Oh, wow.
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Munich, Germany, on February 4, 2012. (Photo credit: State Department.)
Ukraine’s embattled rulers may have a clique of connected lobbyists swarming Congress, the State Department or even the White House pleading the case of President Viktor Yanukovich, whose tilt toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia has launched
three months of protests. But because of a change to disclosure requirements for agents of foreign powers, the public may never know.
Citing
the work of Ukrainian investigative journalist Sergil Leschenko and
Reuters, the Daily Beast
reportedthat the
European Center for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU) — a Brussels-based nonprofit founded by members of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions — hired the
Podesta Group and the
International Government Relations Group to lobby in Washington on U.S.-Ukraine relations.
Ukraine lobbying exposes holes in foreign agent registration
