Anonymous ID: 3706eb March 19, 2022, 12:44 p.m. No.15899082   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9169

>>15899057

Goes back to about the time Sparkles and Lugar were over in Ukraine on their CBEP tour.

 

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

 

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

 

Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.

 

Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the US ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in central America, notably in Nicaragua, organised a near identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.

 

That one failed. "There will be no Kostunica in Belarus," the Belarus president declared, referring to the victory in Belgrade.

 

But experience gained in Serbia, Georgia and Belarus has been invaluable in plotting to beat the regime of Leonid Kuchma in Kiev.

Anonymous ID: 3706eb March 19, 2022, 12:58 p.m. No.15899153   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

PB Notable

>>15897348, >>15897400, >>15897465

 

>Kolomoisky

 

didn't know this piece

~2016

 

Ukrainian-Jewish Billionaire Sues Russia Over Inability to Operate Crimea Airport

 

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/ukrainian-jewish-magnate-sues-russia-1.5387419

 

Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sued Russia in an international court over his inability to operate an airport in Crimea.

 

The Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Hague-based intergovernmental organization with 117 member states, announced on Wednesday that it would review the lawsuit, Reuters reported.

 

Funded military actionโ€ฆwonder if Kolo had a hand in stuff kept at port in Beirut? Maybe some stuff in Crimea made it's way to Lebanon

Anonymous ID: 3706eb March 19, 2022, 1:50 p.m. No.15899450   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>15899281

funny how media avoids the Zelensky/Privatbank/Kolomoisky angle

 

2019

A bank scandal, an oligarch and the IMF: Ukraineโ€™s president has a lot to deal with right now

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/20/privatbank-ukraines-president-zelensky-and-the-oligarch-kolomoisky.html

 

In early 2018, the central bank released the findings of an investigation by corporate investigations consultancy Kroll that said that, prior to nationalization, Privatbank had been subjected to โ€œa large-scale and coordinated fraud over at least a 10-year period ending in December 2016.โ€ Again, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov denied those allegations.

 

Disputes between the former main shareholders and the government have taken place since 2016 with multiple legal battles (reportedly 600). There have been attempts by the state to recover losses from Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, who themselves argue that the nationalization was done on spurious grounds.

 

The chances that Privatbank could be returned to its former owners were boosted in April when a Ukrainian court ruled (in the last days of former leader Petro Poroshenkoโ€™s presidency) that the nationalization was illegal.