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Ex-Trump Advisor Kellyanne Conway, (click here) Known For Her 'Alternative Facts,' Turns Lobbyist For Ukrainian Billionaire Victor Pinchuk...
Ex-Trump Advisor Kellyanne Conway, (click here) Known For Her 'Alternative Facts,' Turns Lobbyist For Ukrainian Billionaire Victor Pinchuk...
From Forbes. Wall Street never criticizes people with money. They are only great achievers.
He still operates Interpipe, which makes pipes and railway wheels, and also Starlight Media, which owns 6 TV stations.
Pinchuk owns Grand Buildings, a landmark historical building on Trafalgar Square in London.
He is a son-in-law of Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma.
PinchukArtCenter, which he chairs, is known for its biannual global contemporary art prize, Future Generation Art Prize, which awards $100K to a young artist....
Yes, he is a Ukraine Oligarch that has acted in what is believed to be a benefit to Ukraine. Yes, he threw a nice party for President Zelensky.
January 20, 2023
Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor
...On Thursday morning, (click here) the hot ticket in the Swiss mountain town was an early morning breakfast session hosted by the foundation of Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky beamed in virtually for a conversation moderated by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who was joined in the room by a slate of prominent Western cabinet ministers and politicians, as well as CEOs and fund managers....
But, his father-in-law was a Pro-Russian politician that made it into the presidency of Ukraine. Leonid Kuchma, even as a Ukrainian president was a racketeer and leader of some of the worst corruption Ukraine has known.
By Katya Gorchinskaya
...When I approached him for a profile I was writing, Pinchuk was polite, (click here) completely unwilling to talk, and had the audacity to ask me to ditch the story. The story ran the following week. Years later, he introduced me to a foreign dignitary as the first journalist to call him “an oligarch.”
The word was only beginning to gain currency at the time. Kuchma was approaching the end of his first term as president, and the whole phenomenon of oligarchy in the post-Soviet sense, or rule by a small economic and political elite, was in its infancy and still poorly understood in Ukraine.
But the creation of an oligarchic system appears to have been a conscious policy priority for Kuchma, a concept he trumpeted early and often. From his very first address to parliament as president in 1994, he insisted that Ukraine needed “financial industrial groups” to drive the transformation of Ukraine’s state-monopolized economy.
What he didn’t mention is that hand-picked people would have the opportunity to make fortunes on the privatization of Soviet enterprises, from the trade in gas and natural resources, and through other shadowy means....
The word was only beginning to gain currency at the time. Kuchma was approaching the end of his first term as president, and the whole phenomenon of oligarchy in the post-Soviet sense, or rule by a small economic and political elite, was in its infancy and still poorly understood in Ukraine.
But the creation of an oligarchic system appears to have been a conscious policy priority for Kuchma, a concept he trumpeted early and often. From his very first address to parliament as president in 1994, he insisted that Ukraine needed “financial industrial groups” to drive the transformation of Ukraine’s state-monopolized economy.
What he didn’t mention is that hand-picked people would have the opportunity to make fortunes on the privatization of Soviet enterprises, from the trade in gas and natural resources, and through other shadowy means....
I have to wonder why at the eleventh hour after the USA Democratic Party has proposed a new presidential candidate, Kellyanne Conway shows up to register as a lobbyist with ties to a Pro-Russian and corrupt president of Ukraine?
It is nice Viktor threw a nice party at Davos that enabled President Zelensky to speak to the crowd when he was looking for support for the war the Ukrainian people were facing. But, that is exactly the kind of investment someone with ties to Russia would do to bring about good affiliations regardless of the true agenda.
I am concerned.
I think it prudent to be weary of Ms. Conway and her new found wealth given her petulant tendency to fabricate a new truth in the face of real facts.
While Leonid Kuchma is deceased his reputation still stands as pivotal in turning Ukraine toward Russia. He practiced censorship, arrested journalists, he always denied any involvement in the killing in 2000 of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. During the Kushma administration the Ukraine Air Force shot down a Siberian Airllines jet carrying 78 Israelis visiting family in Russia but returning to Israel. Everyone on board died.
Kuchma became a communist party chief at the age of 38 and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and was a delegate of the 27th and 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He was president of Ukraine for two terms, saw economic downturns. He talked as most politicians of the time of being great friends with the EU and wanted to meet their demands in order to secure trade agreements, but, he was far too corrupt and instead signed treaties with Russia.
Kushma's Prime Minister was Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych would become the President of Ukraine after Viktor Yushchenko who was poisoned and nearly died. As a special presidential advisor Kushma was also involved in some capacity with the Donbas region of Ukraine.
I find Trump's affection and loyalty to autocrats, especially Putin, a concern and now with Conway working with a person affiliated with a Late Pro-Russian president of Ukraine, it is all too cozy and she probably should be registered as a foreign agent as well.
