https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1623717840112046080
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https://contra.substack.com/p/the-minsk-agreements-tried-to-create
The Minsk Agreements Tried to Create Peace Between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky Said He Never Planned to Honor Them.
The Ukrainian president also accused the West of being insufficiently supportive of Ukraine, despite billions of dollars in aid committed before and after Russia invaded last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Massaro
Arthur Paul Massaro III (born June 24, 1991) is a senior policy advisor for the U.S. Helsinki Commission, also known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, where his portfolio includes counter-corruption, human rights, sanctions, illicit finance and energy security. Massaro has been involved in creating various anti-corruption and human rights reforms and shepherding them through the legislative system.
Massaro was born June 24, 1991 in Maryland and grew up in Severna Park, Maryland, attending Severna Park High School. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned bachelor's degrees in government & politics and Germanic studies.
He completed a master's degree in "public policy with a specialization in international security and economic policy" from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he is pursuing a PhD.
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-06-01-0706010054-story.html
In the role of Jesus, Paul Massaro, 15, has enormous stage presence, great charisma and strong acting skills to bring sincerity and clarity to the parables.
Commendable as it was to hear the prayers over the Eucharist recited in Hebrew, Massaro would be well advised to continue practicing his Hebrew recitation skills.
Another strong actor/singer is R.J. Pavel, a sophomore at Archbishop Spalding High who plays the dual roles of John the Baptist and Judas. Pavel was effective as John the Baptist in "Prepare Ye, the Way of the Lord" and properly edgy in his duet and soft-shoe with Massaro's Jesus in "All for the Best."
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/07/russia-war-ukraine-anti-corruption-00014532
When it comes to the assets of the oligarchs, “it’s going to be hard to get at. Nobody knows where everything is,” said Paul Massaro, a Capitol Hill staffer who has long pushed anti-corruption legislation. “We’ll need whistleblowers. We’ll need leaks.”
Nonetheless, the sudden surge of support for anti-corruption work is “a paradigm shift moment,” Massaro said. “I’m getting 100 calls a day from offices I’ve never worked with before who are like, ‘We want to go after oligarchs!’”
https://spp.umd.edu/our-community/faculty-staff/paul-massaro
Paul Massaro works at the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a bipartisan and bicameral U.S. government body led by nine Senators and nine Representatives. He serves there as the policy advisor responsible for OSCE “second dimension” issues, or economic and environmental policy. His portfolio includes topics such as anti-corruption, sanctions, finance, trade, Arctic issues, and energy security. He is also responsible for Mongolia and the OSCE Asian Partners for Cooperation (Japan, Korea, Thailand, Australia, and Afghanistan).
Paul holds a Master of Public Policy with a specialization in international security and economic policy from the Maryland School of Public Policy, where he graduated top of his class. He also holds two bachelor’s degrees in government and politics and Germanic studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is fluent in German.
https://www.csce.gov/about-csce/staff/paul-massaro-iii-policy-advisor
Paul Massaro, Senior Policy Advisor
Paul Massaro is the senior policy advisor for counter-corruption and sanctions. Paul’s work has advanced the recognition of corruption as a national security threat. He has been described in the media as “one of America’s foremost corruption experts” and an “endless source of democratic ingenuity." His work has been similarly described as "breathtakingly prescient.” He has worked on over 13 pieces of counter-corruption legislation and facilitated the founding of the Congressional Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against Kleptocracy. Paul also covers German-speaking Europe and East Asia.
His work on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, a landmark law redefining doping as fraud and making it illegal in international competitions anywhere in the world, has for the first time provided justice to clean athletes and held to account the authoritarian actors who use sport as a tool of foreign policy. The Associated Press described the unanimous passage of the act as “a remarkable achievement considering the polarization in U.S. politics.” His work on the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act was similarly groundbreaking, serving as the first-ever U.S. law to respond to abuse of INTERPOL by authoritarian regimes.
Paul is regularly quoted and published by major media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, POLITICO, and Foreign Policy, and he speaks frequently on panels, podcasts, and broadcasts about corruption, sanctions, and European security policy. His work is featured in Casey Michel’s book American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History. Paul is an alumnus of the National Endowment for Democracy Penn Kemble Fellowship and the Robertson Foundation for Government Fellowship. He speaks fluent German.
https://rfg.org/featured-fellow-paul-massaro/
RFG Featured Fellow: Paul Massaro
Paul Massaro, UMD SPP Class of 2015, is a policy advisor at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, which he joined in 2013.
The Helsinki Commission has a long and honorable history of action on behalf of human rights in Europe and Central Asia. It arose in response to the mid-70s Helsinki Final Act, which established the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. This process would eventually evolve into the multilateral Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) of today. The Act’s “Basket I” enhanced security and stability in the region. “Basket II” paved the way for economic, science and environmental cooperation, and the much-overlooked (initially) “Basket III” created openings for the West to press the USSR and Warsaw Pact governments to improve their human rights practices.
In recent months, the Commission has been in the headlines as Russia’s prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, requested interrogation of American officials, including Massaro’s direct boss.
The U.S. Helsinki Commission is an unusual joint Congress-Executive Branch entity, although its leadership is drawn solely from Congress. The Commission has played an unheralded but significant role in marshalling the support of the United States for important security and human rights concerns. The scope has increased with the times, including a wider array of issues such as combating kleptocracy. Massaro says it is important to note that the Commission has a record of holding both allies’ and adversaries’ feet to the fire, demanding concrete accomplishments, and fundamentally influencing U.S. policy with respect to foreign relations.
Massaro currently serves as the policy advisor responsible for OSCE “second dimension” issues, or economic and environmental policy. His portfolio includes topics such as anti-corruption, sanctions, finance, trade, Arctic issues, and energy security. He is also responsible for Mongolia and the OSCE Asian Partners for Cooperation (Japan, Korea, Thailand, Australia, and Afghanistan).
His work focuses on countering globalized corruption, specifically transnational authoritarian and criminal networks. He looks for policy solutions, convenes events including hearings, and develops financial and legal frameworks more resistant to authoritarian influence. He also advises Commissioners and liaises with the Executive Branch on relevant legislation. One example of his daily work is legislation like H.R. 6067, the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2018, which aims to establish criminal penalties and civil remedies for doping fraud violations at major international competitions.
>Massaro would be well advised to continue practicing his Hebrew recitation skills.
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