https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/group-with-ties-to-yanukovych-wants-to-keep-lobbying-in-the

Vin Weber, a former congressman and Mitt Romney adviser who is the lead lobbyist for Mercury's contract with the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, did not respond to a request for an interview. Nor did two of the lobbyists involved with the Podesta Group contract.

The Centre has no staff, Kirsch said, only a few "volunteers," some of whom are Ukrainian and some of whom are not.

In 2012, the group was involved in a campaign in which conservative American writers were given pro-Yanukovych talking points about the 2012 parliamentary elections which kept the Party of Regions in power and repeated them in outlets like RedState and Breitbart. One writer said they had been offered $500 per post.

The fact that the group is not officially a Ukrainian government entity allows it to avoid classification as a foreign principal, meaning its lobbyists can file under the Lobbying Disclosure Act instead of the much stricter Foreign Agent Registration Act.

nobody knows who runs center for ukraine

buzzfeed tells them how

does tp rejoin center after 2014 still digging

romney