free for six weeks in an apartment owned by a Saakashvili associate in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.

Of course, Pushaw isn’t the only Republican working for foreign masters.

Trump crony Paul Manafort famously worked for Viktor Yanukovych, the Putin puppet who was president of Ukraine from 2010 until 2014 when he was overthrown in a pro-democracy revolution. Yanukovych fled to Russia where he apparently still resides.

Manafort didn't just consult for Russian-backed politicians in Ukraine — he also helped them form a new party

Feel free to laugh whenever you hear Trump Republicans chanting “America first!”  😆🤭

Donald Trump himself has long been suspect as a Russian stooge.

Trump's obsession with rumored pee-pee tapes and golden showers prompts this repost of my 2018 diary

[thesociologicalcinema]

In this image Ukrainian protesters burn barricades to prevent riot police from storming Independence Square, February 19, 2014. The protests culminated in the ousting of the elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and ultimately the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government only days after this image was taken — in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo credit: Sergey Ponomarev

[dragoni]

How Manafort spent $18 million in Laundered Money

Home improvement company in the Hamptons, in New York: $5.4 million.

Home lighting and entertainment company in Florida: $1.3 million.

Antique rug store in Alexandria, Virginia: $934,350, plus $100,000 related to those purchases.

Men's clothing store in New York: $849,215.

Landscaping in the Hamptons: $820,240.

Antique dealer in New York: $623,910.

Clothing store in Beverly Hills, California: $520,440.

Investment company: $500,000.

Contractor in Florida: $432,487.

Contractor in Virginia: $125,650.

A Mercedes-Benz: $62,750.

A Range Rover: $47,000.

Payments related to three Range Rovers: $163,705.

Home equipment installation company in the Hamptons: $112,825.

Property management company in South Carolina: $46,000.

Art gallery in Florida: $31,900.

Housekeeping in New York: $20,000.

The indictment also says Manafort used the money to buy three properties:

Condominium in New York's SoHo neighborhood for $1.5 million.

Brownstone in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood for $3 million.

House in Arlington, Virginia, for $1.9 million

#ForeignAgent #MoneyLaundering #MuellerMonday @realDonaldTrump

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[ohsalome]

- Timothy Snyder - The Road to Unfreedom