CU v. State FOIA Production (Feb. 2024 - Biden and Associates China-Ukraine)

United States Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
February 7, 2024
Case No. FL-2019-07153
David N. Bossie
Citizens United
1006 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Mr. Bossie:
As we noted in our letter dated December 27, 2023, we are processing your
request for material under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C.
§ 552. The Department of State (“Department”) has identified 32 additional
records responsive to your request since its last release. Upon review, we
have determined that all 32 records may be released in part.
An enclosure explains the FOIA exemptions and other grounds for

withholding material. Where we have made redactions, the applicable FOIA
exemptions are marked on each record. Where applicable, the Department
has considered the foreseeable harm standard when reviewing these
records and applying FOIA exemptions. All non-exempt material that is
reasonably segregable from the exempt material has been released and is
enclosed.
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We will keep you informed as your case progresses. If you have any
questions, your attorney may contact Assistant United States Attorney Erika
Oblea at erika.oblea@usdoj.gov or (202) 252-2567. Please refer to the case
number, FL-2019-07153, and the civil action number, 19-cv-02108, in all
correspondence about this case.
Sincerely,
Diamonece Hickson
Chief, Litigation and Appeals Branch
Office of Information Programs and Services
Enclosures: As stated.
The Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552)
FOIA Exemptions
(b)(1) Information specifically authorized by an executive order to be kept secret in the interest of
national defense or foreign policy. Executive Order 13526 includes the following
classification categories:
1.4(a) Military plans, systems, or operations

1.4(b) Foreign government information
1.4(c) Intelligence activities, sources or methods, or cryptology
1.4(d) Foreign relations or foreign activities of the US, including confidential sources
1.4(e) Scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to national security,
including defense against transnational terrorism
1.4(f) U.S. Government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities
1.4(g) Vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects,
plans, or protection services relating to US national security, including defense
against transnational terrorism
1.4(h) Weapons of mass destruction
(b)(2) Related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency
(b)(3) Specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than 5 USC 552), for example:
ARMSEXP Arms Export Control Act, 50a USC 2411(c)

CIA PERS/ORG Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, 50 USC 403(g)
EXPORT CONTROL Export Administration Act of 1979, 50 USC App. Sec. 2411(c)
FS ACT Foreign Service Act of 1980, 22 USC 4004
INA Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 USC 1202(f), Sec. 222(f)
IRAN Iran Claims Settlement Act, Public Law 99-99, Sec. 505
(b)(4) Trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information
(b)(5) Interagency or intra-agency communications forming part of the deliberative process,

attorney-client privilege, or attorney work product
(b)(6) Personal privacy information
(b)(7) Law enforcement information whose disclosure would:

(A) interfere with enforcement proceedings
(B) deprive a person of a fair trial
(C) constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy
(D) disclose confidential sources
(E) disclose investigation techniques
(F) endanger life or physical safety of an individual
(b)(8) Prepared by or for a government agency regulating or supervising financial institutions
(b)(9) Geological and geophysical information and data, including maps, concerning wells
Other Grounds for Withholding
NR Material not responsive to a FOIA request excised with the agreement of the requester
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Lagarde/PP call went well. Assuming budget is passed and some non-legislative steps are taken on energy
subsidies, the staff report for this review can be concluded. Looks like IMF will agree with pensions moving to next
review. Unclear whether Board date can be scheduled by mid-Jan (might be end-Jan due to senior IMF leadership
travel) but we are following up.
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We are hearing that Ukrainian authorities have detected massive siphoning off of funds from the bank in recent
days, with hallmarks of fraudulent activity. A reminder this saga is not over, and this may be the next chapter.
Our team in Kyiv is continuing to monitor the system-wide situation. Still broadly calm. Some reports of A TMs
running out of money in selected cities.
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All has proceeded smoothly today. Press conference went well, NBU/MOF deployment teams have landed at the
Privat, EBRD has issued a strongly supportive statement, and IMF statement just came out. No lines in front of
Privat branches, and no disruptions to the payment network. Local commentary has been positive. Treasury OTA
team is very pleased with the execution so far. We will continue to monitor.
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Nathan spoke with Lipton this evening. Bottom line is confirmation of the gameplan below. IMF is engaged and is
working with Ukrainians on adjustments that will produce a plan they can endorse by the time PP speaks with
Lagarde on Monday.
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I just spoke with Danyliuk. Consistent with what we have heard from the Fund, he confirmed that they will be
working through with the IMF the outstanding issues on the plan. I underscored that their plan needed the full
understanding and support of the IMF. He said that he will speak with Lipton tomorrow, and confirmed that Lipton
spoke with Danyliuk earlier today. He agreed to post on the latest developments tomorrow.

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Subject: RE: Privatbank
I just heard from the IMF (imagine they are also in touch with you directly! (b)(6) I but circling back so we all have
the same information). They have asked Danyliuk to work overnight/tomorrow to try to address the key
shortcomings in the letter (most importantly the failure to adequately address related-party lending). They will
speak with him again tomorrow and will keep us posted on their progress.
Key message is unchanged: GOU needs to work closely with the IMF to get this into a good place.
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Think you are both up to date on the latest, but for avoidance of doubt: the IMF is awaiting a response from the
Ukrainians on the shortcomings in the letter; Lipton has a call into Groysman but they have not connected yet;
Danyliuk is due to call me when the senior level meetings break. Key message to the GOU continues to be that they
work closely with the IMF, who are closely engaged.

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Subject: Privatbank
Importance: High
Dear Charles,
On the Bank
* This week, key stakeholders agreed on the way to save the Bank - through the nationalization.
* Respective announcement is expected to be done already on Monday, 19 December 2016.
* We believe that this news will be like a "cold douche", if not a "Black Monday", for many in Ukraine.
* Take some statistics:
As of summer this year, the Bank enlisted 20,5 million depositors and investors
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18,4 million out of those are mere Ukrainians with their savings
The Bank covers 51,4% of Ukrainians - physical persons (people older than 16 years)
It is as many as 56% of legal persons in Ukraine who cooperate with the Bank
Almost two thirds (64% ) of card transactions in Ukraine are also being done via the Bank
The Bank operates 12 thousand payment terminals throughout Ukraine (58% of a total number in the
country)
* Despite all these, and knowing the health of the Bank, we have no time to waste, not any longer, and take the
situation under the governmental control.
* As I told, we do not exclude a dramatic public reaction on this decision. In the first days, this very announcement
would stand as "a Christmas Gift" to Ukraine's opposition and the Russian propaganda.
* To counter both and keep the situation under control, we would need an immediate support of our partners,
including the US.
* Our expectations:
We would need a phone conversation with Vice-president Biden on Monday, 19 December, as a follow-up to
their conversation yesterday ( 15 December)
We would need an immediate IMF assurances in support of the decision of the government and swift
disbursement of the next IMF tranche (US 1.3 billion) to Ukraine already within days after the decision
We would desperately need a strong public word by our US partners and the IMF in support of the decision
on the Bank, with such a rational behind:
* It will help finalize cleaning the banking system of Ukraine
* It will represent another important step in the fight against corruption and de-oligarchisation in Ukraine
* It will assist the government and the Central Bank of Ukraine in keeping the macro-financial stability in Ukraine
under control in the best interests of Ukraine's progress and economic development
Sincerely,
Kostiantyn Yelisieiev
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Subject: FW: Ukrainian Government Takes Aim at Gas Oligarchs, Harms Investment
All:
A look at the proposed strategic gas reserve reported to be under consideration by the Cabinet of
Ministers.
UNCLASSIFIED
MRN: 15 KYIV 118

Date/DTG: Jan 21, 2015 / 211949Z JAN 15
From: AMEMBASSY KYIV
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Reference: A) 14 KYIV 1392
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Subject: Ukrainian Government Takes Aim at Gas Oligarchs, Harms Investment
1. (SBU) Summary: In late 2014, Naftogaz began raising the possibility of U.S. government technical
assistance in creating a strategic gas reserve. At the time, this seemed like a quizzical request, but the
reasoning is becoming clearer - it appears possible this reserve" could be another means to squeeze
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the independent gas industry. The rationale seems to be twofold - to shore up Naftogaz's finances,
while simultaneously hitting the oligarchs behind most of Ukraine's private gas production. The decree
is currently under consideration by the Cabinet of Ministers, and only a bootleg copy has reached the
public, but the industry is already reacting with dismay. JKX Oil and Gas had already suspended its 2015
investment plans, and now three other producers plan to follow suit, if the decree is passed. End
Summary.
2-. (Ssuµn the last quarter of 2014, Naftogaz began discussing the formation of a strategic gas reserve
and reached out to State's Energy Resources Bureau for possible technical assistance. The request
seemed oddly timed, considering the other problems Naftogaz was already facing. The motivation
became clearer this week, as industry representatives contacted Post about the Cabinet of Minister's
proposed decree, Amendments to Some Decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Regarding a
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Strategic Reserve of Natural Gas in Ukraine." Only a bootleg copy is currently in circulation, and even
this is being kept close-hold by private gas producers; however, Econoff was able to view it briefly.
3. (£SU) In its current form, the decree would compel private producers to inject 66% of their
production into the underground gas storage (UGS) system during the heating season, and 100% in
other months. The decree does not specify a target amount at which the gas industry would return to
normal, nor does it provide an exemption from UGS fees. [Comment: Unless the decree is amended
before passage, independent producers would thus pay 55% royalties on the gas they pull from the
ground, pay a fee to inject it into the UGS, and finally pay for the privilege of having their gas
sequestered for an unspecified period of time. End comment.]
4. (SBU) This decree follows several other moves by the Ukrainian government reportedly aimed at
shoring up Naftogaz's finances and making the oligarchs pay their fair share. Ukraine's gas royalties
essentially doubled in August 2014 from 28% up to 55% for wells less than 5,000 meters in depth and
from 15% up to 28% for those deeper than 5,000 meters. (Ref A.) The Cabinet of Ministers then made
Naftogaz the monopoly supplier for most of the country's industrial customers, virtually forcing
independent producers out of the market. (Ref B.) A Kyiv court struck down this monopoly provision,
but it is still in force while Naftogaz appeals the ruling. The appeals court is likely to side with the
independent producers, but the Gou seems intent on dragging out the process through the heating
season. [Note: This has a silver lining, as it may help keep much of Dmytro Firtash's 5+ billion cubic
meters of gas in the UGS as buffer gas, allowing the GoU to fully utilize its own reserves. (Ref C.) End
note.]
5.-f5St:JtJKX Oil and Gas had already announced a freeze on its 2015 investment plans before news of
the proposed strategic gas reserve broke, and several other companies plan to follow suit if the decree
passes. Burisma and GeoAlliance will complete any existing drilling, they said, but will curtail future
exploration and development. A Burisma contact told us he expects a decline in private production in
2015, if the investment climate continues on its current path, in contrast to the growth seen in previous
years. Cub Energy also plans a spending freeze, writing that: "If there is a strategic gas reserve - yes ...
we will stop everything. As it is with the current tax rates, we reduced spending."
6. (SBU) Comment: Ukraine is wrestling with both the ongoing war in Donbas and a desperate shortage
of cash, and it is perhaps understandable that the government has turned to the private gas industry as
a convenient source of cash and natural gas. Moreover, the oligarchs behind several of these
companies are by-and-large a wealthy and unsympathetic lot that has done well in recent years,
although the true extent of their wealth is nearly impossible to estimate. Nevertheless, they represent
the only segment of domestic production actually increasing its annual production. If the GoU
implements a "strategic gas reserve," the recent investment trend will reverse and companies will
begin departing from the market. Burisma, for instance, has already turned its focus to Kazakhstan.
Beyond the damage to existing companies, initiatives such as the proposed strategic gas reserve only
worsen Ukraine's dismal energy investment climate. End comment.
Signature: Pyatt
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Lots moving on all this today including reports of further territory swaps resulting from the successful
Russian assault on the Donetsk airport. Below is the latest from Kolimoskiy
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DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine-This spring, Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, the newly

appointed governor of this region in the country's southeast, called for building a 1,200-mile electric
fence along the border with Russia to keep Moscow's forces out.
Today he has scaled back his plans. After months of fighting that has decimated Ukraine's armed
forces, Mr. Kolomoisky is instead beefing up the defense of his province-far west of where he first
proposed the fence-in case Moscow-backed militants penetrate deeper into Ukraine.
Mr. Kolomoisky is also voicing a new worry: that lines drawn in an uneasy cease-fire this month to
separate government troops from rebels will become pennanent. That, he said, could creating a de
facto rebel state on the border of his province and a so-called frozen conflict like those Russia has
used to put pressure on other fonner Soviet republics.
Mr. Kolomoisky, who used his powerful business empire to fund Ukraine's ragtag army and build
militias that fought along with government troops, said he favors the peace deal hammered out by
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Belarus capital of
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But that is because he sees no alternative. "It's the best we can hope for," Mr. Kolomoisky said in an
interview. "We are fighting for our existence."
Parts of the plan will be hard for Ukrainians to swallow. The plan calls for Ukraine to cede control of
Donetsk International Airport-a highly symbolic act since it was the site of Kiev's first major stand
against Russian-backed rebels, who were repelled with heavy losses when they attacked the airport in
May. Ukrainian troops have hung onto the airport since then, despite daily attacks there.
Fighting has been breaking out on other points of the demarcation line. Mr. Kolomoisky warned that
the separatists could yet push to the west and north to take more Ukrainian territory. He added there
is also a danger that the conflict could become entrenched for a long time. With a border to Russia,
he said, the region could become a "more difficult problem than Transnistria," the Russian-backed
enclave that has hamstrung Moldova's westward ambitions in a frozen conflict for more than two
decades.
Mr. Kolomoisky's curtailed ambitions mirror a wider fatigue in Ukraine with the war after evidence
of a more direct intervention by Russian forces in August. Mr. Poroshenko has noted that the
Ukrainian army lost 65% of its heavy equipment in recent fighting. With military aid refused by the
U.S. and Europe, a cease-fire and negotiations are the only chance Kiev has to regain the territories
of Donetsk and Luhansk.
But the rebels don't appear to be interested in re-integration with Kiev. As a concession to the rebels,
Mr. Poroshenko pushed through a law offering limited autonomy for the Donetsk and Luhansk
regions that rebels want to make an independent state. The law was so controversial that deputies
voted on it in a closed session of parliament in Kiev.
The rebels have largely ignored the concession. They are refusing to take part in national
parliamentary elections next month and are pushing ahead with plans for their own elections in
November that would name officials to their own autonomous government.
Rebels say they have also been negotiating their own gas-supply deals with Moscow, while Kiev
worries Russia could cut off supplies to the rest of Ukraine. Russia, meanwhile, has been sending
purported humanitarian convoys into rebel-held territory without Kiev's permission. It has used
convoy trucks to help dismantle at least two strategic military factories in rebel-held territory and
move their equipment deep into Russia, Western officials say.
Talks between Russia and Ukraine in Minsk initially focused on setting up a buffer zone along the
Russia-Ukraine border that would prevent any more incursions by Russian forces into Ukrainian
territory. Today, however, the talks have focused on a line much further west-the line of contact
between rebel and Ukrainian troops. The latest drafts of the Minsk accord don't mention the Russian
Ukrainian border, which is now effectively controlled by Russia and the rebels.
Kiev last week ordered that border closed, but officials admit there is no way they can enforce the
closure.
Mr. Kolomoisky's support for the war effort made his office in his regional capital a kind of an
alternative headquarters for Ukraine's defense. Huge military maps span the walls of the office of one
of his assistants, marking out the defensive I ines held by Russian troops, and the Ukrainians facing
them.
If the peace agreement holds, Mr. Kolomoisky said, the lines would shift in the coming weeks. The
Ukrainians, he said, would give up the strategically important Donetsk International Airport, where
scores of soldiers have been killed since large-scale fighting broke out in between the Ukrainian
government and Moscow-backed rebels.
In return, the Ukrainian side is to receive a swath of territory to the south of the Donetsk, the capital
of the putative rebel state, the Donetsk Peoples' Republic. "The airport is more important to them
than it is to us," he said, for supplying the Donetsk, the most populous city in rebel-held territory.
Mr. Kolomoisky said that if Ukraine doesn't soon regain control of its border with Russia, rebel-held
territory could soon become similar to the Russian-backed Moldovan breakaway region of
Transnistria, which has issued its own currency and doesn't recognize the Moldovan seat of
government in Chisinau.The demarcation line and the autonomy of the rebel-held territory is meant
to be temporary, he said. But a looming danger, he said, is creeping permanence.
Mr. Kolomoisky said Ukraine would have a much more difficult time than Moldova in luring its
breakaway territory back into the fold, because Ukraine's breakaway state would share a long border
with Russia.
"It's a serious problem," he said. "And how long it will be prolonged-that's hard to predict." Though
there are regular attacks along with a demarcation line, Mr. Kolomoisky said he doesn't expect heavy
fighting in the coming months, because neither side wants the problem of refugees during a war in
the winter, but the danger of a new offensive is likely to grow in the spring.
By that time, he said, he hopes the Ukrainian military will be re-equipped. In Dnipropetrovsk, Mr.
Kolomoisky has started up a production facility for aerial drones that can be used for reconnaissance
and calling in artillery strikes on targets. Each of them has emblazoned on the wing the name of a b
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Ukrayinska Pravda
Barna test. Coalition pretends solidarity
MARIA ZHARTOVSKA ROMAN KRAVETS
December 14, 2015
This conflict became a certain peak of relations between the prime minister's and the
president's teams, where the latter lost, in terms of public.
On Thursday night Poroshenko met Yatsenyuk face to face. According to UP information,

Poroshenko said to Yatsenyuk that he will stay as the Prime Minister till March, after that he
can be replaced. Yatsenyuk agreed and was very happy about it.
After that meeting, there was a meeting of the so called 'strategic seven' - a group of senior
officials, consisting of the president, the prime minister, Boris Lozhkin, Volodymyr
Groysman, Oleksandr Turchynov, Yuriy Lutsenko and Arsen Avakov.
According to informants, the members of 'strategic seven' scheduled the adoption of new
tax code on December. The document will be proposed by the government, the president
will assign the status of urgent issue. After that - the draft budget, and after that - changes
in the government.
Moreover during the meeting the president objected to any reorganization of the
government structure, since the draft of the state budget does not provide for any major
reorganizations or creation of other bodies. The day before Yatsenyuk handed over to
Lozhkin several options of the structure.
There is information that Yatsenyuk will stay till the end of this heating season, - says an
informant in Poroshenko's circle. The same version was mentioned in Yatsenyuk's circle as
well.
You may remember that during Biden's visit the names of Mikheil Saakashvili and
Volodymyr Groysman were mentioned. Then Poroshenko proposed to appoint a foreigner,
however Biden objected - how can the government be managed by a person who doesn't
even speak the language of this country.
There are even such exotic rumors as Carl Bildt, - said Ihor Konenko, Deputy Head of BPP
faction, to journalists on Wednesday.
As per Thursday night the president's circle has got only three candidates left - Volodymyr
Groysman, Boris Lozhkin and Oleksandr Turchynov.
Lozhkin's candidacy for the prime minister was discussed at the PA again last week.
- He is not going to fall for the argument: go there because you have to, - says the
informant in the PA, adding that Lozhkin is too sensitive to his reputation.
According to sources in BPP faction, Groysman doesn't mind heading the government, but
'using someone else'.
What does it mean? Groysman is as much 'the president's man' as Lozhkin or Turchynov.
One of the discussed options was that if Groysman becomes the prime minister, then NF will
get the position of the parliament chairman.
- Before 'Barna happened' votes for Groysman still could be found, and now it is hardly
possible, frankly speaking, - says a member of PP faction.
- There is a clear message from Biden and other partners that there should be no breakup
of the coalition. Given such conditions, probably the best option for balance and
preservation of the coalition is the prime minister from NF - Turchynov. However, the
partners do not understand or accept Turchynov, - says one of the MPs from BPP.
On Friday night NF decided to dot the i's after the incident with Barna, initiating the meeting
with the president. The partners of the BPP faction have many claims.
The members of NF raised questions about attacks to Arseniy Yatsenyuk from the BPP MP
Serhiy Kaplin, Saakashvili who blames Yatsenyuk's circle for corruption, and old associate of
the president, David Zhvania, who recently gave an interview to UP calling Martynenko
'Yatsenyuk's purse'.
Poroshenko didn't like that. He urged the MPs not to discuss persons.
Serhiy Vysotskyi was the one who asked the president about Saakashvili.
He replied to him: it is the president you are talking to. I have a full folder about what
you are saying, and that you participated in informational campaign against me, - tells one
of the MPs who was present there.
Then Poroshenko addressed Mykola Martynenko, praising him for his brave step, - giving up
the MP's authorities (which has not been voted for, by the way). Said, it was the right thing
to do. However, according to Poroshenko, except Martynenko the same step should be
taken by several more MPs.
Martynenko answered: Thank you, Petro Oleksiyovych, but you are making insincere
statements. When it was necessary to defend Maidan, somehow it was me you were calling
to. I didn't see there Akhmetov or Firtash. Now those who were simply observing from a
safe distance are 'home free', and I am the only one who gets the full of it', - says one of
the MPs from NF.
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Subject: Deoligarchisation
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Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader

tackles economy, oligarchs
BY RICHARD BALMFORTH
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Ukraine's Presiclent Petro Poroshenko adclre:sses tho meclia in Kiev in this February 18, 2015 picture provided by the
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(Reuters) - President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire
with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich 'oligarchs' whose influence he
says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe.
But the truce in eastern Ukraine agreed on Feb. 12 is tenuous, with each side accusing
the other of violations and the death toll still rising in a year-long conflict that has killed
more than 6,100, and most people do not see it lasting.
Its collapse could derail Poroshenko's agenda.
Two killings in Kiev of pro-Russian lobbyists have meanwhile evoked the prospect of
political assassinations and handed easy ammunition to critics in Moscow who deride
Poroschenko's commitment to building a new, law-based society.
Poroshenko launched his anti-oligarch campaign after a face-off with banking tycoon
lhor Kolomoisky last month which his supporters say marked a turning point.
The president sacked Kolomoisky as a regional governor after the billionaire staged a
show of force in the capital in reaction to legislation threatening his business interests.
"De-oligarchisation" has since vaulted to the top of the policy agenda, a sign not only of
presidential confidence but also of the vulnerability of Ukraine's oligarchs in an
unpredictable environment of upheaval and conflict.
Parliament has adopted measures to break monopolies in the gas market and bring
order and transparency to a dysfunctional economy, orienting it away from the old post-
Soviet model.
As Kiev discusses financial help and debt relief with the International Monetary Fund
and Western creditors, any moves to clean out Ukraine's political and economic stables
are welcome for Western governments.
The financial empire of Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, has also come under
more scrutiny in recent weeks, with the state prosecutor challenging a sell-off of
electricity-generating company Dniproenergo to his holding DTEK in 2012.
Akhmetov, whose fortune is put at more than $6 billion by Forbes magazine, was
untouchable during the rule of ousted President Viktor Yanukovich. But the conflict in
the east, the base of his operations, has had a huge impact on his steel and other
industrial interests.
"This (anti-oligarch campaign) does not mean that something negative will happen to
certain people. We are not talking about a redistribution of property. But state property
should not be confused with private property."
The campaign is not without risk for Poroshenko, who pledged when elected president
in May 2014 to sell off the Roshen confectionery business on which his own fortune was
built.
"The president wants to sell everything, but the time now is not just bad, but very bad.
Investors don't want to come here," Lozhkin said.
"NEITHER WAR NOR PEACE"
Not only is it unclear how long the truce will hold but relations with Russia, now officially
labeled an "aggressor state" backing the rebels, are going from bad to worse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no ground on Ukraine in a televised phone-in

last Thursday. "We don't choose our partners", he remarked drily when asked about
Poroshenko.
Agreed at talks between Putin, Poroshenko and the French and German leaders in the
Belarussian capital Minsk, the ceasefire replaced an initial deal last September that
failed to hold.
"The situation is neither war nor peace. Nobody is going to deviate from the Minsk
agreements," political analyst Olesya Yakhno said of a pact that outlines a withdrawal of
heavy weapons, prisoner releases and more autonomy for the east.
A widespread suspicion in Kiev is that Putin wants the truce to hold until May 9, when
Moscow stages events commemorating the end of World War Two in Europe.
Afterwards, the Kremlin may hope the rebels can seize more land.
One possible hot spot is around the coastal city of Mariupol, which sits between the
eastern "Donbass" regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russian-annexed Crimea.
Others see separatist pressure building on Avdiyivka, the coke-producing northern

gateway to the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
Many analysts, though, see a gradual escalation of the conflict rather than a full-scale
offensive by Moscow-backed forces which would clearly violate the Minsk agreements
and possibly expose Russia to further sanctions from the West.
The West accuses Russia of sending in troops and heavy weapons to back the rebels.
Moscow denies this.
Under pressure from Western governments whose credit Ukraine badly needs,
Poroshenko has pledged to stick by the Minsk terms.
He is now pushing ideas to amend the constitution to provide a framework for

'decentralization' to the eastern territories. Rebels there sneer at such talk, and are
building internal power structures to give teeth to their proclamations of independent
'people's republics'.
For Kiev, there is no clear route to re-establishing control over lost territory in Crimea or
the Donbass.
"The Minsk agreements foresee a road to reintegration but this is highly improbable and
realizing it is almost Utopian," political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko said.
"Poroshenko understands that we cannot win this war by force of arms. So he has put
the accent on strengthening defense and establishing order on the front lines."
Meanwhile, last week's double shootings in Kiev, apparently by professional "hitmen",

have darkened the investment climate.
Former lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov, 52, and journalist Oles Buzina, 45, a critic of the
"Euromaidan" movement that brought down Yanukovich and who had expressed pro-
Russian views, were shot dead a day apart, in or near their apartment blocks.
The killings followed a spate of mysterious deaths among ex-allies of Yanukovich in

other parts of Ukraine, and Putin accused Kiev of dragging its feet over investigating
murders that were political. Poroshenko said the shootings "play into the hands of our
enemies".
At a meeting of anti-corruption officials last week, Poroshenko was pouchy-eyed as he

laid down the law on the need to break graft at any cost. It was a reminder of the strain
on a man who has told fellow politicians to get used to the idea of sleeping with a
revolver under the pillow.
(Additional reporting by Natalya Zinets and Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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To: Nuland, Victoria J;Heffern, John A;Brink, Bridget A;EUR-EE-Ukraine Pol-DL;INR-
UkraineJ (b)(S) ~entos, Elisabeth Ciaramella, Eric A
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Subject: Kolomoisky
This Politico piece is by far the most entertaining Kolomoisky interview I've ever read - it also has some
news re his August meeting with Yulia in Europe and the relationship with Hontareva/Privat. Worth
reading in full. Two political excerpts copied below
Kolomoisky, meanwhile, is
recruiting as many friends as he
can. He says he enjoys good
relations with the prime minister,
who, he says, is "the best of all of
the viper's nest." He also revealed
he was coordinating moves with
his one-time competitor, the
country's richest man,==
"You know the joke about the

dying Armenian?" he asks. "He
surrounds himself with all his
children and relatives, and he tells
them to take care of the Jews. They
ask him why. 'Because if they
aren't there,' he says, 'they will
come after us next.' Akhmetov and
I need to take care of each other,
because if he goes, they'll come
after me. And if I go, they will
come after him.''
The success of Kolomoisky's

allies in the elections was
certainly a headache for the
president. Overall, however, the
October election results fell short
of being a complete disaster.
Poroshenko avoided the

Armageddon scenarios - a coup,
enforced early parliamentary
elections or Tymoshenko as prime
minister. All scenarios were
possible had his coalition partners
polled as predicted.
Instead, the president now has at

least the prospect of muddling
through - for as long as the he can
control Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk's 82 MPs, and manage
the now public dispute between
Saakashvili and Yatsenyuk.
Meanwhile, it is hard to predict

how the president's relations with
the ever-recalcitrant Kolomoisky
will play out. On the one hand,
there is no obvious knockout
punch for either man. A serious
escalation likely means mutually
assured destruction. And both men
face serious challenges in the
months ahead.
The situation on the eastern front

lines might be calmer than a year
ago, but the winter will still be
tough for the president, with
diversifying security risks, an
increasingly disloyal Parliament
and the potential for social unrest.
A deadline looms for the

controversial parliamentary votes
on decentralization and amnesty
for the east, both of which were
pledged by the president to
Western partners during the
Minsk peace negotiations. The last
time decentralization was
discussed in Parliament August 31,
live grenades were thrown and
four national guardsmen lost their
lives. Poroshenko does not yet
have the 300 votes needed to carry
it through.
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GENEVA, Switzerland - One
evening in late October, the skies
above Dnipropetrovsk whirled
with the sound of helicopters.
Below, armored vehicles and a
500-strong SWAT team moved in
assault formation. Even by
Ukrainian standards, it was
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dragged from his doorstep, the
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seemed as shocked as anyone.
Regardless of what he might have
done, it just wasn't how things
were done in Ukraine.
Korban was airlifted away, first to

Chernihiv, a provincial town north
of Kiev, and then to the capital
itself. His allies immediately cried
foul, claiming political
persecution. Prosecutors
responded, after some delay, with
an official explanation. The
operation was "part of an ongoing
battle with organized criminal
groups," they said. Korban was
responsible for "kidnappings" and
the "misappropriation of
donations given for the frontline."
A self-styled "conflict manager"

who made his name in Ukraine's
ultraviolent 1990s, Korban could
hardly profess moral purity. But
claims of selective justice from a
politically motivated prosecutor's
office rang too true, and Korban's
plight attracted support from
quarters not ordinarily
sympathetic to him.
It was, after all, no secret that

Korban's boss - the spiky, potent
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Kolomoisky was 2,000 kilometers
away at his lakeside apartment in
Geneva. The billionaire slept, as he
says he always sleeps, a full night,
waking untroubled at 10 a.m. He
learned of Korban' s arrest four
hours after the event.
"I live my life to my own rhythm

and take a fatalistic view of
everything," he says. "If things
happen, they happen." Kolomoisky
was not the only person unaware

of the operation. Several members
of the government, including the
prime minister, were deliberately
kept in the dark.
Kolomoisky is a complicated and

provocative character; a complete
contrast to the anodyne bling of
the lobby bar at Geneva's
President Wilson hotel, where this
interview takes place. Almost
without noticing, Kolomoisky
switches between a sharp business
brain and hotheadedness, between
the most courteous European
manners and expletive-laden
tirades.
Behind one shoulder are the

paradisiac vistas of the Wilson
Quay and Lake Geneva, a suitable
backdrop for a Bond movie.
Behind the other is a Christmas
tree constructed entirely from
fluffy, white teddy bears.
Kolomoisky' s rounded build and
white beard, since shaved,
complete the seasonal look.
The oligarch begins in conciliatory

mode. His associate's arrest was
"the predictable result of the
country's war effort," he says.
Everyone was a patriot: Korban
was a patriot, Poroshenko was a
patriot, and Kolomoisky was a

patriot.
Korban had broken some rules. He

said things he shouldn't have said
- probably. He didn't know his
place in "the hierarchy of power"
at a time of war - sure. He was
insubordinate - of course. Then
again, some wounds ran deep.
Korban had spent most of last year
fighting separatism on the
frontline, and there were serious
differences of opinion about
military tactics. He had strong
feelings about the crushing reverse
inflicted at Ilovaisk last summer,
where several hundred Ukrainian
soldiers were wiped out in a
Russian-led ambush.
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In the days following Korban's

arrest, Ukrainian media looked for
signals from Kolomoisky about
how he was intending to play out
the crisis. Several commentators
sensed the oligarch was somehow
attempting to distance himself
from his junior partner. This is his
position today - or initially at

least. Korban was "independent,"
Kolomoisky says, and any idea of
him being "my man" was
"journalistic parrot talk."
Kolomoisky's assertion of being an

entirely neutral bystander does not
hold for too long, however.
Eventually, he accepts the
obvious: The arrest was about
more than just Korban.
Poroshenko had taken a strike at

him - Kolomoisky - he says; and
he had done so because he was the
only oligarch unwilling to cut a
deal. Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor
Pinchuk, Sergei Lyovochkin,
Dmytro Firtash - these other
oligarchs were exactly where the
president wanted them,
dependent.
"Take Firtash in Vienna," he says.

"I've seen him a couple of times in
the last months, and the guy is in a
terrible state, morally defeated, no
fight in him. The only thing he is
thinking about is how to avoid
extradition to the U.S."
Other oligarchs had chosen a path

of cooperation. The Yanukovych-
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example, was now "openly
collaborating" with the president.
He was hoping to become prime

minister - an unlikely
proposition, "but, then again, no
one expected the criminal
Yanukovych to become president
either."
"Tell me," he continues. "Could a

political figure in the U.K. be
arrested if the head of state has a
conflict with a leading
businessman? Could Milibad [sic]
be imprisoned over a battle with
Lakshmi Mittal? Could he?"
Kolomoisky begins to free himself

from any visage of political
correctness. The only difference
between Poroshenko and
Yanukovych, he says, is "a good
education, good English and lack
of a criminal record." Everything
else is the same: "It's the same
blood, the same flesh reincarnated.
IfYanukovych was a lumpen
dictator, Poroshenko is the
educated usurper, slave to his
absolute power, craven to absolute
power."
The last time Kolomoisky and

Poroshenko spoke was August 21.
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In early spring 2014, the very

future of Ukraine was in doubt. A
popular revolution had paralyzed
much of the nation, and had set
in motion an altogether different
wave of terrifying counterreactions
across the east. Russia's "little
green men" began appearing on
the shores of Crimea, separatist

flames broke out across many
eastern cities, and a screwy
Russian military fantasist named
Igor Girkin, aka "Strelkov,"
barricaded himself in a sleepy
town called Slavyansk. It was an
explosive mix that even the most
skilled or resourced authority in
the world would have had trouble
containing.
The new government of Ukraine

was neither.
In the chaos, Kolomoisky seized

the moment. First, he intervened
to disrupt a plan that would have
seen an alternative eastern
republic established in Ukraine's
second city and former capital,
Kharkiv.
Kolomoisky was good friends with

city's main power player, the crafty
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pushed him not to make a deal
with the retreating Yanukovych. At
this point Kernes was unsure of his
allegiances; indeed, he seemed to
be supporting the other side. "I
told him he was risking everything
by betting on the wrong horse,"
Kolomoisky recalls. "He didn't
understand the regime was over."
Kolomoisky persuaded Kernes to

visit him in Geneva, which he did
in late February 2015, after
Yanukovych had fled for Russia.
Unusually, Kernes was in full
listening mode, and agreed with
Kolomoisky that he would return
to Kharkiv and declare himself a
Ukrainian patriot. Slowly, the
separatist storm in Kharkiv - at
one point the most violent in the
land - began to dampen down.
A few days later, Kolomoisky

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Ukraine's second richest man to
high government position was not
the most logical consequence of
the Euromaidan revolution. But
there was such disarray in Kiev,
Turchynov readily agreed to the

proposal.
In quick time, Kolomoisky

delivered on security in
Dnipropetrovsk. There were all
kinds of rumors about how he did
this: marches to the woods,
summary shootings, gang warfare.
Kolomoisky refuses to discuss the
methods used, save for saying that
faiW ere I to disclose what we did",
he says, "Poroshenko would
declare that I was part of an
organized crime group and file
criminal charges tomorrow."
What was important was the

result: "We had a problem, we
dealt with it, and thank God we
did."
Dnipropetrovsk remained in a
febrile situation for many months,
and the job of defending it was not
one for the faint-hearted. Local
security officials repeatedly raised
the threat of a Russian invasion to
the highest level possible. Full
mobilization plans were enacted -
tanks, planes, special forces,
artillery. And Kolomoisky took a
leading role in creating new and
well-equipped territorial
"volunteer" battalions.
The most important thing, says the

oligarch, was the process of
securing the street. "If robbery,
rape, murder and pillage had
become the norm in
Dnipropetrovsk, the people would
have welcomed any strong hand,
Ukrainian or not."
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"If robbery, rape, murder and pillage had become

the norm in Dnipropetrovsk, the people would
have welcomed any strong hand, Ukrainian or
no.t"
Kolomoisky earned
plaudits from friends and
enemies for his decisive action in
those months. Not everyone was
convinced that his investment in
military means was a completely
selfless endeavor, however. Many
began to express concern that the
oligarch had used the war to build
up private armies that he was now
using to settle business and
political scores.
A well-placed governmental source

says that the president became
concerned by what he saw in the
early months of 2015. "We
understood we had to act to
disarm his irregular forces or to
bring them under the direct
control of the army command," the
source said.
The standoff between Poroshenko

and Kolomoisky peaked in March
this year, coinciding exactly with
government attempts to curb the
economic influence of the
oligarchs.
The change that affected

Kolomoisky most directly was a
new law, passed on March 19, that
returned control of notionally
state-controled businesses to the
state. There were several examples
of minority-shareholding oligarchs
exercising full de facto control via
loyal managers installed under the
. .
previous regime.
Kolomoisky' s people were

particularly fond of blocking
undesirable management changes
by not turning up at board
meetings and ruling the meetings
inquorate. The new law made the
tactic impossible by reducing
quorum to 50 percent.
That very evening, Kolomoisky

received news that an ally had
been removed as chief executive of
the oil pipeline
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shareholder. Within a matter of
hours, Kolomoisky presented
himself at the company's Kiev
headquarters with a group of
armed men .
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When asked by journalists what he

was doing there, he subjected
them to a torrent of profanity,
before=== he had come to
protect the company from a
"raider attack" and "Russian
saboteurs."
Kolomoisky made another

controversial appearance March
22, this time at the headquarters of
the oil and gas
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a now-insufficient 43 percent
stake. Kolomoisky claimed, once
again, that he had traveled there to
protect his business interests from
a raider attack. He said that the 40
or 50 men who accompanied him
were, in fact, the company's own
private security forces.
"Poroshenko and his scribblers

peddle this myth about
Kolomoisky working with his
private armies, yet they don't
understand the difference between
an army and a private corporate
security firm," he said.
But the president had seen enough

and, encouraged by American and
European partners, in late March
he asked Kolomoisky to leave his
post as governor of
Dnipropetrovsk. The deal was
simple: Kolomoisky's business
would be left alone if he stopped
attacking the government; and
Poroshenko promised Kolomoisky
that his team would be not be
touched by law enforcement in
connection with anything they may
or may not have done while
defending Dnipropetrovsk.
The agreement did not, however,

resolve the fate of Ihor Palytsa,
Kolomoisky's long-time business
partner, who he had helped install
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his face in. As soon as he leaves his post, I'll beat
him up and down like a dog."
That appointment triggered a
dramatic and public war of words
between Kolomoisky and
Saakashvili. Saakashvili told
journalists Kolomoisky was a
"gangster" and "smuggler."
Kolomoisky told them Saakashvili
was "a dog without a muzzle" and

"a snotty-nosed addict." If nothing
else, Kolomoisky won on linguistic
style.
Kolomoisky says things had

not always been so unfriendly
between the two men. In 2011,
they went yachting together in
Croatia: "He was there with his
favorite, this big-titted economics
minister of his - his lover," says
Kolomoisky. "I even gave him
money for his election campaign in
Georgia."
Just before Saakashvili was

installed in Odessa, the Georgian
traveled to Dnipropetrovsk to visit
him, Kolomoisky says. "He
showered us with praise and his
Georgian toasts, told us how
wonderful we were, how I had
replaced him as Putin's enemy
number one," recalls Kolomoisky.
"Then he went directly to
Poroshenko to ask for Palytsa's
job."
Kolomoisky shows no sign of

forgiving the betrayal. "If I ever
catch sight of him, I tell you, I will
smash his face in. As soon as he
leaves his post, I'll beat him up and
down like a dog," he says.
He looks me in the eye: "Well,

you're from Liverpool. You grew
up on the streets, didn't you?"
***
Poroshenko and Kolomoisky
may have had a deal to stay
out of each other's business,
but politics soon got in the way.
Ahead of October's local elections,
the presidential administration
became increasingly concerned
that Kolomoisky was working to
bring down Poroshenko's
governing coalition and to force
snap parliamentary elections. With
some justification, they feared that
such elections would lead to a
"Balkanization" of the national
Parliament and destroy
Poroshenko's already fading grip
on power.
Kolomoisky says he sees no future

in the current coalition. "And I
don't see any prospects for
Ukraine until it returns to its
proper constitutional set-up
either," he says. "We are supposed
to be a parliamentary-presidential
republic, but Poroshenko has
managed to switch that around."
In the build-up to the election,

Kolomoisky supported an
incongruously broad palette of
political movements - from the

populist, anti-Russian Dill party to
a new, eastern-leaning party called
Renaissance, made up of the more
pragmatic wing ofYanukovych's
old Party of Regions.
"Rather than tell you who I

support, let me tell you who I don't
support," he says. "I don't support
Poroshenko's bloc, I don't support
the Opposition Bloc, and I don't
support Yulia Tymoshenko" - the
former prime minister.
The presidential administration

was, in fact, working on the
assumption Kolomoisky was
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or president still, though it's true that she isn't
getting any younger."
The prospect of a grand anti-
Poroshenko coalition could easily
have been a strong enough bond to
unite them. Tymoshenko was still
the most assured politician in the
land: No one matches her populist

touch or hunger for power. And
Poroshenko had reason enough to
fear her. When, as prime minister,
Tymoshenko plotted to overthrow
President Yushchenko in 2006,
Poroshenko was the man chairing
the country's National Security
and Defense Council.
Tymoshenko has denied ever

making contact with Kolomoisky
in the run up to the elections, but
Kolomoisky insists the two did, in
fact, meet in Europe in August.
"We talked about Ukraine, about

her ambitions," he says. A
conversation about assisting her
did not progress far because
Tymoshenko would not leave the
coalition: "I couldn't support her
because she is a prostitute. You
can't just be a little bit pregnant.
You can't pretend you are in
opposition and be in government
at the same time." He pauses,
smiles. "It's immoral."
In the end, Tymoshenko polled 13

percent - not as much as
anticipated, but a solid enough
launchpad for another stab at the
presidency down the line. "It was a
warm-up," says Kolomoisky. "She
has every chance to become prime
minister or president still, though
it's true that she isn't getting any

younger."
Kolomoisky's own parties polled

solidly right across the country.
And in a fiercely contested second
round run-off, his close
associate Borys Fiktov was elected
mayor of Dnipropetrovsk.
***
A pro-Russian demonstrator holds up a

sign reading "Kolomoisky must die!" during
an attack on a Privatbank branch in
Donetsk, Ukraine in April 2014. Some 300
masked pro-Russian militants wielding

baseball bats attacked a branch of the
bank owned by the oligarch after he voiced
criticism of Moscow. Photo by Alexander
Khudoteply/Agence France-Presse via
Getty Images
The success of Kolomoisky's

allies in the elections was
certainly a headache for the
president. Overall, however, the
October election results fell short
of being a complete disaster.
Poroshenko avoided the

Armageddon scenarios - a coup,
enforced early parliamentary
elections or Tymoshenko as prime
minister. All scenarios were
possible had his coalition partners
polled as predicted.
Instead, the president now has at

least the prospect of muddling
through - for as long as the he can
control Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk's 82 MPs, and manage
the now public dispute between
Saakashvili and Yatsenyuk.
Meanwhile, it is hard to predict

how the president's relations with
the ever-recalcitrant Kolomoisky
will play out. On the one hand,
there is no obvious knockout
punch for either man. A serious
escalation likely means mutually
assured destruction. And both men

face serious challenges in the
months ahead.
The situation on the eastern front

lines might be calmer than a year
ago, but the winter will still be
tough for the president, with
diversifying security risks, an
increasingly disloyal Parliament
and the potential for social unrest.
A deadline looms for the

controversial parliamentary votes
on decentralization and amnesty
for the east, both of which were
pledged by the president to
Western partners during the
Minsk peace negotiations. The last
time decentralization was
discussed in Parliament August 31,
live grenades were thrown and
four national guardsmen lost their
lives. Poroshenko does not yet
have the 300 votes needed to carry
it through.
Equally unhelpful is the fact that

the IMF has delayed approving a
final tranche of its agreed 2015
loan over concerns that Ukraine
will have problems balancing its
budget.
Kolomoisky's businesses, on the

other hand, are not looking quite
as formidable as they once were.
Minority-owned Ukrnafta still

owes €320 million to the taxman
(Kolomoisky says the company is
owed at least as much by others).
His market-leading PrivatBank
bank has also attracted the
attention of the head of Ukrainian
Central Bank, Valeria Gontareva,
who has asserted the bank might
need significant recapitalization.
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"This clever f-ing Gontareva
comes along to a hugely successful
bank - one that's nearly 25 years
old - and says just everything that
has happened over the past 20
years was terrible," he says. "The
problem is that one day she talks
about 128 billion hryrvina [€5.1
billion] and then the next she says,
no, it's 15 billion [€602 million].
And today she has her tongue
stuck up her arse because she
doesn't know what to say next."
Such fighting talk aside, it does,

however, seem as though both
sides have pulled back from all-out
war. An emergency peace process
has begun, with the head of
Poroshenko's
administration, ~~~==~
placed in charge of direct
communication with Kolomoisky
and his associates.
With a long history of doing

business with all of the main
players in Ukraine, Lozhkin is
considered someone naturally
suited to compromise. Kolomoisky
confirms he talked to him on a
daily basis. ''I'm not fighting with
anyone there, I've done no harm to
anyone and I try to find dialogue
with everyone," he says.
Kolomoisky, meanwhile, is
recruiting as many friends as he
can. He says he enjoys good
relations with the prime minister,
who, he says, is "the best of all of
the viper's nest." He also revealed
he was coordinating moves with
his one-time competitor, the
country's richest man,=-=:::=
"You know the joke about the

dying Armenian?" he asks. "He
surrounds himself with all his
children and relatives, and he tells
them to take care of the Jews. They
ask him why. 'Because if they
aren't there,' he says, 'they will
come after us next.' Akhmetov and
I need to take care of each other,
because if he goes, they'll come
after me. And if I go, they will
come after him."
Double or bust, the oligarch thus

presents the president with a real
dilemma: Continue to target
Kolomoisky, and you face a
broader fight you just might not
Will.
The sensible money would be on

the Ukrainian oligarchs - and
Kolomoisky - thriving for some
time to come.
76
Oliver Carroll is an
independent_iournolist covering
Eastern Europe. A founding editor
of Russian Esquire and former
editor in chief of OpenDemocracy
Russia, Oliver has written
extensively on the ongoing crisis
in Ukraine. He tweets at
@olliecarroll
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Sent: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:26:46 +0200
To: Kyiv, Sitrep;Carpenter, Michael
Subject: Fw: NV(print): Shocking Shakin
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From: lbi@lbicompany.com.ua
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 2:42 PM
To: Kyiv, Media Alerts
Subject: NV(print): Shocking Shakin
Novoye Vremya (print)
Shocking Shokin
November 27, 2015 (print)
The Prosecutor General, Viktor Shakin, became a shield for corrupt officials instead of being
a sword of vengeance on them.
'The claims against Shakin are very simple: we do not see any activities at all from his side
with regards to people who are landmark in corruption movement', - explains Viktor
Chumak, one of those who made a commotion in BPP.
Nevertheless, neither the president's faction, nor Poroshenko himself are eager to dismiss
the head of Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (Heneralna Prokuratura Ukrainy, HPU).
Though, Shakin hampers the fight against corruption at his own department.
The lost hope
Initially, there were high hopes for the experienced prosecution officer, says Serhiy
Leshchenko, the MP from BPP. 'I expected that he will act without considering the political
advisability', - admits Leshchenko.
However, it didn't happen. The case against Yefremov was brought to court, however, there
was not enough evidence. As a result, the EU started lifting the sanctions against
Yanukovych's affiliates, which were imposed by the Europeans immediately after
Euromaidan, says Sobolev.
Maidan didn't live to see it
Eugenia Zakrevska, lawyer of Nebesna Sotnia, specifies that HPU is playing a double game.
The direct investigation of the case, led by Serhiy Horbatyuk, is working - they already
have some results. But HPU's management and Shakin hamper the progress.
Loyal to 'his guys'
The Prosecutor General didn't come to fight against corruption even at his own department.
The operation was prepared by Shokin's deputies - David Sakvarelidze and Vitaliy Kaska.
However, after the much talked-of operation, its organizers were pressed. Even criminal
cases were started against them, says Kasko.
Kasko explains: Korniets is closely acquainted with Shakin - he was even close to
appointment to the position of Prosecutor of Kyiv region. Kasko is sure that Shakin will do
his best to destroy the case of diamond prosecutors, since for him it is a 'personal matter'
Another obstacle
Kasko remembers that after the operation concerning diamond prosecutors, he was given a
department for investigations of important corruption cases. However, as soon as his team
started getting to high officials, the Prosecutor General issued a resolution, changing the
investigation authority and handing over the case to the other department.
Kasko does not name those who were 'worked on' by his employees. But the activities of his
deputy already annoyed Shakin.
Leshchenko is not that delicate. He reminds that the Head of HPU is holding back the
investigation of schemes of the ex- Head of Kyiv State Regional Administration, Vira
Ulianchenko.
Also, HPU is little interested in the case started in Switzerland against Mykola Martynenko,
associate of the Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, deputy head of Narodnyi Front's faction.
HPU admitted that Swiss prosecution had sent three requests for provision of international
legal assistance in this case. HPU answered to Swiss colleagues only in October, thought, it
preferred not to reveal the content. According to Leshchenko, there are no proceedings
against Martynenko in Ukraine.
HPU tried to demonstrate that it is working intensely with first-rank corruptionists, by

arrests of opponents to the governments - the MP from Radical Party, Ihor Mosiichuk, and
the associate of the ex- governor and billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Karban.
However, in the end HPU received heavy criticism and accusations of persecution of political
opponents, explains Sobolev.
Obstacles on the way to the EU
Shakin also endangered Ukraine's chances to get the visa-free regime with the EU.
'The only thing which matters for us is that anti-corruption prosecution should be really
independent. It's a matter of trust', - explains one of European diplomats, on condition of
anonymity. If European officials have no trust to the competition results, they will wait for
working results of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. And only when they have made sure
it is efficient, they will be able to recommend waiver of visa regime. 'It can take a lot of
time', - adds the diplomat.
President's prosecutor
The Prosecutor General himself left without reply NV's request to comment his own
activities.
Kasko used to receive through Shakin the 'notes' from Ihor Kononenko, who is called a grey
cardinal of Poroshenko. 'Kononenko wanted HPU to take certain position in certain cases, -
says the Deputy Prosecutor. - This position was written in those 'notes'. He says he ignored
such proposals.
These facts as well as other evidence make Leshchenko draw a harsh conclusion: 'He
[Shakin] appeared to be Poroshenko's puppet, and I'm not afraid to talk about it'.
Sobolev is sure that HPU should be headed by a candidate who will not totally depend on
the president. However, experts do not believe in such possibility. 'Prosecutor's Office is a
way to influence the political process in Ukraine', - Fesenko draws a line.
With best regards,

LBJ Team
www.lbicompany.com.ua
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Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:42:08 +0300
To: Nuland, Victoria J;Jones, Paul W;Rubin, Eric S;Finer, Jonathan J'-1_ _ _(_b)(_6)_ ______,
Subject: Poroshenko
More on Petra's woes(bJ( 5> He has announced that if

elected he'll sell the company. In this regard saw some new IRI polling numbers today. Head to head he
defeats Yulia in a landslide.
Bitter times for chocolate factory in Russia-Ukraine crisis
« 1 of 7 »
By Elizabeth Piper
LIPETSK, Russia (Reuters) - After three years of court cases involving authorities and
competitors, Taisiya Voronina thought she had seen everything in Russia's rough and
tumble business environment.
That was until a final ruling this month sent dozens of armed police and plainclothes
officials through the Ukrainian owned chocolate factory she manages in southern
Russia.
Her factory now shuttered, Voronina, who wants little to do with politics, fears she may
become another victim in a struggle for influence between Russia and the West in
Ukraine.
Dozens of men searched her office, took away armfuls of documents and questioned
the general director for most of the night, asking questions she said had little to do with
the criminal case which has been opened against her - a case she rejects.
She is charged with conspiring with unnamed others to use a registered trademark
illegally to "extract additional profits". Her factory workers in the town of Lipetsk suspect
they know better.
"It's because of Ukraine," they whisper, blaming the lack of work on the factory's
owners, the company Roshen and its billionaire boss, Petro Poroshenko, front-runner in
Ukraine's presidential election.
With work now stopped and the factory's accounts frozen, Ukraine has called the move
"a dangerous precedent", a possible prelude to the confiscation of Ukrainian businesses
in Russia as punishment for pursuing closer ties with the West.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, denies any political
connection to the case in Lipetsk, saying it is "unjust to say that certain selective
measures are undertaken against certain companies".
"Russia is interested in maintaining an atmosphere of trust to its investment and
business climate," he said.
But critics say Russia, no stranger to using its economic muscle for geopolitical ends,
has squeezed assets controlled by businessmen close to Ukraine's new rulers, focusing
on people like 'Chocolate King' Poroshenko, who could win a May 25 presidential
election.
In retaliation, Ukraine has vowed to file compensation claims for assets lost to Russia in
Crimea, signaling it could also confiscate Russian assets if not satisfied - a move that
would fire up what for now is a simmering economic feud.
In what has become the worst standoff in relations between the East and West since
the Cold War, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine after the Ukrainian parliament
removed Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich as president and set a course for closer
integration with the West.
The new court case is a body blow to a woman who has spent the last 45 years raising
the factory in the centre of Lipetsk, a dusty city 440 km (275 miles) southeast of
Moscow, "as if it were my child".
"We cannot understand what is happening and why," Voronina said in an interview,
sitting behind a large desk in an office now restored to its original orderliness after
plainclothes men arrived on March 19 to search for documents.
COURT CASES, BANS
Although she does not understand why anyone would want to close a profitable factory
and make about 2,000 workers redundant, Voronina says her business has been under
scrutiny for some time.
Last year, Russia's consumer watchdog banned imports of Roshen sweets from
Ukraine, citing health concerns.
In 2010, a competitor brought a court case against the business for using a trademark it
had the rights to - a silhouette of a swallow made famous on Soviet-era sweets.
Sometimes the decisions went in her favor, sometimes not.
On March 18, the court ruled against the factory in the trademark case. The next day,
the men in plainclothes arrived, backed by armed riot police. The business's accounts
were frozen and workers were told to leave.
"We are a Russian confectionary producer using foreign capital. Our shares were
acquired by a Ukrainian company, it was a market transaction," she said, adding that
her investors had never asked for dividends, happy to plough profits back into the
company to employ 2,000 workers from 300 in Soviet times.
After becoming part of the Roshen empire at the end of 2001, Voronina said production
leapt from about 6,000 tonnes in Soviet times to 122,000 tonnes of confectionary in
2013.
"I cannot say anything bad about our investors ... they are our partners, they are our
owners and they have never done anything bad to us. They have just developed this
factory."
Roshen declined to comment further on the situation in Lipetsk, saying only that the
factory was closed.
But for the women selling chocolates in a kiosk outside the factory gates, the reason for
the closure is obvious. Asked whether they sold Roshen chocolates, the answer was a
firm "No".
"You won't find those chocolates here, they're Ukrainian," one of the vendors said.
Mikhail Podchipayev, a worker from the factory, agreed.
"It's all about Maidan," he said, referring to the square in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev,
where the anti-government protests that resulted in Yanukovich's removal began more
than four months ago.
The factory had been one of the most popular employers in this city of just over half a
million people, but the trickle of workers who enter the building now gossip about
rumors of how the management paid Ukrainians more money and were cheating the
Russians. Some feel embarrassed to work for Ukrainians, swept up in a wave of
Russian patriotism since Moscow annexed Crimea.
"There were people working here without the right documents," said one worker, a
Croat who declined to give his name. "Poroshenko should have run a clean operation."
Voronina denies all the charges but the reputation of the factory she spent years
building is in jeopardy, the latest victim of increasing hostility between Russia and
Ukraine, once called a brotherly nation by President Vladimir Putin.
PRIVATBANK HIT
The factory is not alone.
Russia has put the Moscow subsidiary of Ukraine's Privatbank under temporary
administration, a move its chairman said was the result of "political tensions in relations"
but which the central bank says was aimed at preventing its bankruptcy.
Privatbank, Ukraine's largest bank, is part of Privat group, co-founded and co-owned by
billionaire businessman Igor Kolomoisky, who was appointed governor of the industrial
Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine a month ago.
Called "a unique imposter" by Putin, Kolomoisky has kept silent over the temporary
administration but some critics say Russia's behavior is part of a strategy to make it as
difficult as possible for Ukraine to turn around its economy.
A spokesman for Russia's economy ministry said last week Moscow has "the right to
use selective protective measures against Ukraine if it creates a free trade zone with a
third government, or with the European Union."
On the brink of bankruptcy, Ukraine has won a financial lifeline worth $14-18 billion from
the International Monetary Fund, taking the former Soviet state directly out of Russia's
sphere of influence.
Bans and trade restrictions are ready weapons. On March 20, Russian border guards
stepped up checks on some goods entering from Ukraine in what officials said were
measures to prevent arms trafficking and stop the use of fake documentation.
The West has praised Ukraine for showing restraint to economic and military pressure
from Russia, which has massed thousands of troops at the border.
But Kiev is not biding its time. It will file compensation claims with international courts
and is currently assessing the value of Russian state property in Ukraine, said Justice
Minister Pavel Petrenko.
Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said the annexation of Crimea could cost Ukraine
"hundreds of billions of dollars".
"Russia can be calm. She will in the shortest time possible receive from international
courts claims from the Ukrainian state," he said.
For Voronina, it suggests that her problems at the factory will not disappear any time
soon.
"This kind of case could go on for a long time and the factory just stands still," she said,
clutching the documents containing the indictment which she calls "absurd".
"I just cannot tell what will happen next. We have money but cannot use it ... We believe
this is a classic scheme to force bankruptcy."
(Additional reporting by Natalia Zinets in Kiev and Alexei Anishchuk, editing by Timothy
Heritage and Janet McBride) nl5N0MO3GX

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Subject: Euromaidan Protest Sitrep - Monday, January 20, 08:45
(SBU) Euromaidan Protest Situation Report: Tuesday, Jan 21- 08:45
***This is an uncleared product. Some information may be unconfirmed.***
Summary: Clashes on Hrushevskoho Street near Dynamo stadium continue, with little ground gained by
either side during the night. Berkut destroyed a protester-erected barricade on Hrushevskoho and the
protesters' trebuchet. Approximately 2000 security forces and several hundred protesters are present,
with approximately SO protesters actively engaging the security forces, with both sides using weapons
and projectiles. Hostilities paused briefly as priests conducted a religious service between the two
groups. Protests on the Maidan remain peaceful despite persistent rumors of an imminent sweep of the
Maidan by security forces. Busloads of titushky are arriving in Kyiv on a so-called "titushky safari,"
damaging the cars of suspected protesters and moving other cars to block traffic. Automaidan and
other protesters caught some of the titushky and interrogated them during a live "press conference"
broadcast online. Euromaidan leader lhor Lutsenko was kidnapped from a Kyiv hospital by five unknown
assailants. Mobile phone companies sent a message to subscribers whose phones were located in the
vicinity of the Hrushevskoho conflict, identifying them as riot participants. End Summary.
Protest Activity
• Euromaidan leader lhor Lutsenko was kidnapped from a Kyiv hospital at approximately 05:00 by
five unknown assailants. Activists suspect the State Security Service (SBU) is behind the
kidnapping.
• Protests continue on Hrushevskoho, with both sides using weapons and projectiles. GOU forces
have adopted a defensive posture and greatly outnumber protesters at present.
• Priests conducted a religious service at approximately 07:00 between the two sides, halting
hostilities briefly.
• Protesters plan a march for 08:30 this morning in support of seven students of the National
Theater University detained while walking back from the Maidan.
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• Protesters in Rivne continue to block the exit of a Berkut base there to prevent the
transportation of reinforcements to Kyiv. Social media report the same at various MIA barracks
throughout the country, with some parents blockading their own sons inside to prevent them
from being sent to Kyiv.
• Mobile phone companies Kyivstar and MTS sent an SMS message of intimidation to subscribers
whose phones were located in the vicinity of Hurshevskoho. The message reads: "Dear
subscriber, you are registered as a member of the riots."
Government Activity
• Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka told the press that the protests have gone beyond
"hooliganism" and now constitute a "national security threat."
• Social media and on line newspapers report a steady stream of buses filled with titushky arriving
in Kyiv. The titushky are roaming the city in groups ranging from five people to several hundred,
moving cars to block streets and reportedly damaging the cars of suspected protesters. Some
are armed with sticks and hammers. Some scuffles between titushky and protesters have been
reported throughout the city.
• Automaidan activists apprehended a group of 10 titushky and took them to the TUB for
interrogation, which was broadcast live online. The titushky said they had been paid up to $30
to come to Kyiv and "smash cars, block roads, cause disorder, and start fights."
• Media sites have begun agglomerating twitter posts about the location of titushky groups,
tracking the so-called "titushky safari."
• Social media report that police are stationed around the clock in hospitals and are arresting
those who come in with trauma wounds.
• Media report that military tents are being erected on the outskirts of Kyiv to house MIA
reinforcements.
Political Developments
• Former Interior Ministery Yuriy Lutsenko told the press that no progress was made in
negotiations with the GOU, as the GOU did not offer a response to protester demands.
• The mayor of lvano-Frankivsk told the press he will not enforce the January 16 laws passed by
the Rada, adding that he is "not afraid of prison."
• UDAR leader Vitaliy Klychko said he plans to meet again today with President Yanukovych to
repeat the opposition's demands after Yanukovych did not participate in talks with the
opposition.
• Klychko also told the press that the titushky have been sent to Kyiv to cause further havoc and
allow President Yanukovych to declare martial law.
External Activity
• Polish FM Radek Sikorski told the press that not a single EU FM asked to impose sanctions on
the GOU during the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Brussels yesterday evening.
• Freedom House president David Kramer issued a new call for sanctions against Ukrainian
officials.
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement calling for restraint from all sides.
SBU
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Subject: (SBU) Euromaidan Protest Sitrep #43 - Thursday (December 12) - 06:00
**This is an uncleared Sitrep. Some information may be unconfirmed.**
Summary: Well over 15,000 people continue festively gathering on Independence Square (Maidan) as
dawn breaks. Earlier warnings by Yuriy Lutsenko and Vitaliy Klychko to expect possible police action
against EuroMaidan protesters this morning thankfully proved needless. Embassy observers reported a
light security force presence and no signs of Interior Ministry forces staging in anticipation of
action. Protesters continued reinforcing their renewed barricades around the Maidan as they also
began work improving sanitary conditions. Spokesperson Psaki's comments that the United States may
consider sanctions have begun to gain traction in traditional and social media. End Summary.
Protest Activity
• Through the night, the number of protesters on the Maidan lessened, from a peak of near
50,000 before midnight to approximately 15,000 near 04:00.
• Protester barricades, replaced over the course of the day, continued to be reinforced through
the night. Embassy observers report barricade walls of park benches, dumpsters, snow, ice, and
rebar as high as 15' in some areas.
• Addressing the Maidan before midnight, Lutsenko called on Interior and Defense Ministry
officers to side with the people.
• Embassy observers noted a large presence of approximately S,OOO "titushky" in the pro-
government meeting camp near the Rada at 01:00.
• Slightly after 02:00, a group of SO opposition protesters moved towards the pro-government
encampment near the Rada, however conflict between the two groups was minimal.
External Activity
• Traditional and social media in Ukraine have picked up DOS Spokesperson Jen Psaki's
comments that, "sanctions are on the table."
• Media have also reported Senator McCain's press statement: "we will demand the
consequences of crimes against protesters in Kiev."
• Ukrainian media are reporting European Parliament President Martin Schulz met with
representatives of Ukrainian opposition and civil society December 11.
• The European Parliament is scheduled December 12 to consider a resolution on the future of
the Eastern Partnership. Ukrainian media speculate the resolution will contain provisions to
expedite progress towards a visa free regime, express solidarity with the EuroMaidan
movement, and authorize a high level delegation to facilitate a resolution to the current crisis.
• Batkivshchyna MP Hennady Moskal claimed the General Prosecutor's Office is actively seeking
votes within the Rada to deprive 11 opposition leaders of their immunity as MPs.
• Former Party of Regions MP Taras Cholnovil December 11 renounced his affiliation with the
party from the main stage on the Maidan, calling on other party members to follow suit. He also
apologized for siding with the regime.
• The tentative schedule for the remaining appeal cases for the "Bankova 11" (the protesters
arrested following clashes at the Presidential Administration on December 1):
o 12 December 11:40 - Oleksandr Ostashchenko, 14:00 - Oleg Matyash;
o 13 December 10:00 - Valeriy Garaguts, 11:00 - Roman Bilenkyi.
• A campaign gathering signatures in support of the impeachment of President Yanukovych can
be found at avaaz.org. Launched on November 29, the petition currently has over 70,000
signatures.
Regional Activity
• Sumy (northeastern Ukraine) media report students of Sumy State and Pedagogical Universities
have demanded a meeting with the Sumy regional Governor Yuriy Chmyr December 12. The
group demands representatives of the Party of Regions in Sumy government burn their party
membership cards in public and refuse "to participate in crimes against the Ukrainian nation"
(source: www.dancor.sumy.ua).
• Media report that six buses of opposition protesters departed Ternopil (western Ukraine) for
Kyiv December 11; more vehicles are planned to depart December 12. Ternopil parliamentary
deputies have asked traffic police not to prevent the buses from reaching Kyiv. Ternopil mayor
Serhiy Nadal said that the city will create a People's Deputies' Commission to defend the human
rights of Ternopil ob last citizens in court.
• SO of 114 total deputies of the lvano-Frankivsk Oblast Rada have departed for Kyiv and plan to
hold their next city council plenary meeting on the Maidan December 13 at 11:00. The stated
goal of the meeting is a vote to dismiss the head of the lvano-Frankivsk Oblast state
administration, Vasyl Chudnov (Party of Regions).
• 4,000 students in Lviv picketed the regional prosecutor general's office, demanding a meeting
with regional prosecutor Oleh Vasylenko to demand the release of activists arrested in Kyiv.
Vasylenko did not meet with the students.
• The Crimean Parliament issued a statement December 11 calling on Crimean people to unite
and fight back against the "Maidan-ization" of the country and anti-government forces in Kyiv.
• Late in the evening of December 11, four buses of Yanukovych supporters departed the Party of
Region's headquarters in Mykolayiv for Kyiv. Recall that the Party of Regions has called for a
meeting of over 200,000 "supporters of Yanukovych" on December 15.
• Odesa Oblast Governor Nikolay Skoryk, in an official address, condemned the protests in Kyiv
which "threaten the devaluation of the national currency" and carry budget implications.
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Sent: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:16:05 -0500
To: Wade, David E;Sherman, Wendy R;Burns, William J;Finer, Jonathan J
Subject: Re: Ukraine today - violence both sides
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From: Wade, David E

Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 2:54 PM
To: Nuland, Victoria J; Sherman, Wendy R; Burns, William J; Finer, Jonathan J
Thanks Toria. Makes sense to me.

Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 02:53 PM
To: Wade, David E; Sherman, Wendy R; Burns, William J; Finer, Jonathan J
He was in a perfect place Friday vis the legislation -- it was outrageous, and perpetrated by a
small group around Yanu. That was a tactical hit on one aspect of the prob.
As we move forward, he'll likely have to comment on the street sitch as well, and in that
context he will need to reiterate msg that violence on any side is unacceptable -- he's said it
before! (b)(S) I (fyi, I did that repeatedly at Wed SFRC hearing,
as has Pyatt.l(b)(5 l
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Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:46 AM
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Thanks Toria.l (b)(5)
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Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:42 AM
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Cc: Wade, David E; Sherman, Wendy R; Burns, William J; Fried, Daniel; Jones, Paul W; Rubin, Eric S;
Psaki, Jennifer R
Subject: Ukraine today - violence both sides
5, D, P family,
See sitrep below! (b)(S) l10Ok on Maidan today, peaceful until some
started moving to the Parliament, and far-right oppo clashed violently w police no angels here.
This is one of many dangers in the period ahead everyone is extremely angry, and oppo
leadership cannot control all the factions.
lnteragency gathers Tues am at Donfried (b)(5)

(b)(5) not easy. We'll be back to you with our
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Subject: Euromaidan Protest Sitrep - Sunday, January 19, 18:00
--f5-S8t Euromaidan Protest Situation Report: Friday, Jan 19 -18:00
Summary: Incidents of violence have broken out between some protestors and police. End summary.
Opposition and protest leaders held a large demonstration in downtown Kyiv December 19. Embassy
observers estimated that 100,000 people participated in the demonstration. Many protestors wore
helmets and face masks despite legislation adopted December 16 barring it. Police had a visible
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presence on the street and set up checkpoints where they filmed many protestors walking to the
demonstration.
The opposition organized demonstration was peaceful. Opposition leaders called for an immediate
presidential election, pledged to organize a people's rada (parliament), and proposed drafting a new
constitution. Some protestors heckled opposition leaders, and demanded that they select a single leader
for the protest movement. Batkivshchyna leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk declared that there is one leader --
the Ukrainian people.
When the demonstration ended, some leaders of AutoMaidan (a movement that has conducted car
rallies and large demonstrations at top GOU officials' homes in recent weeks) called on protestors to
move to the Rada (parliament) and demand that lawmakers return to work and overturn controversial
legislation that was illegally adopted last week. Opposition contacts told us that they tried to intervene
and stop the AutoMaidan movement and that AutoMaidan's leadership splintered over the issue.
Police blocked AutoMaidan activists as they moved toward the Rada. According to Embassy contacts,
representatives of the far-right Pravy Sektor (not/not affiliated with the Svoboda party) began clashing
with police and attempted to break through police barricades. (N.B. Pravy Sektor is responsible for
instigating clashes with police on December 1 at the Presidential Administration and January 10-11 at a
Kyiv court.) Police and far-right protestors reportedly used tear gas and smoke bombs. Protestors threw
bricks and molotov cocktails at police, who responded with tear gas grenades. Protestors took control of
police buses and set one on fire. Police attempted to bring in trucks with water cannons, but protestors
attempted to block the cannons with their vehicles. There are reports of injuries on both sides of the
clashes. UDAR leader Vitaliy Klychko intervened twice and urged protestors to end the violence. He also
called on the police to join the protests.
Post will continue to monitor and provide updates.
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Subject: Euromaidan Protest Sitrep - Friday, January 17, 14:45
{SBtfy'Euromaidan Protest Situation Report: Friday, Jan 17 - 14:45
Summary: Protesters and members of the opposition decried yesterday's legislation limiting human
rights and freedom of speech and assembly, but protests remained peaceful in Kyiv. President
Yanukovych signed five of the bills into law last night, including bill #3879 which deals with NG Os and
civil liberties. The international community widely condemned the laws. UDAR MP Maria lonova was
hospitalized with a concussion after being hit on the head by PoR MP Volodymyr Malyshev at
yesterday's Rada session. Yuriy Lutsenko and Tetyana Chornovol were both released from the hospital.
Former Batkivshchyna MP Anatoliy Hrytsenko resigned from the Rada in response to the passage of the
laws yesterday. Former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko called on Ukrainians to respond urgently to
Yanukovych's "new dictatorship." Serhiy Poyarkov, a leader of automaidan, had his license suspended
for six months by a Kyiv court, while SO anti-Maidan protesters picketed outside the house of another
automaidan leader. End Summary.
Protest Activity
• Anti-automaidan protesters surrounded a small convoy of automaidan cars near European
square, one block from the Maidan.
• Some Maidan protesters took to wearing colanders and other kitchen paraphernalia on their
heads in response to the law passed yesterday banning the wearing of helmets during protests
(photo attached).
• Yuriy Lutsenko and Tetyana Chornovol were both released from the hospital.
Government Activity
• President Yanukovych signed five of the bills passed yesterday. Rada Speaker Rybak says he has
passed the rest of the bills to the president for his signature.
• President Yanukovych and First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov canceled their plans to
participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos after the Rada passed the suite of laws
yesterday. FM Kozhara will represent the GOU.
• A Kyiv court rejected Batkivshchyna's request for police to return the servers taken from
Batkivshchyna headquarters during a raid December 9.
• Serhiy Poyarkov, a leader of automaidan, had his license suspended for six months by a Kyiv
court, while SO anti-Maidan protesters picketed outside the house of another automaidan
leader.
• Former Batkivshchyna MP Anatoliy Hrytsenko resigned from the Rada in response to the
passage of the laws yesterday.
• Former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko called on Ukrainians to respond urgently to
Yanukovych's "new dictatorship."
• UDAR MP Maria lonova was hospitalized with a concussion after being hit on the head by PoR
MP Volodymyr Malyshev at yesterday's Rada session.
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External Activity
• Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt said that the laws passed yesterday "work against Ukraine's
independence" and that there is no more "business as usual" with Kyiv.
• The Polish Foreign Minister criticized the "ominous events" in the Rada, while the Lithuanian
Foreign Minister said that the Rada laws do not "promote democracy." In addition, other EU
countries expressed similar sentiments.
• NGOs such as Reporters without Borders and the Renaissance Foundation also panned the
laws, saying they "open doors to repression against Ukrainian citizens."
-sBY--
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Sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:35:24 -0400
To: 'Katie Dodge Rosemont Seneca Partners'
Cc: Summers, Mattj~(b_l(5_l- - - ~
Subject: RE: Tuesday's Class for Georgetown
Of course. I just need make, model, license plate and driver info for the cars.
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 12:32 PM
To: l(b)(G) I
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Subject: Re: Tuesday's Class for Georgetown
Hi there, are parking spaces still available to be reserved for tomorrow's class? We may take you
up in it if 1 or 2 can be reserved. Thanks.
-- Katie Dodge
Rosemont Seneca Partners
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On Mar 14, 2014, at 5:02 PM, l(b)(5 l [Clstate.gov> wrote:
Katie,
I know we are trying to lock in time and speaker, but in terms of logistics we will have a
protocol POC greet Hunter Biden and the class on C street and escort to the room. Could
you send me a list of everyone attending (no other personal info needed)? Also, we can
reserve parking for folks on C street, but have limited spaces. Do you know how everyone
will be arriving? We would need car information (make, model, license plate) and driver
info.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 4:56 PM
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Thanks, I will come up with a great person if the Secretary is traveling I'm on the case-
From: Katie Dodge I (b)(6)

To: (b)(6)
Cc: Wade, David E; (b)(6)
I just spoke to Hunter. Let's see if this makes sense and can work - Plan to hold the
class at State regardless of whether Secretary Kerry is in town or away.
David, Hunter would like to know if you could suggest an interesting and
appropriate person to stand in to cover the topic of Syria?
Thanks,
Katie
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM,l(b)(G)

wrote:
Thank you David we just connected via phone!
Katie per our conversation, let's tough base Monday morning, about the possibility of
making this happen Tuesday evening, per the original plan. As I mentioned, in case this
does not work out, and Hunter is interested in scheduling another day while class is in
session during April, I believe we could get scheduled one of those days in mid-April.
Look forward to touching base either this weekend, or Monday,

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From: Wade, David E

To: 'kdodgel (b)(6)
Thanks Katie: I'm addins (b)(6) !So far so good -- always a possibility that over the
weekend something changes and we learn that the Secretary has to travel -- but so far we
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think he will still be in Washington.I (b)(6) lare terrific and they'll know what
information we'll need for the students so they can get inside the building.
Best,
David
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To: Wade, David E
Subject: Tuesday's Class for Georgetown
Hello Mr. Wade,
I am checking in per Hunter's request to see if everything is all set for Tuesday's
class with Secretary Kerry. Do you need anything from him or the students (ss#
etc.)? I am happy to help. Please let me know.
Thank you.
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Sent: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:27:58 -0400

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Subject: RE: Updated Personal Wealth stats
There is sometimes some justice in the world.

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Rough year for some of our friends ;)
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POORER BY 23.6% IN A YEAR, SAYS FORBES-UKRAINE
Kyiv, May 30 (lnterfax-Ukraine) -The wealth of the top 100 richest Ukrainians narrowed by $13
billion or 23.6% in a year, to $42 billion, Forbes-Ukraine said in a rating published on Thursday.
According to the publication, the unchanged leader of the past years and the only shareholder in
the largest Ukrainian holding SCM - Rinat Akhmetov- lost $4.2 billion or 27.3% since April 2013 (when
the previous rating was published), and it wealth is assessed at $11.2 billion now.
The owner of EastOne Victor Pinchuk is still second with $3 billion, while a year ago its wealth
was assessed at $3.8 billion.
Hennadiy Boholiubov is third with $2 billion, climbing from the fifth position last year and
replacing his partner in PrivatBank, lhor Kolomoisky, in the top three richest Ukrainians. Boholiubov the
only person from the top ten managed to increase its wealth by $300 million, maybe, thanks to his
ConsMin mining company with assets in Australia and Ghana.
Wealth of Kolomoisky who became Dnipropetrovsk region governor in spring 2014 narrowed by
one fourth, to $1.8 billion.
Senior partner of Akhmetov in Metinvest mining and steel holding, the owner of Smart-holding
and MP Vadim Novinsky is fifth with the decline from $1.9 billion to $1.4 billion.
The owner of Roshen Corporation and recently elected Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko
and a majority shareholder in MHP Yuriy Kosiuk have $1.3 billion each ($1.6 billion a year ago), the
owner of Finance and Credit Group and a majority shareholder in Ferrexpo mining company Kostiantyn
Zhevaho has $1.1 billion ($1.5 billion), the owner of TAS Group and MP Sergiy Tigipko $1 billion ($1.2
billion) and Oleksandr Yaroslavsky whose assets are untied in DCH Group $932 million ($980 million).
A majority shareholder in Kernel agro-holding Andriy Verevsky did not enter the top ten richest
Ukrainians as he did in the previous year: his wealth fell from $1 billion to $667 million and allowed
former owner of Pravex Bank and former Kyiv mayor Leonid Cheronovetsky be 11th with smaller losses
over the year - from $750 million to $675 million.
The publication said that each tenth rich Ukrainian from the top 100 managed to increase its
wealth. Eight new Ukrainians entered the top 100, and the most successful was a majority shareholder
in Creative Group MP Stanislav Berezkin who was 22nd with $324 million.
In the global rating published by Forbes in late April, Akhmetov fell from 47th to 92nd position
and Pinchuk from 353rd to 542nd position.
Only Boholiubov managed to improve its positions in the global rating, climbing from 882nd to
874th position, while his partner in PrivatBank Kolomoisky- fell from 613th position to 1,016th.
The global rating also includes Novinsky (1,098th) with $1.6 billion, Kosiuk (1,201st) with $1.5
billion, Poroshenko (1,338th) with $1.3 billion, Zhevaho (l,535th) with $1.1 billion and Tigipko (l,575th)
with $1 billion.
Forbes still considers the co-owner ofZTR and Sumy Frunze NPO Konstantin Grigorishin as
Russian. His wealth grew from $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion in a year, according to Forbes. The owner of
Donetsksteel Viktor Nysenkis is not present in the global rating, although a year ago the publication said
that his wealth was $2.2 billion.
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Sent: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:43:44 -0400
To: Psaki, Jennifer R;Finer, Jonathan J
Subject: Fw: WP - Hunter Biden's new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for U.S.
soft power
Tough column
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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 09:34 PM
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Subject: WP - Hunter Biden's new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for U.S. soft power
Hunter Biden's new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for U.S. soft power
Washington Post
By Adam Taylor Updated: May 14 at 5:46 pm
Around the world, there is a major perception that U.S. foreign policy is dictated by a thirst for oil and
gas. For example, a 2002 Pew Research poll found that 75 percent of French respondents felt that the
United States-led invasion of Iraq was a simple ruse to gain control of Iraqi oil. And that isn't just what
the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" think either: Establishment figures in the United States such as
Sen. John McCain and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan have both made statements
that suggest they buy into it, too.
Such a perception is probably an oversimplification, but there is clearly some truth to the idea. And
whether it is true or not, perceptions clearly matter when it comes to international relations.
Think about that when you read the announcement that Vice President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, has
accepted a position on the board at Ukraine's largest private gas firm. According to a news release
posted Tuesday, the vice president's son would join the board of Burisma Holdings. The Yale-educated
lawyer would be in charge of the company's legal unit, the release said.
Here's a small selection of the responses to the news, which ranged from the incredulous to the
resigned:
Robert Coalson @CoalsonR

Follow
Biden's son takes job a Ukraine gas firm. Boy, that looks really bad. What are they thinking"?
http://bit.ly/RCzEEO
1:56 PM - 13 May 2014
Olga Kuzmina @OlgaKuzminaDC

Follow
Joe Biden's son is now head of legal affairs at Ukraine's largest gas company. Speechless!
http://www. them oscowti mes .com/business/ article/son-of-us-vice-president-bi de n-jo i ns-u kra i ne-gas-
com pa ny/500062. htm I ...
12:37 PM - 13 May 2014
Cong. Tim Huelskamp v' @CongHuelskamp

Follow
Obama White House for sale or rent. Biden's son to head Ukrainian gas company. #Nefarious
http://goo.gl/ZZ7W1U
1:20 PM - 14 May 2014
While the general public appeared nonplussed, the official response has been muted. "Hunter Biden is a
private citizen and a lawyer," White House spokesperson Kendra Barkoff told The Post. "The vice
president does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company."
Meanwhile, an ethics watchdog argued that it probably wasn't that big of a deal. "It can't be that
because your dad is the vice president, you can't do anything," Melanie Sloan, executive director of
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told Reuters.
It's true that there are no rules against Hunter Biden taking this position. And it's (fairly) safe to assume
that his appointment was not part of a broader, U.S.-led plot to oust Moscow-backed Ukrainian
president Viktor Yanukovych and steal all of Ukraine's gas. However, whatever the practical reality of
this posting, its symbolic nature makes it look very bad.
For one thing, while Burisma is clearly trying to portray itself (perhaps genuinely) as an open, Western
company, its ownership is more than a little murky. A 2012 investigation from Forbes Ukraine noted that
registration documents from Ukraine and Cyprus indicated that Nikolay Zlochevsky, a former
government minister and representative of Yanukovych's Party of Regions, was in control of the
company. There was speculation from Ukrainian energy analysts that Biden's appointment may have
been an attempt to avoid sanctions by other, bigger Yanukovych allies.
It's also unclear why, exactly, Biden was hired: At Yahoo News, Olivier Knox and Meredith Shiner have
speculated that the fact that so much of Burisma's permits are in Ukraine's troubled Dnieper-Donets
Basin may play a role.
Then there's the broader problem: The appointment of the vice president's son to a Ukrainian oil board
looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst. No matter how qualified Biden is, it ties into the idea that
U.S. foreign policy is self-interested, and that's a narrative Vladimir Putin has pushed during Ukraine's
crisis with references to Iraq and Libya. It clashes with the U.S. narrative that this is all about
international law and human rights.
To be fair, Hunter Biden isn't the only person linked to politics on the board of Burisma: The Wall Street
Journal reports that Devon Archer, the college roommate of John Kerry's stepson, has also joined, and
on Wednesday, Ukrainian media reported that former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski would
also join the board. It's an impressive crowd.
And Biden is certainly not the first politically-linked person to get a dubiously high-paying job on a
board. As Mikhail Korchemkin of East European Gas Analysis pointed out to me, more than a few
children of Russian politicians have ended up in executive positions in companies at the top of the
Forbes 500 list, and China's "princelings" have a similar habit. Bringing big names in has obvious political
advantages for companies and other rewards for the names- just ask Gerhard Schroder, the former
chancellor of Germany, who sits on the board of the Nord Stream and catches flack for hugging Vladimir
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Putin, or Dominique Strauss Kahn, now on the board at a subsidiary of Rosneft, the Russian state oil
giant where former secretary of state Donald L. Evans once turned down a role.
Still, you have to wonder how big the salary has to be to put U.S. soft power at risk like this. Pretty big,
we'd imagine.
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Sent: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:54:12 +0000
To: Hunter Biden (b)(G)
Subject: hey
Hunter: just wanted to say, you're a really good guy with a lot of fans who have worked with you, and
obviously a really great family -- this too will pass.
Keep the faith,
David
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Sent: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:45:17 +0000
To: Psaki, Jennifer R
Subject: RE: FYI -- Leibovich book
Thanks. God that 2002 story was the death of me.
From: Psaki, Jennifer R

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 10:44 AM
To: Wade, David E
Subject: FW: FYI -- Leibovich book
I asked I (b)(6) Ito look into this becaus~ (b)(6) I randomly emailed me about it and if it was a
problem wanted to make sure we had the details.
From:I (b)(6) I
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:31 PM
To: Psaki, Jennifer R
Cc:I (b)(6)
Subject: FYI -- Leibovich book
Sol (b)(6) !sleuthed around on the Leibovich book today and figured out that it's actually just a
collection of old essays - no new content. Whew!
The book reprints a Leibovich article about Sen. Kerry and Teresa Heinz that ran in the Post back in 2002.
See below.
Hope this is helpful!

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The Washington Post
June 2, 2002 Sunday

Final Edition
The Heart of Politics; One Woman, Two Senators and

Presidential Ambitions: The Washington Tale of _Jo_·_
nd Teresa Heinz
BYLINE: Mark Leibovich, Washington Post Staff Writer
SECTION: STYLE; Pg. F0l
LENGTH: 4795 words

Teresa Heinz is getting up a full head of rage while her husband, Sen. "'--"'--'--'--'---'-----'---'-='-'-LL-
fidgets.
They are in the living room of their Georgetown home, where Heinz has lived ever since her
late first husband, John Heinz, came to Washington in 1971 as a Republican congressman
from Pennsylvania. In the front entrance, the first things a visitor sees are two framed
photos of Teresa Heinz cuddled with tall, smiling men with big heads of brown hair: In one
is---~~""' in the other John Heinz.
She still calls John Heinz "my husband" and doesn't always correct herself -- "my late
husband" -- even when Kerry is around. She still wears the blue sapphire engagement ring
that Heinz gave her.
But John Heinz's enduring presence in Teresa's life is best revealed when someone slights
his memory. Which, at least indirectly, is why she and Kerry are now in mid-bicker.
"That guy does not deserve diplomacy," says Heinz. She is referring to
""'the Pennsylvania Republican who offended her in 1994 during his campaign for
John Heinz's old Senate seat. She won't elaborate on what Santorum said to earn her
enmity, only that she won't speak to him again.
"He's changed," Kerry mumbles, trying to keep this from becoming an on-the-record
spectacle. The Massachusetts Democrat tries to add that he gets along with his colleague,
but Heinz interrupts. "Sweetie, I know," Kerry says, talking over her, "I'm just saying ... "
He exhales a long, loud sigh.
Just a few minutes earlier, Kerry, 58, was saying how much he admires his wife's candor.
And Heinz, 63, was saying that while she can be opinionated, she can also be tactful. But
sometimes she can't help herself, especially when the matter involves John Heinz, who was
killed in a plane crash in 1991.
Every time Heinz raises her voice, Kerry tries to play down his wife's agitation, which only
inflames her more. A Yankee stoic, he gently suggests that his wife and Santorum get
together.
"No, I don't want to get together with him, John," she snaps. "I don't have to do certain
things."
"Well."
"Okay? I don't have to be that politic."
Heinz speaks in a high, breathy voice and sharply accented English -- she grew up in
colonial Mozambique, where her first language was Portuguese.
In 1995 she married Kerry and today, they are perhaps America's most compelling political
couple not named Clinton or Bush.
Their story packs all the qualities that captivate Washington -- money, romance and
ambition -- with the bonus of mingling the big legacy of one senator with the big plans of
another. The Heinz-Kerry marriage is a delicate merging of public families, large profiles and
political missions. It is a story that belies the shorthand of so much Washington narrative, a
union of shared grief, hard work, frequent tensions and, ultimately, of love that filled mutual
voids during desolate patches of their adulthoods.
Kerry officially says he is undecided on whether he'll run for president in 2004. But he's
acting like a candidate -- raising money, careening to Jefferson-Jackson dinners, attending
picnics in Iowa. Friends and colleagues say the once-desperate edges of Kerry's ambition
have been smoothed by age, experience, stature and the settled domestic life that had
eluded him for much of his Senate career.
But there remains a base line reserve to Kerry that can leave him difficult to embrace. He is
dismissive on matters self-analytic and has a politician's bent for evading dicey matters or
framing them in tidy certainties.
Part of Heinz's charm is that she has no patience for this. When Kerry is asked about the
nightmares that haunted his sleep for years after he returned from Vietnam, he shrugs. "I
don't think I've had a nightmare in a long time," he says. But then Heinz begins to
mimic Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare.
"Down! Down, down!" she yells, patting her hands down on her auburn hair.
"I haven't gotten slapped yet," she says. "But there were times when I thought I might get
throttled."
Kerry quivers his right foot and steers the discussion to the counseling programs he has
supported for Vietnam veterans. Asked if he has been in therapy himself, he non-answers.
"It doesn't bother me anymore, I just go back to sleep."
Heinz presses him. "Not therapy for the dreams, therapy for the angst," she says, and looks
quizzically at him, awaiting an answer. Kerryshakes his head "No." This is not your father's
political couple, though you wonder, at this moment, if Kerry wishes it were.
"Barbara Walters time," Kerry says when he is asked about an observation from Heinz that
the "shells" around him have softened in recent years. Nor does he relish the personal
issues that a presidential run highlights, "the kind of crap that's so light and trivial."
And yet, despite a nasty case of laryngitis, Kerry responds to every question he is asked.
It's a balance, he says, between keeping some things private and helping people get to
know him.
"I keep thinking of [Winslow] Homer watercolors," Heinz exclaims, jumping in. She spins a
notion of how politics is driven by fast decisions, black-and-white perceptions and the
"immediacy of pictures." In fact, she says, political characters comprise the "nuance of a
Homer watercolor," better animated in a palette of grays and beiges than in black and
white.
Kerry checks his watch and dashes off to a Senate vote. He kisses his wife on the forehead
as he leaves, and she calls after him to take his lozenges.
Until recently, Kerry has been largely confined to a position of Washington otherness -- the
"other" senator from Massachusetts, the "other" Senator Kerry (no second "e"). His highest-
profile triumphs have come on complex, grueling investigations of the Bank of Credit and
Commerce (BCCI) and whether there were still POWs in Vietnam. Over his 18-year Senate
career, Kerry has become an increasingly savvy legislator and a go-to Dem in such timely
areas as the environment and international terrorism -- the subject of a book he wrote in
1997.
Kerry is classically drawn as How a Senator Should Look: He is 6 feet 4 and slim with a
helmet of brownish-silver hair, high and knobby cheekbones and a surgically enhanced chin
-- not cosmetic surgery, contrary to speculation. (The operation, says Kerry press secretary
David Wade, was to correct "a malocclusion," a bad bite that caused a clicking in his jaw.)
The second of four children, John Forbes Kerry was born in Colorado, the son of an Army
pilot who later worked for the Foreign Service across Europe. At St. Paul's School in New
Hampshire, Kerry's classmates recall a driven student who was thrilled -- even obsessed --
with the idea that he shared initials with his political idol, JFK. He graduated from Yale and
volunteered for the Navy during Vietnam. For his service, he was awarded a Silver Star, a
Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.
Kerry has always been at his best in unsettled, improvisational settings, like the jungle
warfare of Vietnam, the Don Imus radio show or the pickup ice hockey games he plays in at
the Fort Dupont rink in Anacostia. There he is "John," not "Senator," profane and earthy, his
guard down, his Boston accent more pronounced. After one shift, an exhausted Kerry skates
off the ice and offers this early-morning rejoinder to no one in particular: "It's time to barf!"
Being the junior senator to Ted Kennedy and, before that, the lieutenant governor to
Michael Dukakis is not a re[acute]sume[acute] that will thrill swing voters. But Kerry's aides
duly tout his mainstream bona fides: his membership in centrist Democratic groups, his love
of hunting, the four years he spent as a prosecutor, his close friendship with Sen. John
McCain and his defeat of popular Republican governor William Weld in the 1996 Senate
race.
But Kerry's ace credential is Vietnam. His combat heroism could spring him from liberal
pigeonholes, just as his dissent has long endeared him to a generation of antiwar activists --
the kind who still vote in Democratic primaries.
Kerry commanded a Navy "Swift Boat" that patrolled the Mekong delta. His crew
recalls Kerry as brainy and extremely aggressive, "a good leader and a bit of a hard-
charger," says Del Sandusky from Elgin, Ill.
Two years after Kerry returned to the United States, he appeared before Sen. William
Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. "How do you ask a man to be the last man
to die in Vietnam?" Kerry said in the speech's enduring sound bite. "How do you ask a man
to be the last man to die for a mistake?" After Kerry spoke, committee member Claiborne
Pell (D-R.I.) expressed his hope that the young man would return to the Senate one day as
a member.
In his political career, Kerry has been hampered by an air of self-seriousness. He speaks in
lecturing cadences and slopes his long face downward when he's addressing someone. "My
dad has a knack for coming off as stiff and insincere," says daughter Vanessa Kerry, 25,
who says he is anything but. "Sometimes I see him speaking in that uptight way that he
does and I think, who is this guy?"
~~~~~Tis not a congenital backslapper. To compensate, he can seem like he's play-
acting the role of ebullient pol. In a series of interviews this spring, Kerry repeats the same
lines, same stories, same observations -- not uncommon for a politician -- but to do so with
the same person, within a few days of each other, suggests a mode of rote showmanship.
He has always had difficulty with the political art of shrouding ambition in nonchalance. He
has been dubbed "Liveshot" by some in the Boston press for his zealous pursuit of TV
cameras. As Kerry prepares for 2004, he could be suspect, oddly enough, because many
people assume it's something he has always wanted to do. This is a peculiar stigma, given
his profession, but one that affixed itself to Kerry decades ago. In a "60 Minutes" report
on Kerry's leadership of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1971, Morley Safer asked him
if he wanted to be president.Kerry, who said no, was 27.
On a recent afternoon, Kerry was in his Russell Building office, sitting on a wing chair with
his legs crossed next to a fireplace. The office is decorated with a watercolor painted by Ted
Kennedy and framed $ 5 and $ 1 bills that Eugene McCarthy contributed to his first
campaign.Kerry's computer screen is filled with a smiling photo of ... "'--"'-''---'-'---'-----'---'-"=--'---'----L-'-,..,
Asked about the perception that he desperately wants to be president, Kerry shakes his big
head. If he wanted to be president so badly, Kerrywonders testily, then why is he the only
Democrat in his Senate class who has not run?
"Sometimes in the past, I was a little bit defensive about" wanting to be president, he says.
"Al Gore ran in 1988. Do people throw that at Al Gore? He ran in 1988, I didn't. He's run
four times for national office, I haven't run once."
He ticks off a list of other Senate Democrats who have run for president: Tom Harkin, Bob
Kerrey ("and Bob Kerrey came to the Senate after me"), Paul Simon. "Jay Rockefeller went
out and explored it.
"But I said no. I said no."
"If you interviewed 100 senators, you could get most of them to admit to wanting to be
president," says longtime Senate staffer Cliff Shannon, who includes in that group his boss
for 15 years, H. John Heinz III.
John Heinz was born in Pittsburgh and raised in San Francisco, the only child of parents who
divorced when he was 3. He graduated from Yale and, between his first and second years at
Harvard Business School, went to work at a bank in Geneva, with an eye to one day
working for the food empire that his great-grandfather founded in 1869. There he met the
daughter of a Portuguese doctor, Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira, who was
attending the Interpreters School of the University of Geneva. (She is fluent in five
languages.) They were married in 1966, lived in Pittsburgh and moved to Washington
when Heinz was elected to Congress in 1971.
John Heinz would become the most popular politician in Pennsylvania, a centrist Republican
who won six elections for the House and Senate between 1971 and 1988. His aides had
begun holding events around the country to stoke his national profile. He never mentioned
his presidential aspirations to Teresa. Others did, though, and her stock response was "Over
my dead body."
A presidential campaign would only disrupt her desire for a semi-normal family life. She was
more engaged in issues than many Senate spouses, but she viewed her role primarily as a
wife and mother. By most accounts, John and Teresa Heinz had a devoted marriage,
although it was not without difficulty.
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Charming, driven and impatient, John Heinz had a knack for applying the pointed
questioning style that he honed in Senate hearing rooms to his home life. He would grill his
wife about the food she was cooking, his three boys about school, Social Security, whatever
came up at the dinner table. Teresa would jump in. "I would say, 'Jack, this is your family.
We're just stupid. We're just normal. We don't know.' "
John and Teresa Heinz worked hard at their marriage and grew closer over time. They were
married 25 years. "It's a beautiful time of a marriage," she says. "The things that used to
rattle you and make you upset all of a sudden become endearing. And you never knew it
could happen.'' They were starting to think about grandchildren.
"And then, whoa, it's gone," she whispers. "That was so unkind. That was so unkind.''
One second, she was a Senate wife, downstairs in her Georgetown home, in the den where
the kids used to play. She got a phone call and learned that John Heinz's plane had collided
with a helicopter over a Lower Merion, Pa., schoolyard.
Suddenly, she was political widow, principal heir to a half-billion-dollar fortune, and head of
the billion-dollar Howard Heinz endowments.
She was awash in logistics, details and boxes full of minutiae whose previous master was
now interred in the Heinz family mausoleum in Pittsburgh. Republicans in Pennsylvania were
urging her to take over John Heinz's vacated Senate seat. She almost did, but it was too
soon, and there was too much else to do.
She was zooming through her life in a manic fog. A year later, when the logistics thinned,
the magnitude of her loss came pouring in. Heinz was fighting with her boys, particularly
the youngest, Christopher. He was the closest of the three to his father. "If you wish that I
was dead instead of your father, that's quite normal and don't feel guilty about it,"
Teresa Heinz recalled saying to him. "But just don't make me pay the price for it."
(Christopher Heinz, now 29, declined to comment.)
She saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac, one pill a day. It eased the paralysis, she
says, not the sadness. She began devoting much of her time, energy and money to issues
that John Heinz held dear in the Senate. In a sense, Teresa says, keeping
John Heinz's issues alive was a way to keep the senator alive.
Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy calls her "Saint Teresa" for her charitable work, much of
which was concentrated in that city. She has become one of the nation's foremost
philanthropists, able to spin unscripted policy yarns on the environment, women's health
issues, pension planning and other causes the Heinz foundation has taken on.
Teresa Heinz knew, however, that she did not want to be alone. "I think because she had
such a wonderful relationship with Jack, it allowed her to fall in love again," says her friend
Wren Wirth, the wife of former senator Tim Wirth (D-Colo.). Teresa first met ""
at a Washington Earth Day event in 1990. They were introduced by John Heinz, who served
with Kerry on the Senate Banking Committee. They were friends in the way that everyone
in the Senate is a good friend, but they were more cordial than close.
Kerry had been unhappily single for most of his time in Washington. His election to the
Senate in 1984 came two years after his separation from his wife, Julia Thorne. They were
separated six years and divorced in 1988.
His separation and divorce were "awful in every regard," Kerry says. He had two young
daughters, Alex and Vanessa. He spent hours on the phone helping them with homework.
He spent every weekend in Boston. "Trying to make it all work, trying to be a senator,
trying to be a father, trying to hold those pieces together, I found challenging."
Kerry had been a prodigious but reluctant dater, linked in gossip columns to many women,
often much younger. He hated the scrutiny. "If you have one date, and you go to a
restaurant, and somebody sees you, boom, you're going out," Kerry says. "There's no early
test." He became a "Senate hermit."
Then came Teresa Heinz. "There was a real void in John's life," says Bruce Droste, a close
friend. "He was a lonely person. She was a lonely person, too."
Kerry renewed his acquaintance with Heinz at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
They met again at a Washington dinner party a few months later and, after a long
conversation, Kerry invited her on a walk to the Mall that ended at the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial.
Kerry and Heinz began dating late in 1993 and announced their engagement in November
1994. They lived together four months and married on May 26, 1995, on the Nantucket
estate where Teresa and John Heinz used to spend their summers. Heinz was escorted down
the aisle by her three sons, met by Kerry and his daughters on the porch.
There was family friction. It centered particularly on Teresa Heinz and the Kerry daughters.
Little dust-ups -- Alex or Vanessa calling after Teresa's bedtime, showing up unannounced
when there was company -- would escalate. The macro issue was that all parties expected
to beKerry's first priority. He would always drop everything for Alex and Vanessa who were
18 and 21 at the time of the marriage. But if Heinzexpected something from Kerry and
didn't get it, she would become wounded.
"I'm a real needy person," Heinz says, "and that's because of loss .... It's like when you
say to a child you're going to do something and you don't, they're very threatened. For me,
it's a loss."
Several of Heinz's intimates have died in crashes: Her husband, her sister (at 19), her
grandmother and godfather. She lost her father and John Heinz's father within four years of
her husband's death. Teresa Heinz always learned the news by phone and, it seemed, when
she was alone. As she reflects on her life in her O Street NW home, the phones ring
constantly, an unnerving background echo to the grief she is discussing.
Heinz frequently invokes her repeated disappointments. "It's hard," she says, referring to
her relationships with Kerry's daughters. "When they want their father, they want their
father, same as I want their father when I want their father, because I don't have much."
Family sources say that Kerry often felt uncomfortable in the middle of these disputes. All
parties point out that such tensions are normal in such family mergers. "We're not trying to
play Ozzie and Harriet or something," "--"'--'---'--'--'----'---'-'='-'----'--l"-T says.
"I still think everyone is still finding their own comfort with one another," says David
Thorne, Kerry's close friend and the twin brother of his first wife. "You have a lot of strong-
willed, strong-minded people trying to reach some combination with each other."
Vanessa and Alex have grown close to Heinz's sons, Chris, Andre and John Heinz IV.
"Strong characters sometimes, you know, adjust at different rates, and in different
ways," Kerry says. "I think the family and the kids are very affectionate with one another."
Yes, they have all "grown" as a family, Heinz says, but she won't abide explanations that
are too clean. "Like everything else, you go forward two steps, you go backward one," she
says.
Heinz was reluctant to embrace parts of her new husband's life. Her identity stayed rooted
in the Heinz family, foundation and company. She never considered taking the name
"Kerry," never cast a vote for - - - ~ - T (she remains registered, as a Republican, in
Pittsburgh) and still spends much of her time in the four homes she shared with
John Heinz in Washington, Idaho, Nantucket and Pittsburgh. They are all adorned with
multiple photos of John Heinz, whom she still calls "the love of my life," and their telephone
numbers contain the digits "57," the traditional number of Heinz food varieties.
(Heinz and Kerry own a mansion together on Boston's Beacon Hill.)
"The cliche is that time heals everything," says David Garth, the media consultant who was
a friend of John Heinz and remains close to Teresa. "But that doesn't seem entirely true in
this case."
Kerry is gracious about John Heinz's prominence in his marriage. He lets out a quick,
exasperated laugh when he is asked about it, and he stammers out his answer. "I just feel,
just sort of comfortable," he says. "It's okay, it's not a ... " He stops mid-sentence and
talks about how he loves the Heinz boys, how they should be comfortable in the home they
grew up in. "I'm not trying to come in and replace that memory," he says.
Teresa Heinz says Kerry knew what he was getting when he married her. "I am sentimental,
loyal," she says. "I love my husband" -- she means John Heinz -- "I am in love with my
husband, and I have three kids." Kerry has plenty for himself, she says. He has his
daughters, his mother, three siblings, dozens of cousins. "When I go to Boston, he has
family and friends and everything," she says. "I have to make everything up. He's got all his
classmates he went to school with, they're all in America. I have no classmates. I have no
cousins."
The shared life of Kerry and Heinz is an ongoing and delicate balance between past and
present. It made for some uneasy scenes. In January 1997, Kerry and Heinz hosted a
reception for a group of Kerry supporters and campaign workers, many of them in town for
the second Clinton inauguration. The reception drew more people than expected
and Heinz was furious, according to two staffers who were present. When the guests left,
she vowed to Kerry that they would not hold such a reception again. Kerry tried to calm her,
saying that inviting people to their home was part of the political process.
"This isn't your house, John," she said, according to a former staffer who heard the
discussion. "This is my house."
Neither Kerry nor Heinz say they can recall the exchange, and Kerry points out that they
have held several political events at their home in recent years, often at his wife's initiative.
The Kerry-Heinz marriage has invited crude assumptions from the outset. The most cynical
is that he needs the fortune she inherited from John Heinz to be president. To
that, Kerry says he won't spend any Heinz money on a campaign -- and Heinz says she
won't make it available -- unless, in her words, an opponent engages in "character
assassination" against her or Kerry. As an example, Kerry says that if he is attacked in the
way that McCain was attacked by George W. Bush before the South Carolina Republican
primary in 2000, he would not hesitate to tap "other resources."
The questions about Teresa Heinz's fortune obscures a recurring observation among people
close to Kerry: that she has been fundamentally good for him. "My dad's basal rate is much
slower, calmer and more peaceful than it used to be," says Vanessa Kerry, a Harvard
Medical School student who uses terms like "basal rate" when talking about a person's
constitution. She ascribes much of this to her stepmother, whom she, while acknowledging
past strains, calls "an extraordinary woman."
Friends of Kerry say that Heinz has kept him on edge, a necessary function as he can be
prone to a kind of mental cruise control. "John needs a kind of tension to be at his best,"
says Thomas Vallely, a Vietnam veteran and close Kerry friend. "Part of him needs the high-
wire act."
The context of Vallely's observation is Kerry in politics and, to a lesser extent, warfare. But
it could just as easily apply to his life with Heinz.
"They have a relationship that makes me like and respect John more," says one
former Kerry aide who has been with the couple on several occasions.
With Heinz, Kerry chose a woman who challenges him, who nurtures his less developed
sides. "She's warm, a little soulful and pretty high-maintenance," the aide says. "And you
don't have to be around Teresa much to know that she defines a lot of who she is by what
she's lost."
Once every two or three months, Heinz will retreat to Idaho or Arizona where she likes to
"collapse for a week," by herself. Kerry, who faces no serious opposition for reelection this
year, has assumed a vigorous fundraising regimen: His$ 3.2 million war chest exceeds that
of any other Democratic presidential aspirant. On average, Heinz says, she and Kerry are
together two or three nights a week, and they set aside one weekend every month to "do
nothing" together.
Kerry has come to look to Heinz for what one friend calls the "emotional catharsis" for
Vietnam. She provides a place to soften the memories that had calcified beneath his public
skin. A few weeks ago, Kerry asked Heinz to come with him to see the Vietnam War film
"We Were Soldiers." She said no at first, but agreed to go after he said it would mean a lot
to him.
They went to a theater on Boston's Tremont Street early on a Sunday evening. Heinz cried
as she hadn't in a long time, especially during the scenes where children and wives learned
that their fathers and husbands had died. She sobbed loud and hard, while Kerry sat upright
next to her, crying quietly.
Over two long interviews, Teresa Heinz is by turns effusive and harsh, warm and slightly
bitter, solemn and melodramatic. And she is always, unfailingly, smart, original and
provocative. She hits on the following things: the excessive drinking of a Massachusetts
politician, the miscarriage suffered by one senator's wife, her own miscarriage, and the
Boston TV reporter who is an "unhappy, lonely man." She speaks of how her oldest son,
John IV, started "hating her" two years ago, when his daughter was born. (He declined to
comment.) She also talks about how shy she is.
You wonder how Teresa Heinz's "shyness" would play in the blitz of a presidential campaign,
and how the relative peace that Kerry and Heinzhave achieved would be sustained in such a
pressured environment.
Kerry says his wife is a huge campaign asset, someone who "raises things up a little bit,"
who brings freshness to the dialogue.
Some aides worry that her bluntness could become a problem, though they won't say it for
attribution. The topic of how to "handle Teresa" has been raised in several conversations
within Kerry's political circle, the aides say, including at least one discussion
where Kerry was present. The conclusion is that it would be futile to try.
Heinz says as much. She has no intention of subverting her hard-won wisdom to the on-
message orthodoxies of a campaign. "I don't want to be perfect, I want to be engaged," she
says. "But that makes a lot of people uncomfortable."
The bright face of John Heinz smiled down onto a cozy gathering of his family and friends.
He filled a big video screen at the Heinz Awards at the Folger Theatre, the signature event
of the Heinz family foundation's year.
Teresa Heinz, who spends hours each year on the ceremony's smallest details, presents the
five $ 250,000 awards and is the night's featured speaker. She gulps water and tries not to
cry. She speaks in a small, mumbly voice. In a 2 1/2-hour ceremony, there is no mention
of Kerry, who is sitting slightly hunched in the second row, separate from the rest of the
family. He says he always enjoys the evening. "It doesn't threaten me," he says later. "I'm
lucky enough to be alive and able to enjoy it."
When Teresa Heinz is asked if such an elaborate tribute to her first husband might be
difficult for the second, she shrugs, as if the question has never crossed her mind. "No, he's
a tall guy, he's gotten enough attention," she says of Kerry. "Just when you love one child,
you love your next child. You might have a predilection for one because you get along
better, but you'd give your life for any of them."
The scene is a watercolor that distills the awkward novelty of how three Washington lives
have aligned. Teresa Heinz walks away from the stage as the program concludes
and Kerry slaps triceps several feet away.
Heinz is engulfed by her children and by old family friends who congratulate her on a
perfect tribute to her husband. She squeezes hands, gives long hugs, and soaks in the
assurance that the legacy of John Heinz abides in the room, and in the world, just
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To: I (b)(6); (b)(3) ~Finer, Jonathan J
Subject: RE: UPDATE: Pro-Europe parties secure big election win in Ukraine: exit poll -
Reuters
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Subject: Re: UPDATE: Pro-Europe parties secure big election win in Ukraine: exit poll - Reuters
Will do! An important element is that only have the Rada seats are reflected in the exit polls because the other half
are directly elected and not by party. We will know more about how things have shaken out tomorrow.
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To: dni-watch-bb-alert; DNI-Watch-Europe
Subject: UPDATE: Pro-Europe parties secure big election win in Ukraine: exit poll - Reuters
October 26, 2014
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hailed a sweeping victory for pro-Europe parties in an election on
Sunday, saying the vote showed people backed his plan to end a separatist conflict, his pro-Western course and
democratic reforms.
Poroshenko's bloc took 23 percent of the votes cast for a field of29 competing parties, just ahead of the party of his
ally, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, according to an exit poll issued after voting stations closed in the ex-Soviet
republic.
Addressing Ukrainians two hours after polling ended, he thanked voters for backing a "democratic, reformist, pro-
Ukrainian and pro-European majority".
"The majority of voters were in favor of the political forces that support the president's peace plan and seek a
political solution to the situation in the Donbass," Poroshenko said, referring to the region of the industrialized east
where government forces have been fighting separatist rebels.
The result, confirmed by other exit polls, opened up the possibility of Poroshenko, a 49-year-old confectionery
magnate, continuing to work in tandem with Yatseniuk, with the latter staying as prime minister to handle sensitive
talks with the West on aid for the war-shattered economy.
The People's Front ofYatseniuk, a hawk in dealings with Russia who is liked in the West for his commitment to
deep reforms and stewardship of the economy, took just over 21 percent of the vote, according to the exit poll, with
a third pro-Europe party from western Ukraine in third place.
Speaking later at a news conference, Poroshenko said People's Front was the "main partner" in any parliamentary
coalition and talks to form the majority could begin on Monday.
He said he would like talks to be wrapped up quickly to form Ukraine's "best government".
But a surprise was the strong performance registered by a group representing allies of ousted president Viktor
Yanukovich. The Opposition Bloc of ex-Fuel Minister Yuriy Boiko was on 7.6 percent, enough to put the party into
parliament.
Though a fuller picture will not take shape for hours as the vote is counted, the exit polls confirmed expectations of
a pro-Western assembly emerging from the first parliamentary election since Yanukovich's overthrow by street
protests in February.
The polls offered a reading only of party voting for 225 of the 450 seats in parliament and results from voting to
single constituency seats will be known only in a few days time.
The election completed attempts by Poroshenko and his allies to restore normalcy to the sprawling country of 46
million after a year of turmoil and violence.
The overthrow ofYanukovich by "Euromaidan" street protests, which broke out when he ditched a deal to take
Ukraine closer to Europe and out of the Russian orbit, led to Russia denouncing a "fascist" coup and annexing
Ukraine's Crimea.
Moscow went on to back separatist rebellions in Ukraine's industrialized east which have killed more than 3,700
people.
Despite the surprise showing of Boiko's Opposition Bloc, other traditional allies of Russia such as the communists
flopped and the make-up of the future pro-Europe assembly seemed likely to spell future tensions with Moscow with
which Ukraine is also locked in a dispute over gas prices.
FORGING A COALITION
"We can say today that a third of voters support the president's course for carrying out reforms for entering the
European Union," said Yuriy Lutsenko, the leader of the Poroshenko Bloc.
With the party of pro-Europe party Selfhelp in third place on 13 .2 percent, Poroshenko should be able to forge a
coalition to move Ukraine toward the European mainstream.
Other parties which seemed likely to enter parliament on the basis of the exit poll included the populist Radical
Party and the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party.
The Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko performed worse than many had
expected, with the 5.6 percent it secured only just above the barrier required to be able to enter parliament.
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The outcome suggested many war veterans and "Euromaidan" activists enlisted as candidates will enter parliament,
giving it a strong patriotic and nationalist tone.
Boiko, whose party has criticized Poroshenko's policies in the east and campaigned in Yanukovich's power bases
there, said he would work for the "removal of the current authorities".
After battlefield losses, Poroshenko has said he would resolve the conflict in the east only by political negotiations.
Voting did not take place on Sunday in areas held by the rebels or in Crimea. In eastern regions controlled by the
army, armed soldiers guarded polling stations under Ukraine's flag.
"There was shelling all yesterday as we were preparing the voter lists," said Nadezhda Danilchenko, a member of
the election committee at a polling station in Volnovakha, a town about 50 km (30 miles) south of Donetsk in east
Ukraine.
"Either they (the separatists) were practising their shooting or they're trying to intimidate us."
Poroshenko went to a town in the Donetsk region held by the army to show support for the troops in the east, where
a truce is force. There were no big attacks on election day.
(Additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk and by Thomas Grove in Volnovakha, Ukraine, Writing by Richard
Balmforth, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Robin
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Two exit polls indicate that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's party will secure a
narrow win in Sunday's parliamentary election, falling substantially short of an outright majority.
The Rating Group Ukraine exit poll said the Poroshenko Bloc won 22.2 percent of the votes and that Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Popular Front party came second at 21 .8 percent.
Another exit poll organized by a group of three Ukrainian research groups saw the Poroshenko Bloc with 23 percent
of the vote and Popular Front in second place at 21.3 percent.
Although they lead rival parties, Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk share pro-Western postures and have campaigned on
reform agendas aimed pulling Ukraine back from the brink of economic ruin.
Preliminary official results are expected Monday.

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***This is an uncleared product. Some information may be unconfirmed. ***
Summary: The Wall Street Journal has reported that Secretary Kerry will be arriving in Kyiv on
Sunday. The Crimean government has created their own Navy, but the flagship of the Ukrainian
Navy (the Hetman Sahaydachny) remains loyal to Ukraine. Metropolitan Onufriy has
appealed to Moscow for the territorial integrity of Ukraine
Crimea
• Media reports that the Crimean government moved to create their own Navy.
• Office of Prosecutor General of Ukraine stopped an illegitimate attempt to change the
Prosecutor of the Crimea. Office of Prosecutor General of Ukraine stopped an
illegitimate attempt to change the Prosecutor of the Crimea.

http://www.unian.net/politics 892017-gcncralna a-prokuratura-prcsckla-pop itku-
nclcgitimno -smcn i-J rokurora-kt ima.html
Kyiv
• Metropolitan Onufriy acting leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow
Patriarchate) sent a letter today to Moscow Patriarch Kiri II appealing for peace and
asking Patriarch Kiri II to raise his voice for the integrity of the Ukrainian territory. He
sent a similar appeal to Putin and asked him to prevent the division of Ukraine and the
holy Church. (Note: three UOC MP dioceses are in Crimea).
Odessa
•Contacts in Odessa report calm in the city.
•Acting Odessa Mayor Bryndak urges citizens to demonstrate unity before the external
threat. Bryndak also assured that the city authorities are doing everything necessary to
ensure the normal life of Odessa. httJ :,/www.unian.neUpolitics 1892014-i-o-mera-
odess i-J rizyivaet- rorojan-prodemonstrirovat-edinstvo-J ered-\neshne -u rrozoy.html
Lugansk - nothing to report
Dnipropetrovsk - nothing to report
Kharkiv- nothing to report
Donetsk
• About 5,000 activists holding Russian flags on the square in front of the council building
and were met with cheers.
Vinnytsia- nothing to report

Sumy
• Rally in Sumy- up to 15,000 people against Russian intervention.
Zaporidzhe
• Draft board has mobilized 500 men.
Government and Other Political Activity
• PGO opens treason case against the former head of the Ukrainian Navy, who appeared on
Russian television surrendering his headquarters in Sevastopol and swearing allegiance to
the pro-Russian leaders of Crimea. Admiral Serhiy Hayduk is now the Chief of the Ukrainian
Navy. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the former naval chief was pressured to claim
allegiance to Pro-Russian Crimean "leadership." They claim that the ex-commander's family
were used as hostages. http://slcd.net.ucl/bcrczovskiy/zalozhniki/scmy<J/2014/02/03
• But, the former Navy Chief is now head of Crimea's Navy. http://rt.com/ncws/navy-chicf-
u kra inc-cri mca-485/
• Hetman Sahaydachny sails under Ukrainian Flag 1 02.03.2014 1 11s:so1

Sunday, March 2. GREECE -The Ukrainian Frigate Hetman

... Sahaydachny with Ka-27 helicopter and special team on board has
completed deployment within the Ocean Shield and the EU
Atala nta operations in the Gulf of Aden and now it is docked in Greece
for replenishment. Rear Admiral Andriy Tarasov, Commander of
"; National Contingent, informed the frigate would head home to
'!Ukraine, soon.
"Ukrainian servicemen serve for the Ukrainian people and sail under
the Ukrainian flag," he underlined. Rear Admiral Andriy Tarasov
mentioned the leaders of national contingent communicate constantly
with the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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•William Hague, UK Foreign Secretary is in Kyiv.
•Anti-Putin protest rally held in Munich.
•Robert Serry (rep of the UN Secretary General) was supposed to go to Crimea on behalf
of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. However, he was reportedly forced to cancel the
trip after talks with Crimean authorities.
• Crimean Tatars gathered in Ankara today to protest the Russian invasion of Crimea
(Twitter).
• Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Davutoglu says Turkey ready to contribute to
decrease tension in Crimea. Davutoglu visited Ukraine this past weekend.
• U.S. says economic sanctions and military action may be used against the Russian
Federation for military intervention into Ukraine. (Media quoting S statement)
• Russian media continues to publish unconfirmed stories of Ukrainian refugees
departing Ukraine.
• British government ministers boycott the Paralympics in Sochi.
• Secretary Kerry announced that he will be coming to Ukraine on Tuesday.
• Russian Prime Minister Medvedev made a statement on his Facebook page that there
will be no war between Russia and Ukraine.
Economy
• PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest retail bank, limited ATM withdrawals to UAH 1,000 per
day.
Key Statistics:
• Crimea Protester Update: Deaths: 2?; Injured: 30+?

• Southeast Regions Update: Deaths:_; Injured 103+
*****
• Maidan Protester Update: Deaths Since 18 Feb: Between 80-100; Injured: 361+
• MOH Update: Dead: 83; 713 injured; 423 hospitalized
• Party of Regions Defectors: 52+ (according to Post's count)
• Oblast Governors Resigned: 15
• Missing: Although a final accounting is not available, EuroMaidan has stated that 312
people remain missing.

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From: (b)(6)
Sent: Fri, 16 May 2014 20:52:30 +0000

To: Wade, David E
Subject: RE: Ukraine/Biden/Kerry - in case you missed it
I sent it to JK on Weds but forgot to include you ...
From: Wade, David E

Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 4:38 PM
To:I (b)(6) I
Subject: RE: Ukraine/Biden/Kerry - in case you missed it
Thanks - it made for a not fun day on Wednesday! Wasn't good.
From:I (b)(6)
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 4:29 PM
To: Wade, David E
Subject: FW: Ukraine/Biden/Kerry - in case you missed it
Just a heads up ...
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Subject: Ukraine/Biden/Kerry - in case you missed it
Biden's Son Joins Gas Firm In Ukraine. The (5/14) reports Vice President Biden's
son, Hunter, is joining the board of the a gas company operating in Ukraine. Biden will head
Burisma Holdings' legal unit and "seek support for Burisma among international organizations."
The--'----'---"===-'-------'---'-'---'-'--"'= (5/14, Chasmar, 455K) reports White House Press Secretary Jay
Carney said Hunter Biden's new position "does not reflect an endorsement by the
administration," and _ _ _ (5/14, Rampton) reports Vice President Biden's spokeswoman,
Kendra Barkoff, said he "does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement"
with Burisma.
The~~~~~~~ (5/14, Sonne, Grimaldi, Subscription Publication, 5.51M) reports
Hunter Biden is a close friend of Secretary Kerry's stepson, Christopher Heinz. The Journal
notes the hiring comes a few weeks after Devon Archer, a college roommate of Heinz's, joined
the company's board.
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Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 09:38 AM
To: Finer, Jonathan J
Subject: request for possible meeting with Secretary Kerry
Jon,
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I hope you are well.
My colleagues and I represent Iberdrola Renewables, the second largest wind operator in the U.S., with
farms in 19 states and counting and more than 40 utility-scale renewable energy projects - including wind
and solar - across the country. Iberdrola Renewables, LLC is the U.S. division of parent company
IBERDROLA, S.A., an energy pioneer with the largest renewable asset base of any company in the
world. IBERDROLA, S.A. is Spain's number one energy group and the fourth largest utility company in
the world by market cap. A company with a 107-year history and roots in hydroelectric power,
IBERDROLA, S.A. employs over 33,000 people in more than 40 countries and has placed environment
and sustainable development at the center of its global strategy.
You may have seen the letter already from 43 companies across 20 economic sectors and 150 countries
with more than $1.2 trillion of combined revenue in 2014, urging world leaders to reach an ambitious
climate deal at COP21 aligned with the UN Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals that keeps the
rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees Celsius. lberdrola's Chairman Ignacio Galan is one of the
43 signatories, and he strongly believes that the private sector has an ethical responsibility to help reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
Letter signatories committed their companies to:

reducing their carbon footprints,
setting targets to reduce emissions,
raising public awareness of the consequences of climate change, and
incorporating climate risk management into their business plans.
Iberdrola first implemented its corporate policy to fight climate change in 2009, and has cut its CO 2
emissions ever since. In 2014, Iberdrola reduced its global CO 2 emissions by 6% to 212 grams per
kilowatt hour. In the U.S., Iberdrola USA is the nation's second largest wind energy company with nearly
5,700 MW of renewable generation capacity. Last September during the UN summit in New York,
Iberdrola ratified its commitment to fighting climate change by subscribing to the Carbon Disclosure
Project and incorporating its objectives into their Road to Paris 2015 project. By signing the letter,
Iberdrola continues its support of the CEO Climate Leadership Group created in Davos last January.
Please find lberdrola's press release attached and the full content of the letter at:
http://redirect. state. sbu/?u rl = http ://redirect.state .sbu/?u rl= http://redirect.state .sbu/?u rl=https://medium. co
m/@ClimateCEOs.
I'm reaching out to you today because Chairman Galan will travel to the United States with
Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia when they meet with President Obama September 15.
Given Chairman Galan and lberdrola's leadership on climate and renewable energy issues, he is
very much hoping to meet with Secretary Kerry when he is in town. I'm not sure to what extent
Secretary Kerry will participate in events surrounding the Spanish visit, but if it is possible to
schedule a brief meeting between the Secretary and Chairman Galan, we would very much
appreciate having that opportunity.
Please let me know if you have questions or if there is any additional information I can provide you to help
make this meeting more of a possibility.
Best,
David
David Leiter I President ML Strategies Washington DC
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Sent: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:47:57 -0400

To: McKean, David
Subject: Fwd: Rosemont
Attach: RCI portfolio companies.pdf, ATT0000l.htm
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Sebastian Momtazi 4 (b)(6)

Date: July 13, 2015 at 5:30:18 PM EDT
To: "mckcm1 (b)(6)
Subject: RE: Rosemont
Hi David,
Is the attached OK?
I have left off companies that we have exited.
Feel free to reach out if you need anything else.
Best,
Seb
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To: Sebastian Momtazi
Subject: Re: Rosemont
Thanks so much
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Thank you David I will get this together for you by cob Monday
Seb Momtazi
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Hi Sebastian,
Hope you are well. I am currently being vetted by the

White House for a position and need your assistance
ASAP. The ethics guidelines require me to not only
disclose my investment in Rosemont - they need to know
all the sub assets, including city and state of each company
as well as the nature of the com an 's business. For
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provide me and that I might be able to have it COB
Monday? Just let me know.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Best,
David
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The Honorable John F. Kerry

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Dear Secretary Kerry,
I am writing lo recommend Sylvia Bolivar for the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary
in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department c,f State.
Sylvia Dolivar has \vorked at USO.A's Rural Development since May 2009 where she has
made significant policy and program contributions to bc,th the mission area and the communities
it serves. Among her accomplishments, Sylvia led the interagency agreement establishing a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund to improve
access to capital in the U .S./Mexico border region which includes some of the poorest regions in
the country. Sylvia also spearheads the regulatory agenda for Rural Development working with
senior staff across the mission area to streamline regulations and to improve program delivery
and rulemaking activities.
Rom and raised in New York City, the daughter of immigrants, Sylvia has spent her
professional career advocating for immigrants and low-income families. She is committed to
strengthening communities and expanding educational opportunities for all children. Sylvia
serves as President of the Prince Georges County Board of Library Trustees.
I strongly support Sylvia Bolivar for the Deputy Assistant Secretary position and I hope
that you will give her serious cc,nsideration.
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Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:46:40 -0400

To: Wade, David E
Subject: Nelson Cunningham
David,
Ran in to Nelson Cunningham this week and asked him whether he was going in. He said he really
hoped he might have the chance to serve at State under JK and had been in a few weeks ago to see you
and I (b)(6) I
I know I don't have to sell you on Nelson - he's been with John since '84 and his day-job at Mclarty
seems like perfect training for something in your econ area. I've worked with Nelson over the years and
he really is top-notch on this stuff. And completely loyal to our boss.
Hope he's still in the mix.
David
David Leiter I President ML Strategies Washington DC

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23 Founder, Knightbridge, Inc \Mr. Bajaj \9/25/2014
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33 Senior Director, BowerGroupAsia jMs. Khamhatta \9/28/2014
34 The.Energy.& Resource.Institute .(TERI), .Advisor ............................................................................... !Ms .. Khanna ......................................................................................!9/28/2014········ .....................
35 HSBC India \Ms. Kidwai \9/28/2014
36 Senior Vice President for .Corporate .Strategy.and_ Business _Development, ...................................... .)Mr.. Lemmo ....................................................................................... \9/28/2014 .............................
37 President and CEO, Textron ),fs. Lord j9/25/2014
38 Chairman and.Managing Director, Mahindra .Group ........................................................................... .JMr.. Mal1indra.................................................................................J9/25/2014 .............................
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44 Chairman, Deloitte !Mr. Renjen !9/25/2014
45 Senior Corporate Excecutive, Ford )J\Ir. Schoch [9/25/2014
46 Xocolati !Mr. S. Shah !9/25/2014
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47 President, Spaan Technology Inc !Ms. S. Shah !9/25/2014
48 Xocolati !Mrs. Namrata Shah !9/25/2014
49 Resident Director, North _America, Tata.Sons........................................................................................!Mr.. Shapiro .......................................................................................!9/25/2014 .............................
50 Senior General Manager, North America, Tata Sons \Mr. Sharma j9/25/2014
51 Excecutive ,Vice President for Marketing, _FedEx ............................................................................... ...JMr.. Subramaniam...........................................................................J9 /28/2014 .............................
52 Caterpillar !Mr. Umpleby !9/28/2014
53 GlobalChairman,KPMG !Mr.Veihmeyer !9/25/2014
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56 Director of the CIA !The DirectorofCIA !9/25/2014
57 USTR Ambassador )Ambassador Froman [9/25/2014
58 Chairman &.President of.the.U.S ..Export-Import Bank ...................................................................... ]Mr._Hochberg...................................................................................[9/28/2014 .............................
59 Secretary ofEnergy !The Secretary of Energy !9/25/2014
60 Judge, DC Court of Appeals \Mr. Srinivasan j9/25/2014
61 Miss. America 2014...................................................................................................................................... !Ms._Dayu!uri ....................................................................................}9/25/2014 .............................
62 Surgeon, author, and public health researcher \Dr. Gwande j9/25/2014
63 Actor !Mr. Kai Penn !9/25/2014
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67 Director, PMO j j9/28/2014
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69 Consul General oilndia, San Francisco ! !9/28/2014
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77 Ambassadorof the Republic of India \Ambassador of the Republic oflndia }/28/2014
78 Deputy Chiefof Protocol, Embassy of India ] !9/28/2014
79 Joint Secretary, MEA/INTERPRETER j j9/28/2014
80 Prime.Minister........................................................................................................................................... )The Prime.Minister of. the.Republic of lndia ......................[9/25/2014 ........................... ..
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90 A [Desk Add [Roemer !Tim )T.H. fM
91 A..........[Desk Add ......................... [Singh .........................[Vikram...................................... .)Mr. ... .,JM ............
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93 A IDesk Add lwisner IFrank. IT.H. IM
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127 A [FSOS !Kissi~ger [Henry ]Dr. )v1
128 A........ _!HOST.............................. [Biden ..................... .)oseph...................................... .JT.H... JM .......... ..
129 A !HOST !Kerry John jT.H. iM
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89 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracv, Human Rights and Labor !Mr. Malinowski !9/25/2014
90 Former U.S. Ambassador to India )Ambassador Roemer [9/25/2014
91 Vice. President, _National. Security_ and .International Policy ................................................................ ..JMr.. Singh......................................................................................... 9/25/2014 ........................... .. J
92 Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace jDr. Tellis !9/25/2014
93 Former U.S. Ambassador to India LA.mbassador Wisner !9/28/2014
94 Deputy Assistant Administrator,.Asia.Bureau..USAID ........................................................................!Mr.. Anand .........................................................................................!9/25/2014 .............................
95 Assistant Secretary, SCA \Ms. Biswal j9/25/2014
96 Deputy Secretary of State........................................................................................................................ ...)The _Deputy. Secretary of State ..................................................... 9/25/2014 ............................. J
97 Special Advisor for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives jMr.Casey j9/25/2014
98 Curator, Department of State \Ms. Craighill \9/28/2014
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101 Assistant Secretarv, PA !Mr. Frantz !9/25/2014
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104 Special Envoy & Coordinator (Acting), Bureau of Energy Resources \Mr. Hochstein j9/25/2014
105 Under Secretary of State_ for Management .............................................................................................. !Ambassador.Kennedr....................................................................}9/25/2014 ........................... ..
106 Deputy Assistant Secretary \Mr. Keshap j9/25/2014
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108 Exective Secretary \Ambassador MacManus j9/25/2014
109 Director S/P, State ]Mr. McKean [9/25/2014
110 Under Secretary- E, DOS \Ms. Novelli j9/28/2014
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118 Counselor of the Department !Ambassador Shannon !9/ 25/2014
119 Under Secretary for Political Affairs \Ambassador Sherman }/25/2014
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126 Former _Senator.......................................................................................................................................... ..J.Senator. Kerrey ............................................................................... J................................................
127 Fmr. Secretary of State, Kissinger & Associates jDr. Kissinger !9/25/2014
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129 The Secretary of State !The Secretary of State !9/25/2014
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131 A !Media !Nair !Vinita !Ms. fF
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143 A !MOC-Rep 1Royce !Ed ]T.H. !,'\I
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130 Washington Post !Ms. Morello !9/25/2014
131 CBS News ]Ms. Nair f
132 Guest.of Rep.Faleomaega ....................................................................................................................... ...JMr.. Puri .............................................................................................[9/28/2014 .............................
133 Congressman ................................................................................................................................................ !Mr.. Bera ..........................................................................................)9/25/2014 .............................
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135 Congressman ................................................................................................................................................!Mr.. Chabot........................................................................................f9/25/2014 .............................
136 Congressman )Ir. Crowley :9/25/2014
137 Congressman............................................................................................................................................... .)Mr..Faleomavaega............................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
138 Congresswoman jMs. Gabbard !9/25/2014
139 Congressman............................................................................................................................................... .Jllfr..Hoyer .........................................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
140 Congresswoman !Ms. Kelly !9/25/2014
141 Congresswoman :Ms. Pelosi :9/28/2014
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145 CEO, American India Foundation !Mr. Kumar !9/25/2014
146 Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code :Ms. Saujani :9/25/2014
147 President,.Center.for.American Progress ................................................................................................ !Ms .. Tanden .....................................................................................)9/25/2014 ........................... ..
148 President & CEO OPIC :Ms. Litrlefield :9/28/2014
149 Patton.Boggs .. Former Ambassador to. Luxembourg........................................................................... ..)Ambassador .Constantiou ...............................................................[9/25/2014 ........................... ..
150 Retired/philanthropist, Investor in the NJ Devils jMr. Sarma !9/25/2014
151 CEO, Globetrotters Engineering :Mr. N. Shah :9/25/2014
152 Spouse.ofNiranjan ..................................................................................................................................... ]Mrs ..P.. Shah..................................................................................... 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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155 PresidentandCEO,MedTechGases :Mr.Kapur :9/25/2014
156 Doctor at NIH; wife of Aneesh Raman ]Dr. Naik [9/25/2014
157 OZY Media, Former CNN Middle East Correspondent, Former POTUS speechwriter :Mr. Raman :9/25/2014
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160 Deputy Secretary of Commerce ............................................................................................................. ...)The _Deputy. Secretary of Commerce ............................................[9/ 25/2014 .............................
161 Deputy Attorney General !Mr. Cole !
162 Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation :Mr. Countryman :9 /28/2014
163 Chief.Technology.Advisor,.N ASA ...........................................................................................................!Dr. Joshi ............................................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
164 Defense Under Secretary :Mr. Kendall :9/28/2014
165 Commerce Assistant .Secretary ................................................................................................................. .).Mr .. Kumar ........................................................................................[. 9/25/2014 .............................
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170 Assistant Secretary of Defense !Ambassador Shear !9/25/2014
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171 Under Secretary of Homeland Security !Ambassador Taylor !9/28/2014
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173 A [USG-Head [Hamburg [Margaret )r.H. F f
174 A..........[USG-Head ....................... [Shah ..........................[Rajiv.......................................... .)T.H .. .,JM ........... .
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181 A....... ..JVP-Guest........................... \Campbell................ __iKun ........................................... \T.H .... [M ........... .
182 A [VP-Guest [Chatterjee !Swadesh [Mr !M
183 A !VP-Guest 1collins !Shellv Kapoor )vis. !F
184 A !VP-Guest !Desai
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187 A......... !\TP-Guest........................... [Elizondo ................. )Carlos......................................... !Mr...... lM .......... ..
188 A....... ..J.VP-Guest........................... .jGhelani.....................i' Paresh ........................................ .i_Mr ...... .jM.......... ..
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192 A :vP-Guest \Nix !Sheila jT.H. [F
193 A !VP-Guest !Patel !Pratik !Mr. (M
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195 A !VP-Guest !Ricchetti !Stew !T.H. !M
196 A......... !VP-Guest........................... !Shah ........................ ..!Vinod.K. ................................... i_Dr. ..... !M ........... .
197 A i\TP-Guest \Sharma !Rajeev !Mr. \M
198 A !VP-Guest [Smith ijulie !Ms. [F
199 A [VP-Guest [Vam1a rAnurag ]Mr. \r
200 A !VP-Guest !West !Thomas !Mr. LM
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172 Select USA !AmbassadorThummalapally !9/28/2014
173 Commissioner FDA )Ms. Hamburg [9/28/2014
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175 NSC.Senior.Director .................................................................................................................................. :Mr..Reiner .........................................................................................:9/25/2014 .............................

OSTP, White House !Dr. Holdren !9/25/2014
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178 Director USTDA......................................................................................................................................... !Ms .. Zak ...........................................................................................)9/28/2014 .............................

179 Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited
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180 Chairman, Rosemont Seneca !Mr. Eiden !9/25/2014
181 Chairman and CEO, The Asia Group \Dr. Campbell \9 /28/2014
182 President and CEO, Swadesh Chatterjee and Associates !Mr. Chatterjee !9/25/2014
183 CEO, Enscient )Ms. Collins [9/25/2014
184 Bclfer.Center's. India and.South Asia Program,.Harvard UniversitY ................................................... )Mr.. Desai...........................................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
185 Chairman ofSyntel !Mr. Desai !9/28/2014
186 Activist . \Ms. Duggal :9/25/2014
187 Social .Secretary.to VP................................................................................................................................. !Mr.. Elizondo ..................................................................................)9/25/2014 .............................
188 Tech. Entrepreneur...................................................................................................................................... .\Mr .. Ghelani ........................................................................................\9/25/2014 .............................
Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University :Mr. Kahl !9/25/2014
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190 CEO & Pharmacist, Centrex !Mr. Mantena !9/25/2014
191 Deputy Chief of Staff to. the.Vice.President ........................................................................................... !Ms .. lvlurray.......................................................................................!9/25/2014 .............................
192 Chiefof Staff to Dr. Eiden \Ms. Nix \9/25/2014
193 Chairman/ Asian American Hotel Owners Association !Mr. Patel !9/25/2014
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194 President & CEO/ Vital Spring jDr. Potarazu j9/25/2014
195 Chiefof Staff to the Vice President !Mr. Ricchetti !9/25/2014
196 CEO, Shah Associates !Dr. V. Shah !9/25/2014
197 President and CEO/ABSi Corporation \Mr. Sharma }/25/2014
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201 Partner/Avenue Ventures !Mr. Zuberi !9/25/2014
202 Counselor to the Vice President ! !9/28/2014
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205 Senior Fellow for. India,. Pakistan,. and .South. Asia,. CFR ...................................................................... )Dr ..Ayres ...........................................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
206 Director General, CII ),fr. Banerjee !9/25/2014
207 ........................................................................................................................................................................,.........................................................................................................,...!9/25/2014
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208 The Rock Creek Group !Ms. Beschloss !9/25/2014
209 President, FICCI and Chairman, Xpro India Ltd. \Mr. Birla }/25/2014
210 Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, CSIS !Mr. Bower !9/25/2014
211 Executive Vice President and Head oflnternational Affairs, LT.S. Chamber of Commerce )Mr. Brilliant !9/25/2014
212 CII !Ms. Dash !9/25/2014
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213 Resident Fellow, AEI; Columnist, WS !Mr. Dhume !9/25/2014
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214 A . (Fontaine !Richard !Mr. (M
215 A [ )nderfurth [Karl )Mr. M f
216 A......... L......................................... )ain............................[Seema ........................................)Dr....., JF .............
217 A i Jaishankar !Dhruva jMr. [M
218 A 1 1Kansara Jay :Mr. >r
219 A....... ...f ............................................. [Kapoor .................. ...f Rana ........................................... 1.Mr...... JM ........... .
220 A 1 1Kathwari !Farooq )1r. [M
221 A i [Lall iVivek !Dr. LM..............
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224 A 1 1Neocia !Harshvardhan :Mr. [M
225 A i (Pachauri IRK !Mr. LM
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228 A 1 1Prasad !Adapa :Dr. [M
229 A ! !Reuben !Nissim !Mr. !M
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215 Senior Advisor (non-resident), CSIS . )Mr. Inderfurth [9/25/2014
216 President.Elect.of the .American.Association of Physicians .of.Indian. Origin .................................. .JDr. Jain ..............................................................................................[9 /25/2014 .............................
217 Transatlantic Fellow, Asia, German Marshall Fund of the United States jMr. Jaishankar j9 /25/2014
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229 Assistant Dirccwr AJC.Asia-Pacific.Instirntc ......................................................................................... !Mr._Reuben ......................................................................................}9/25/2014 .............................
230 Director, Government Relations, U.S. Enrichment Company (USEC) \Dr. Sazawal j9 /25/2014
231 Nonresident Senior Fellow, .Brookings.Institution ............................................................................. ...JAmb .Schaffer ...................................................................................[9/25/2014 .............................
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236 President, ST Group jMr. Tak !9/25/2014
237 DataWind !Mr. Tuli !9/28/2014
238 Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace !Dr. Vaishnav !9/25/2014
239 Chairman/CEO HSMC !Dr. Verma }/25/2014
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297 R ....... ..JDesk Add........................... [Powell.**Regret .... .JNancy ........................................!T.H.... \f ............ .
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289 Times. Group. (former.head) ...................................................................................................................... L..........................................................................................................L...............................................
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293 Director (Amelia. Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala) \Ms. Nair j
294 Music.Composer ....................................................................................................................................... ..JMs .. Shankar ......................................................................................l., ...............................................
295 Actor jMr. Spacey i
296 Washington Post Columnist \Mr. Ignatius \
297 Former U.S .. Ambassador to.India............................................................................................................!Ambassador_Powell ......................................................................... !. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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301 Special Representative jMr. O'Brien j
302 Under Secretary .for .Public. Affairs............................................................................................................ iMr .. Stengel .......................................................................................}............................................... ..
303 Fmr. Defense Secretary, The Cohen Group \Mr. Cohen/Sen. Cohen j
304 Fmr..Secretary.of.State, Albright Stonebridge ...................................................................................... ..)Dr. Albright ......................................................................................[.. ............................................. ..
305 .Fmr.. Secretary. of State, .Rice-Hadley-Gates ........................................................................................... :Dr..Rice .............................................................................................1.................................................
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308 Speaker.of the House .............................................................................................................................. ...)Mr.. Boehner......................................................................................l,. ...............................................

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326 R !NGO !Dutt**Regret !Mallika !Ms. !F
327 R !Protocol [Margo! **Regret [Rodney )Mr. M f
328 R..........[S Guest ............................ [Nohria **Regret.... ..[Nitin .......................................... L. . . . .,J ............ ..
329 R !State Gov !Halev**Regret !Nikki !T.H. J
330 R 1State Gov 1Harris **Regret !Kamala !T.H. :r
331 R [State Gov !Jindal **Regret [Piyush "Bobby" ]T.H. !M
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334 R 1USG 1Bernard **Regret Jeremy jMr. fM
335 R......... )usc.................................... [Collins. **Regret .... _/rrancis .......................................!Dr...... ]11 ...........
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340 R......... ) USG-NSC.......................... :Blinken **Regret... ) Anthony .................................... :T.H .... :M.......... ..
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346 R 1 1Biackwill **Regret !Robert jMr. 1M
347 R....... ...f .............................................}Khan.**Regret ...... ..f salman .......................................!Mr. ..... \M ........... .
348 R 1 1Laipson **Regret !Ellen jMs. \F
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354 P......... )Business ............................. !Cote .**Pending__ .. )David ......................................... :Mr...... !11 ...........
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326 Founder, President and CEO, Breakthrough !Ms. Dutt !
327 Attoney, Partner at Margo! and Margo! )J\Ir. Margo! [
328 Dean of Harvard Business School ! !
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329 Governor of South Carolina :Governor Halev :
330 Attorney General California !Ms. Harris . I
331 Govern~r.ofLouisiana ............................................................................................................................... ].Governor Jindal ...............................................................................[.................................................
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333 Governor of Massachusetts !Governor Patrick !
334 Social Secretary jMr. Bernard j
335 Director National.Imtitutes. of Health····· ................................................................................................ jDr. .Collins ......................................................................................... !. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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340 Deputy National.Security.Advisor............................................................................................................ :Mr.. Blinken ....................................................................................) ............................................... ..

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345 Former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs jMr. Verma !
346 Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, CFR jMr. Blackwill j
347 Director for Strategic.Planning, National.Security.Council ..................................................................!Mr..Khan..........................................................................................J .................................................

348 CEO, .Stimson. Center................................................................................................................................. :.\is .. Laipson.......................................................................................:.................................................
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353 Co-Founder,.Google.................................................................................................................................. .JMr.. Brin ............................................................................................,l.. ...............................................
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SubJect: Ukraine Economic Update
Protesters at Rada
Press reported that between 300 and 600 people protested at the Rada today with various motivations
cited for the demonstrations. One source said small businesses were gathering to oppose mandated use
of cash registers and VAT reforms. Others were demanding support for a bill that guarantees private
deposits and allows NBU removal of insolvent banks from the market (measure 2045A), and another
that facilitates deposit transfers from insolvent institutions to functioning banks (measure 2188-1).
IMF Bills
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Creditors, Gou Trade Blame in Debt Talks

Vitaliy Lisovenko, Ukraine's envoy for public debt management, said Ukraine could impose a debt
moratorium almost immediately if today's meeting with creditors in Washington, with the participation
of the IMF, fails to break the deadlock in talks. Suspending payments could push Ukraine into fully
fledged default. It would also allow bondholders to demand immediate repayment on the country's
entire stock of bonds. In response to questions over the risk of creditors seizing Ukraine's assets,
Lisovenko responded that "There are no assets, unfortunately." In a press release issued by the Finance
Ministry on June 29, Jaresko said she was ready to meet with the creditors' committee "without
preconditions" if the committee agreed to enter into a confidentiality agreement. The bondholders'
committee responded today that Finance Minister's legal team is blocking them from signing the
confidentiality agreement.
New Economic Figures and Projections Released

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) approved new macroeconomic indicators last week forecasting a
9.5% GDP decline and 48% inflation in 2015, as well as a 3% GDP increase and 12% inflation in 2016.
The NBU attributed its upward revision of inflation to rising prices in Ql and Q2. The NBU said that its
macroeconomic forecast is based on the assumptions that the ceasefire will hold, enterprises in Donetsk
and Luhansk regions would gradually start operating, and competitiveness of Ukrainian goods and
services would increase as a result of currency devaluation.
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Separately, the Finance ministry reported last week that Ukraine's consolidated budget ran a cash
surplus of UAH 19.4bn ($0.9bn) in May 2015, improving drastically from a UAH 8.0bn ($0.8bn) deficit in
May 2014.
Gas Discount Set for Q3

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev signed a resolution on gas supplies to Ukraine that sets the gas price
at $247.18 per thousand cubic meters for the 3 rd quarter of 2015, roughly equal to the current price of
$248. The discount decreased from $ 100 to $39.9 per 1000 cubic meters, keeping the overall price at
the current level despite a decline in the world oil prices. The discount takes the form of a reduced gas
export duty. Trilateral gas talks involving Ukraine, Russian, and the EU convene today in Vienna to
discuss the deal on offer. Market commentators note that the lower discount may prompt Ukraine to
cut gas purchases and reconsider its earlier plan to accumulate 19 bcm of gas in storage before the
heating season, as the 19 bcm target assumed a 3Q15 gas price of approx. $195/tcm. At the start of the
previous heating season last fall, Naftogaz Ukrainy had close to 17 bcm of gas in storage, which may
become its new target for this year.
Privatbank Requests Reprofile

Privatbank, Ukraine's largest bank, followed in other Ukrainian Eurobond issuers' footsteps and asked
creditors to reprofile their debt. Privatbank's public statement referred to an NBU resolution obliging
the bank to reschedule its external obligations. The bank asked the holders of its $200m September
2015 Eurobond to approve a 2.5-year extension and holders of $150m subordinated notes due 2016 to
approve a 5-year extension, with coupon increases from 9.375% to 10% and 5.799% to 11% respectively.
Bondholder meetings are scheduled for July 13.
Former Roshen Executive Appointed as Chief Regulator

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appointed Dmytro Vovk as acting head of the National
Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) yesterday. Vovk
worked as a the Russian sales manager for Poroshenko's Roshen company in 2013-2014. Before
working at Roshen, Vovk worked as the assistant to the vice president of corporate finances for
Investment Capital of Ukraine (ICU), a former employee of which, Volodymyr Demchyshyn, headed the
commission in 2014. In autumn of the same year Demchyshyn was appointed as Energy and Coal
Industry Minister of Ukraine.
Currency
The exchange rate averaged 21.02 UAH/$ at interbank market as of noon today.
Note: The Ukraine Economic Update is an uncleared product drawn from a variety of third-party
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Subject: -f5Bttt Euromaidan Protest Sitrep #42 - Tuesday (December 11) - 24:00
Summary: The crowd on Maidan has reportedly grown in recent hours, possibly in response to an
announcement by activist leaders that the GOU plans "provocations" for 2 a.m. Multiple reports
indicate large numbers of activists en route from western Ukraine to join the Kyiv protests. Meanwhile,
the GOU is reportedly planning a (heavily astroturfed) pro-Yanukovych protest for this weekend.
Oligarch Serhiy Tigipko called for a cabinet reshuffle, and five Party of Regions (POR) members of the
Lviv City Council left the party. End Summary.
**This is an uncleared Sitrep. Some information is unconfirmed.**
Protest Activity
• In the past two hours, RBK Ukraine reports that the crowd on Maidan has increased from
30,000 to 50,000. This may be a response to the announcement by Yuriy Lutsenko and Vitaliy
Klytchko that according to anonymous sources, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) plans "new
provocations" at 2:00 a.m. They asked Kyivites to come to the Maidan's defense.
• A fifth Bankova protestor/detainee was released from custody after being found guilty and
charged an $850 fine.
• Opposition organizations called for citizens from Western Ukraine (Lviv, Ternopil and lvano-
Frankivsk regions) to come to Kyiv in support of the opposition movement. They are
anticipating 70,000 from the West on Thursday the 12th in Kyiv. [Comment: this seems like a
rather optimistic anticipation. End comment.]
• Channel 5 reported from Chernivtsi that 50 vehicles left late today for Kyiv to join the crowd at
Maidan. Chernivtsi activists are organizing buses for those without cars.
• Tonight in Cherkassy, law enforcement forces dispersed Euromaidan supporters who were
collecting supplies for protesters in Kyiv. A tent being use by MPs Mykola Tomenko and Yuri
Sirotyuk was taken away as well as money and food meant for EuroMaidan.
• Euromaidan activists filed two appeals against the court order to vacate the Federation of Trade
Unions building, which they are using as a makeshift headquarters. They produced documents
showing they have permission from the owners to occupy the buildings.
External Activity
• The popular Polish tabloid "Fakt'' published a Ukrainian language cover for today's print edition
showing solidarity with Ukraine and hope for its EU future.
• The Georgian parliament adopted a statement on Wednesday which "expresses its full
solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for freedom of choice."
• Pro-Euromaidan rallies were held in 20 international cities today including Prague, Rome,
Barcelona, Brussels, Moscow and other European capitals.
• In an interview on Russian television, famous Russian actress Lea Akhedzhakova said she's
watching developments in Maidan closely and admires the protesters' courage.
Government Activity
• ZN.UA is reporting the GOU has ordered the Ministry of Defense to provide meals and shelter
for 200,000 "civilians" who will come to Kiev during the weekend to participate in pro-
Yanukovych protests.
• According to information provided by the ex-minister of The Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri
Lutsenko, the premises of "The Palace of Sports" in Kyiv are being prepared as "housing for
thousands of police officers from the Berkut special units."
• President Yanukovych released a statement inviting representatives of all political parties,
clergy, and representatives of civic society to discuss possible solutions.
• The Kyiv Court of Appeals upheld the 60 day pre-trial detention of Svoboda's Alexander
Solonenko. He is accused of hooliganism during the protest near the Lenin monument in Kiev
on December 1st.
• Boryspil International Airport and Zhuliany airport resumed operations after "bomb threats"
earlier in the evening.
• A military spokesman confirmed that several buses with MIA troops left Crimea for Kyiv today,
and will ensure public order during mass events - per Channel 5.
• The Svoboda candidate in the by-election in District 197 reported that the GOU opened criminal
proceedings against him for anti-Semitism and incitement to over
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• After the planned meeting with the European Commission was cancelled, EU Enlargement
Commissioner Stefan Fule has agreed to meet with First Deputy PM Serhiy Arbuzov on
December 12 to discuss the association agreement.
• Oligarch Serhiy Tigipko, currently a lawmaker in the ruling Party of Regions, called on the
authorities to begin talks with the opposition in order to reshuffle the government and approve
a "100 Day" action plan to move toward European integration. His estimated net worth is $1.2
billion. [Note: One analyst interpreted this as a move by Tihipko, gas and chemical oligarch
Dmytro Firtash, and presidential Chief of Staff Serhiy Lyvochkin against PM Azarov. End note.]
• Svoboda Leader Oleg Tyahnybok released a statement that they must receive a mandate from
the citizens before any talks with Yanukovych can proceed. Tyahnybok stressed that the
government should fulfill all demands, in particular the release of imprisoned activists and not
to use force against Euromaidan.
• All five Party of Regions members on the Lviv City Council have now left the party. No word yet
on whether they will remain independent, or join the opposition.
• Tymoshenko called on foreign governments to introduce financial and visa sanctions against
GOU authorities.
• Poland has spoken out most vocally about sanctions - both pro- and anti-. The Polish FM and
PM both said it was too early to consider sanctions, though PM Tusk did said that "the Ukrainian
question" will be the main topic of discussion at the upcoming Council of Europe meeting on
December 19. On the other hand, the leader of the largest opposition party argued that the EU
should use personal sanctions against those involved in the use of force. European Parliament
Member Richard Fernetski said the EP will consider sanctions against GOU officials on December
12.
Economic Developments
• PM Azarov said today that Ukraine would need $20 billion in assistance from the EU if it signs
the Association Agreement. European Commission spokesman Olivier Bailey was quoted by
Deutsche Welle as saying,, "The material well-being and future of Ukraine should not become
the subject of trading, where the one who offers the highest price wins."
• Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavitsky said that Ukraine planned to sign an MOU
on reverse flow of gas with Slovakia next week. [Comment: this is a matter of great annoyance
to Russia, and it seems unlikely he will carry through on the MOU, at least until the EU-Russia
direction is decided. End comment.]
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Starting November 1 Naftogaz will sell gas at cheaper prices to industrial consumers in order
to compete with private gas producers. Previously Naftogaz had to sell at rates determined by
the Regulator. The natural gas market law changed that.
A draft law on tax reform was registered with the Rada by the head of the Tax Committee Nina
Yuzhanina and authored by 120 MPs representing several Rada factions. While the draft law lowers the
tax burden on businesses, it has been criticized for its negative impact on the budget and on Ukraine's
ability to implement the IMF program.
Ukraine will enact a debt payment moratorium and will not be repaying the $3 billion loan to
Russia if Russia does not agree to the debt restructuring, PM Yatsenyuk said in the interview to German
Handelsblatt. The deadline for the restructuring offer is October 29th, Yatsenyuk said.
_ _ _ The GoU supports a comprehensive program to implement efficiency and safety improvements
to the country's nuclear fleet, Westinghouse President and CEO Danny Roderick said following his
meeting with President Poroshenko and PM Yatsenyuk on October 26.
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journalist Dubynsky claims that he has documents proving that
Hontareva's family was able to withdraw over UAH 13 million ($600,000) from Delta in February of
2015, right before the introduction of the provisional administration into the bank, at the time when
ordinary depositors were getting not more than UAH 1000 ($46). He also says that earlier Hontareva's
statement that her son has lost a UAH 800,000 ($37,000) deposit in Delta is not true.
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Subject: Euromaidan Protest Sitrep - Monday, January 20, 08:45
(SRU) ~uromaidan Protest Situation Report: Tuesday, Jan 21- 08:45
Summary: Clashes on Hrushevskoho Street near Dynamo stadium continue, with little ground gained by
either side during the night. Berkut destroyed a protester-erected barricade on Hrushevskoho and the
protesters' trebuchet. Approximately 2000 security forces and several hundred protesters are present,
with approximately SO protesters actively engaging the security forces, with both sides using weapons
and projectiles. Hostilities paused briefly as priests conducted a religious service between the two
groups. Protests on the Maidan remain peaceful despite persistent rumors of an imminent sweep of the
Maidan by security forces. Busloads of titushky are arriving in Kyiv on a so-called "titushky safari,"
damaging the cars of suspected protesters and moving other cars to block traffic. Automaidan and
other protesters caught some of the titushky and interrogated them during a live "press conference"
broadcast online. Euromaidan leader lhor Lutsenko was kidnapped from a Kyiv hospital by five unknown
assailants. Mobile phone companies sent a message to subscribers whose phones were located in the
vicinity of the Hrushevskoho conflict, identifying them as riot participants. End Summary.
Protest Activity
• Euromaidan leader lhor Lutsenko was kidnapped from a Kyiv hospital at approximately 05:00 by
five unknown assailants. Activists suspect the State Security Service (SBU) is behind the
kidnapping.
• Protests continue on Hrushevskoho, with both sides using weapons and projectiles. GOU forces
have adopted a defensive posture and greatly outnumber protesters at present.
• Priests conducted a religious service at approximately 07:00 between the two sides, halting
hostilities briefly.
• Protesters plan a march for 08:30 this morning in support of seven students of the National
Theater University detained while walking back from the Maidan.
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• Protesters in Rivne continue to block the exit of a Berkut base there to prevent the
transportation of reinforcements to Kyiv. Social media report the same at various MIA barracks
throughout the country, with some parents blockading their own sons inside to prevent them
from being sent to Kyiv.
• Mobile phone companies Kyivstar and MTS sent an SMS message of intimidation to subscribers
whose phones were located in the vicinity of Hurshevskoho. The message reads: "Dear
subscriber, you are registered as a member of the riots."
Government Activity
• Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka told the press that the protests have gone beyond
"hooliganism" and now constitute a "national security threat."
• Social media and on line newspapers report a steady stream of buses filled with titushky arriving
in Kyiv. The titushky are roaming the city in groups ranging from five people to several hundred,
moving cars to block streets and reportedly damaging the cars of suspected protesters. Some
are armed with sticks and hammers. Some scuffles between titushky and protesters have been
reported throughout the city.
• Automaidan activists apprehended a group of 10 titushky and took them to the TUB for
interrogation, which was broadcast live online. The titushky said they had been paid up to $30
to come to Kyiv and "smash cars, block roads, cause disorder, and start fights."
• Media sites have begun agglomerating twitter posts about the location of titushky groups,
tracking the so-called "titushky safari."
• Social media report that police are stationed around the clock in hospitals and are arresting
those who come in with trauma wounds.
• Media report that military tents are being erected on the outskirts of Kyiv to house MIA
reinforcements.
• Former Interior Ministery Yuriy Lutsenko told the press that no progress was made in
negotiations with the GOU, as the GOU did not offer a response to protester demands.
• The mayor of lvano-Frankivsk told the press he will not enforce the January 16 laws passed by
the Rada, adding that he is "not afraid of prison."
• UDAR leader Vitaliy Klychko said he plans to meet again today with President Yanukovych to
repeat the opposition's demands after Yanukovych did not participate in talks with the
opposition.
• Klychko also told the press that the titushky have been sent to Kyiv to cause further havoc and
allow President Yanukovych to declare martial law.
External Activity
• Polish FM Radek Sikorski told the press that not a single EU FM asked to impose sanctions on
the GOU during the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Brussels yesterday evening.
• Freedom House president David Kramer issued a new call for sanctions against Ukrainian
officials.
• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement calling for restraint from all sides.
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Clarification:
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source. Post has no reports of Respiratory Disease in Ukraine.
There is an announcement on the Ministry of Internal Affairs website stating that officers were
hospitalized for flu-like symptoms due to exposure. Post will clarify in the am.
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Subject: ~Euromaidan Protest Sitrep #36 -Tuesday (12/10) - 21:10
(SBU) Euromaidan Protest Sitrep #36 - Tuesday (12/10) - 21:10
**This is an uncleared Sitrep. Some information may be unconfirmed.**
Summary: A 4th bomb threats in two days shuts down the Maidan and Khreshatyk Metro Stations, and
45 riot police have been hospitalized with acute respiratory viral diseases (SARS). Ukraine's General
Prosecutor's Office said that it does not intend to help Pres. Yanukovych fulfill his statement of leniency
toward the protestors, as Ukraine's SBU claims to know nothing about who threatened the Georgian
journalists. President Yanukovych said the Ukrainian administration is now working on resolving all
problems with Russia, primarily the gas problem. He said that Europe will sleep calmly and "warmly" if
Ukraine has good relations with Russia. Former President Kravchuk volunteered to lead a "bilateral"
commission between the EU and Ukraine which will also include consultations with Russia. After a 3.5
hour meeting, EU Foreign Policy Chief Ashton visited the Maidan for an interview to the great
excitement of the crowd. A/S Nu land met with opposition leaders Poroshenko, Pinchuk, Kuch ma,
Patriarch Filaret, and the EU. According to press reports, in her meeting today A/S Nu land stated "The
United States intends to remain engaged, we are working in lockstep with the European Union to try to
restore peace, human dignity, a path to Europe and economic stability here." But she said the US sees
no cause to impose sanctions. The European Parliament will vote on Thursday whether to keep the AA
on the table for Ukraine. Meanwhile, an alliance of liberals and democrats from the Europarliament is
setting up a "representational" office on the Maidan. Finally Yanukovych said that Ukraine doesn't need
loans from the IMF if they come with their current conditions, but he's open to resuming talks. End
Summary.
Protest Activity:
• The General Prosecutor's Office does not intend to fulfill Pres. Yanukovych's statement of leniency-
Gen prosecutor will leave it to courts to decide whether pre-trial measures or detentions could be
adjusted, but they are still going forward with prosecutions.
• Donetsk Deputy Oblast Chair says they'll send PoR supporters to Kyiv to help defend the Ukraine
authorities.
• 45 riot police have been hospitalized with respiratory infections - claimed to be acute respiratory
viral diseases (SARS).
• Leaders of three opposition parties - Arseniy Yatseniuk, Vitali Klitschko and Oleh Tiahnybok - gave
speeches at 7 p.m. on Independence square (Maidan). Yatsenyuk claimed that one of the main
objectives of the opposition is to convince Western partners and IMF to provide a loan to Ukraine.
"We need to immediately resume negotiations with our Western partners and IMF. We need this to
ensure Ukraine's sovereignty, not to allow Russia to buy Ukraine for a penny, and to sign the EU
association agreement."
• Yatsenyuk also stated that the current opposition/Maidan strategy is to concentrate all of the
protesters in the Maidan, with occasional "partisan" sorties out of the Maidan.
• Ukraine's largest and most influential interfaith group, All-Ukraine Council of Churches and
Religious Organizations published a statement appealing to members of various religious groups to
pray for peace, reconciliation and settlement of the conflict.
• EU Foreign Policy Chief Ashton visited the Maidan for an interview -said she had a 3.5 hour meeting
with Yanukovych and she'll be meeting with the Opposition later tonight. She'll have a press
conference tomorrow. She wanted to see with her own eyes what Maidan looked like.
• Police spokesman says they only have in their possession computers of media outlets from a
neighboring building as Batkivshchyna HQ -- not the party's computer.
• "As of today, four more reporters are registering cases of (police) abuse and 19 have been opened.
Out of the nineteen, one reporter is Polish and 18 are local journalists working for the Ukrainian and
foreign mass media outlets," Tomenko said.
• Ukraine's SBU Claims to know nothing about those who threatened the Georgian journalists.
• Ukraine's Ministry of Justice opened a hotline for students who are under pressure from their
university administration for participating in protests.
• Kyiv residents are asked to spend 3 hours shifts on the Maidan tonight.
• A 4th bomb threats in two days shuts down the Maidan and Khreshatyk Metro Stations.
External Activity:
• EU stands ready to "help and support Ukraine on its modernization journey, including through
topping up IMF loans with macro-financial assistance; by stepping up the European Union's financial
assistance programs to help Ukraine implement the Agreement, when it is signed, and helping to
bring on board other international partners." (Stated by EU Commissioner for Enlargement and
European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule).
• Local leader reports at a meeting for "stabilizing the political situation" that Lithuanians told him
about terrible eggs made with European technology.
Roundtable Quotes:
• Yanukovych: "Berkut dispersed Maydan in response to the protesters' attack."

• Yanukovych: "When there is any injustice to people, it really affects me."
• Yanukovych: "As soon as we find mutual understanding and a compromise will be found, we will
put our signature under it ... We need to do this work before March."
• Yanukovych: "In 2014 we need to approve a budget. We need to find all decisions with strategic
partners. We need to look for export markets for our goods. Europe will sleep calmly and "warmly"
if Ukraine has good relations with Russia."
• Kravchuk: "In a civilized world, when people do mass riots, they are taken to the cars and then an
investigation is conducted. But they don't beat them!"
Government Activity:
• lvano-Frankivsk Oblast council attempted to dismiss the pro- Yanukovych governor -- but failed.
• Chernivtsi Oblast Council denies the legitimacy of the local Euro-council that was created by
protesters unhappy with the policy/actions of their oblast government.
• Lutsenko says ex-presidents round table only an imitation of dialog Real dialogue would have to
include society and reps from Maidan.
• In Donetsk, Deputy Governor Olexander Kravtsov convened a meeting of a recently created
"Headquarters to stabilize the current political situation." All senior party members were told to go
meet people and "explain the situation" so that average citizens don't get misinformed by the
opposition through TV and Internet.
• Yanukovych said the Ukrainian administration is now working on resolving all problems with Russia,
primarily the gas problem. "Russia has agreed to discuss gas prices for Ukraine."
• First Ukrainian President Kravchuk volunteered to lead a "bilateral" commission to normalize
relations between Ukraine and the European Union. Though he added "when issues related to
trade categories are addressed, which could involve economic losses for Russia, for Ukraine, and for
other parties, there will be consultations with Russia, but the commission will be bilateral."
• Olexander Yefremov, Party of Regions VR faction leader hailed the roundtable, saying "We've made
the first steps on the way of finding a negotiated solution. We don't know the real reasons why
some of the opposition leaders could not make it to the meeting today (but)we invite all of them to
come and meet tomorrow, then we'll see who doesn't care about the coutry's future, and who is
not interested in finding a way out."
• Ukrainska Pravda reports that an extended agreement with the House of Trade Union and
Zhovtneviy Palats will last until December 25, the end of their lease.
Political Developments:
• A/S Nuland met with opposition leaders Poroshenko, Pinchuk, Kuchma, Patriarch Filaret, and the
EU. Tomorrow she plans to meet with President Yanukovych, Rinat Akhmetov, and former Deputy
PM Tigipko.
• According to press reports, in her meeting today with opposition leaders A/S Nu land stated "The
United States intends to remain engaged, we are working in lockstep with the European Union to try
to restore peace, human dignity, a path to Europe and economic stability here." But the US sees no
cause to impose sanctions. She said it was a "productive session."
• Yuriy Lutsenko said that A/S Nu land's rethoric today was pretty tough and she has sent a clear
message to Ukraine's authorities: Ukraine must stop sliding to an authoritarian state; violence is not
acceptable; and the authorities should by no means use force again.
• European Parliament voted unanimously to show its solidarity with the Euromaidan protesters.
They will vote on Thursday about keeping the AA on the table for Ukraine. They also plan to discuss
any possible roles for Europarliament in resolving the current political crisis.
• An alliance of liberals and democrats from the Europarliament is setting up a "representational"
office on the Maidan. Representatives of the group promise to be a fixed presence on the Maindan
to support the peaceful pro-european demonstration. Guy Verkhovstat, head of the alliance, made
the announcement in Strasbourg today, adding, "We should be able to guarantee visits by our
members on a rotational basis in Kyiv in support of peaceful demonstrations."
• Yanukovych said Ukraine will soon resume talks with the IMF, and that "If there are conditions that
suit us, we will take that path." He further stated, however, that the present conditions put forward
by the IMF were unacceptable. Yanukovych said "I had a conversation with U.S. Vice President
Joseph Bi den, who told me that the issue of the IMF loan has almost been solved, but I told him that
if the conditions remained ... we did not need such loans."
• In Sochi, "No documents were expected to be signed and, naturally, no documents were signed
during the meeting," Yevheniy Perebyinis, director of the information policies department of the
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said at a briefing on Tuesday. The Sochi meeting addressed a broad
range of issues relating to bilateral cooperation in the financial, industrial, and IT spheres.
• On December 13, the Ukrainian delegation plans to take part in the 60th meeting of the CIS
Economic Council in Moscow. There are 28 issues on the agenda. "Special attention will be given to
the aspects of the realization of the treaty of a free trade zone of October 18, 2011".
• It was reported that EU Amb Tombinski attended the Ashton-Yanukovych meeting.
• EU says deal for Slovakian gas to Ukraine can be signed this week.
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Federal News Service Transcript
Full House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on "Ukraine Under

Siege"
Full committee hearing on "Ukraine Under Siege"
Subject: Ukraine Under Siege Participants: Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building Time: 10:00:00
Date: 2015-03-04
ROYCE: Ambassador Nuland, welcome.
This hearing will come to order, and our topic today is "Ukraine Under Siege." And Ukraine is under siege by Russia
at this moment. Unfortunately, the response to Russians -- Russia's aggression by the administration has been quite
tepid. A year ago, Russia Invaded and seized Crimea, and some thought that Vladimir Putin would stop there, not so.
And last April, Eliot Engel and I led a delegation to Ukraine. We traveled to the Russian- speaking East, I think we
had eight members on that delegation. We went into (inaudible), which is bordering Luhansk and Donetsk, and I -- I
have to share with the members here that the many Ukrainians that -- and these are Russian speaking Ukrainians in
the Far East that Mr. Engel and I met with, wanted to be Ukrainians, they did not want to be separatists.
We spoke to the women's groups there, to the lawyers groups, civil society, the Jewish group, various ethnic
minorities, the governor, the mayor. At Passover, Mr. Engel spoke at the largest Jewish community center in Eastern
Europe, largest synagogue.
ROYCE: And I can just share with the members here what Alan will attest to. the attitude was they -- one of the
thoughts shared with us is it seems that Russia has recruited every skinhead and malcontent in the Russian-speaking
world, and are trying to bring them into the East. And they say we're - - we're holding them in the brig here until
hostilities are over, because we can spot them. But they're coming in from Russia in order to try to overthrow our
government.
And -- so, so we've seen this situation where Moscow moves -- move from annexing Crimea to aggressively
supporting militant separatists in Eastern Ukraine, and, indeed, bringing Russian troops into the country. And Russia
may now try to secure a land bridge to Crimea. That is the -- the -- the great concern here. That was the worry we
hear, that they would further expand this conflict, that they might try to seize the strategic port of Mariupol.
Now, when we talk to the U.N. agencies on the ground, they count over 6,000 civilians who have been killed in this --
in this conflict. There are 1.7 million Ukrainians that have now been made refugees. To date, the actions taken by the
U.S. and our EU allies, including economic sanctions, and aid, and diplomatic isolation, have not checked Putin.
Indeed, over the past year, he has become bolder, even menacing NATO countries as he seeks to divide the
alliance. The Obama administration and our European allies have put hope in diplomatic and cease-fire
arrangements, but it is not working.
Last week, I met with the first deputy speaker of the Ukrainian parliament who said that his country urgently needs
anti-tank weapons, such as the javelin. He needs radar to pinpoint enemy fire in order to do the counter -- counter
battery work to suppress that artillery. And he needs communications equipment to overcome Russian jamming.
Ukrainian forces cannot math the advanced equipment that Russia is pouring into Eastern Ukraine. And, by the way,
when you see tanks come into Eastern Ukraine, those are not Ukrainians in those tanks. Those are Russians. There
is no shortage of the will to fight, only a shortage of defensive weapons. But at the committee's hearing last week,
Secretary Kerry said that President Obama has still not made a decision on whether to send defensive lethal military
aid to Ukraine.
Six months after President Poroshenko told a joint session of Congress, in his words, one cannot win the war with
blankets, it was not surprising, but still discouraging, to see him have to shop for defensive weapons. And,
unfortunately, it has been very, very difficult for Ukraine to find any defensive weapons. And I was just as discouraged
to read in this weekend's Wall Street Journal that U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine keeps Ukraine in the dark.
Satellite images are delayed and obscured, making them less useful. Frustrated, Ukraine is approaching other
countries, like Canada, to share such information. This isn't U.S. leadership.
Moscow is also undermining Ukraine's economy. Today, Russia is using its natural gas and other energy sources for
political corrosion and to generate economic chaos in the country. Ukraine is facing an economic precipice. It
desperately needs help. Meanwhile, Russia is winning the battle on the airwaves, and they are doing it by
broadcasting out conspiracy theories and propaganda. Anyone who's monitored what's been up on the air is well --
well aware that this propaganda is offensive, is aimed at sowing confusion and undermining opposition to its
aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere.
But we are barely in the game of countering this with the facts. As I told the secretary last week, I'd like to see more
administration support for the effort Mr. Engel and I have undertaken to reform out international broadcasting. The
Broadcasting Board of Governors is broken. If we can't begin to change minds, then the struggle over Ukraine today
will become a generational struggle for the future of Eastern Europe. Ukraine's fate has security implications for well
beyond its borders.
Now, we passed this bill into the Senate last year. We were not able to bring it up and -- and get it out of the Senate.
We did not have the administration's support for it. But we have vetted this and have a great deal of support in this
institution for getting back in -- up on the air with radio for Europe, radio liberty type broadcasting that we did years
ago to great effect with a message that will get the truth effectively into Eastern Europe and into Russia.ROYCE: It is
time for strong and unwavering support of Ukraine. It is time for this right now. And many of these committee
members on this committee, I believe, are concerned U.S. policy toward Ukraine may soon become too little, too late.
And I now turn to the ranking member for any opening remarks that Mr. Engel of New York, might wish to make.
ENGEL: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for calling this very timely and important hearing. At the
outset I want to acknowledge the Ukrainian Day's participants who are in the audience today.
Ambassador Nuland, welcome back. We thank you for testifying today. We thank you for your decades of service.
And on a personal basis, let me also say that I have had the pleasure of working with you and I am a fan of your hard
work, knowledge and tenacity. Thank you for all you do.
In Ukraine the events of the past year and the ongoing Russian aggression threatens the security and stability of the
entire region and undermines decades of American commitment to and investment in Europe that is whole, free and
at peace. In fact, this is a threat to the whole international order.
So today we face grave questions: what can and should be done and who should contribute to solving this problem.
The United States is providing substantial assistance to the government of Ukraine, including billions of dollars in loan
guarantees and nonlethal military aid. We have also imposed significant sanctions on Russia. We sanctioned officials
supporting Russia's aggression in Ukraine and targeted key sectors of the Russian economy.
And we have seen results. Russia's economy has been taking on water, and this has only been magnified by the
recent dip in oil prices. These policies are good but only up to a point. They don't go far enough in my opinion.
Russia's military gains in Ukraine have slowed but Putin continues to grab land along the line of contact in violation of
the Minsk cease-fire agreement, which mandates that Russian-supported rebels pull back their forces.
The government in Kiev is committed to reform but leaders there struggle every day to preserve Ukrainian
sovereignty. And while our financial assistance has kept Ukraine's economy afloat, they still confront a bleak
economic outlook and the risks of a financial meltdown loom large. Now when Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in
1994, the United States made a commitment to help protect Ukrainian territorial integrity. That commitment was also
made by Russia, U.K., China, other countries as well, but now our commitment is being tested.
Let me also say that I think NATO made a grave mistake in 2008 when it refused to admit Ukraine and Georgia into
NATO. I know that Germany and France resisted. The United States tried to push it. It didn't work, and I think we are
paying the price today. I don't think that Putin would have been as aggressive if Ukraine was a part of NATO.
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So last month I met with President Poroshenko. Met with him in Europe. His request was simple. Provide Ukraine
with key weapons and military technology to defend itself. Specifically Ukraine needs light antitank missiles to protect
itself and its rebels attacking with heavy Russian-supplied armor, not to evict the thousands of Russian troops inside
Ukrainian borders.
Ukraine needs long-range counter-battery radars to pinpoint attacking artillery and tanks, not to win a protracted war
against Russia's military. And Ukraine needs better communications technology to deal with Russian efforts to jam
their signals, not to advance on Moscow.
I was laughing when the -- at that conference in Munich, Madam Secretary, you and I both attended, to hear the
Russian foreign minister denying that Russian troops were in Ukraine, saying it was just Ukrainian rebels. Lies, lies
and more lies.
I have spoken on the House floor, calling on our government to supply defensive weapons to Ukraine.
So Mr. Chairman, I know you agree with me, Ukraine is not going to win a war against Russia, but it can impose a
greater cost on Vladimir Putin's aggression and slow Russia's advances, and it has a chance to remain on its feet
when all is said and done, if it can impose a greater cost on Putin's aggression and slow Russia's advances.
Yet for nearly a year the administration, along with the vast majority of our European allies, has resisted providing
such assistance. Now to be sure there are risks involved, but there are also risks in allowing Putin to continue his
aggression in Ukraine and to threaten other peaceful neighbors on Russia's periphery.
And if Russia's aggressive pressure on the West reached the frontiers of our NATO allies, the dangers to Europe
increase tremendously. The dangers to the NATO alliance increase tremendously. In December Congress
unanimously passed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act. This legislation authorized the provision of lethal defensive
aid. I was proud to lead House efforts to pass this legislation and happy that President Obama signed it. But I have
been disappointed that the administration has not used any of the tools provided in this law. It is time to ask the hard
question: are we willing to stand up to Vladimir Putin's aggression before he kills more people, does more economic
damage, further destabilizes Europe, and threatens our NATO allies, or are the risks just so great that we will simply
cut our losses? As time passes our options grow fewer and less effective.
That's why I'm announcing today my plan to introduce new legislation. It will offer Ukraine greater assistance on a
variety of fronts. It will dial up the pressure on Vladimir Putin for his reckless, destructive and destabilizing policies.
And it will send a clear message that the United States stands with the people of Ukraine against Russian
aggression. I look forward to working with Chairman Royce and other colleagues as we move ahead with this effort.
And finally, let me just add that our European allies need to confront these same questions a strategy of political will.
In my view wealthy countries such as Germany, France and others have a lot more skin in the game economically
and strategically. They should be doing more to assist Ukraine on the economic front, and they seem even less
willing than we are to provide needed military assistance.
They should double down, dig deep and ensure Ukraine does not endure a financial meltdown. This would be a win-
win, keeping Ukraine solvent and preventing an even greater catastrophe on the E.U.'s borders. The people of
Ukraine are watching. The government in Kiev is watching, and the whole world is watching. We cannot sit idly by
and allow Putin to continue his aggression.
So again, Ambassador Nuland, thank you for appearing here today, and I look forward to your testimony.ROYCE: So,
this morning we are very pleased to be joined by Ambassador Victoria Nuland, and before assuming her position as
assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs with the Department of State, Ambassador
Nuland served as the Department of State's spokesperson. She also served as the United States permanent
representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 2005 to 2008, and she focused heavily on NATO Russia
issues during that period of time.
And without objection, the witness' full prepared statement is going to be made part of the record. Members will have
five calendar days to submit any statements to the committee, any questions and extraneous materials for the record
which we'll ask the ambassador to respond to in writing.
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So, we would ask, ambassador, if you would please summarize your remarks, and then we'll go to questions.
NU LAND: Thank you very much, Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, members of this committee, for having
me back today to speak about the situation in Ukraine and for your personal investment in that country's future.
Let me also take this opportunity to say that we share this committee's sadness and outrage over the murder of
freedom fighter, and Russian patriot, and friend to many of us, Boris Nemtsov. The outpouring of concern from
Congress again demonstrates bi -- bipartisan U.S. respect for those in Russia and across the region who are working
for reform, clean government, justice, and dignity.
Today, Ukraine is central to our 25-year effort for a Europe whole, free, and at peace. With your permission, I'd like to
focus on three areas in particular today. First, on the hard work that Ukraine is doing with U.S. and international
support to build a more democratic, independent and European country. Second, I'll address both the opportunity that
Russia has to implement the February and September Minsk agreements, as well as the further costs that the United
States and our European allies will have to impose if Minsk is further violated.
And finally, I'll touch very briefly on three other new threats to European security that we are working on, energy
vulnerability, corruption, and propaganda, as noted by the chairman, that the Ukraine conflict also brings into high
release -- relief and all we're doing on them. First, a quick reminder of why we are here. 14 months ago, the Kiev
Maidan and towns across Ukraine erupted in peaceful protest by ordinary Ukrainians who were fed up with a sleazy,
corrupt regime that was bent on cheating its people of their democratic choice for a more European future.
They braved frigid temperatures, brutal beatings, and sniper bullets. Ultimately, the leader of that rotten regime fled
the country, and then he was voted out by the parliament, including most members of his own party. And then
Ukraine began to forge a new nation on its own terms. I want to take a small opportunity here to highlight the very
hard work that your counterparts in the - - in the new Ukrainian Rada have undertaken just since they were seated in
November. The Rada has been a beehive of activity, passing laws to tackle corruption in the public and private
sector, to reduce government inefficiency to strengthen the banking system, to clean up the energy sector, to
establish a new police service, to improve the climate for business and attract new investment.
It's also been moving forward on political decentralization to give the Ukrainian regions more authority in advance of
local elections. These reforms have been politically difficult, but they will also stabilize the economy, and we're seeing
the (inaudible) even today. And it will also support the swift disbursement of IMF and other international donor
support. I can ask you only to imagine what it would have been like if you'd been asked to pass that much legislation
that quickly and that painfully.
As Ukraine has stood up, the United States and our European allies and partners have stood with her. This past year,
the United States provided almost $355 million in foreign assistance to strengthen energy assistance, to aid Ukraine's
poorest citizens as gas costs rise, to help fight corruption, to help strengthen the Ukrainian border guard and its
military, $118 million in security support alone, and to support political reforms, elections, and clean government.
And there's more on the way. As Secretary Kerry testified last week, the president's budget includes an F.Y. 16
request of $513.5 million, almost six times more than our F.Y. 14 request, to build on these efforts. today, we're
working with Europe, the Ukrainians, and the IMF to strengthen the country's economy and support the government's
reform plan, particularly in implementing this package of legislation, including a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee
and up to another $1 billion later in 2015 if you and we agree that the conditions warrant and if Ukraine is able to
meet its reform targets.
This brings me to my second point. Even as Ukraine has begun building a peaceful, democratic, independent nation
across 94 percent of its territory, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine have suffered a reign of terror. today, Crimea remains
under illegal annexation and human rights abuses are the norm, not the exception, for Crimea's most vulnerable
populations, especially Crimean tartars, Ukrainians who won't give up their passports, and for LGBT citizens. In
Eastern Ukraine, Russia and its separatists puppets have unleashed unspeakable violence and pillage. Hundreds
and hundreds of Russian heavy weapons and troops have poured across the border, a commercial airliner was shot
down this summer, Donetsk airport was obliterated, Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko languishes in a Moscow jail on
day 82 of her hunger strike, and the city of Debaltseve, outside the Minsk cease-fire lines, fell to separatists six days
after the February 12th Minsk agreement was signed.
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Overall, as you have said, Mr. Chairman, 1. 7 million Ukrainians have been forced out of their homes and over 6,000
have lost their lives. The United States and the E.U. have worked in lock step to impose successive rounds of tough
sanctions, including deep sectoral sanctions on Russia and its separatist cronies as the cost for these actions. And
those sanctions are biting deeply on the -- on the Russian economy.
Our unity with Europe with regard to Ukraine remains the corner stone of our policy towards this crisis and a
fundamental element of our strength in standing up to Russian aggression. It's in that spirit that we -- solute the
efforts of German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande in Minsk on February 12th to try again with
President Poroshenko and President Putin to end the fighting in Ukraine's east.
The Minsk package of agreements September 5th, September 19th, and February -- the February 12th implementing
agreement offer the promise of peace, disarmament, political normalization and decentralization in Eastern Ukraine,
and a long with -- the return of Ukraine's state sovereignty and border control in the East.NULAND: For some in
Ukraine, conditions have already begun to improve since February 12th. In parts of the East, the guns have been
silenced and the OSCE has begun to gain access. But the picture is very, very mixed, and just today we have OSCE
reports of new heavy shelling from separatist position around the Donetsk airport and in the towns outside Mariupol,
particularly the strategically important town of Shyrokyne, and we have reports of a new 17th Russian convoy going
over the border from Russia into Ukraine with no opportunity for Ukraine or the ICRC to inspect that convoy, and we
all know what they have contained in the past.
So in the coming days, here is what we and our international partners have to see. We need to see a complete
cease-fire all along the cease-fire line in eastern Ukraine, we have to full, unfettered access to the whole zone for
OSCE monitors, and we have to a full pullback of all heavy weapons as stipulated in the agreement.
If fully implemented, these steps will bring peace to eastern Ukraine for the first time in almost a year, and they will
also allow for the implementation of the follow-on steps of Minsk, namely access for Ukraine to its citizens in the east
so they can begin a political dialogue, they can begin real work with their own population and eventually so we can
see that international border close.
As we long said, the United States will start to roll back sanctions on Russia when the Minsk agreements are fully
implemented, and so will our European partners. But as the president has also said, we will judge Russia by its
actions, not its words.
And we have already begun, this week, intensive consultations with our European partners on further sanctions
pressure, should Russia continue fueling the fire in the east of Ukraine or in other parts of the country, fail to
implement Minsk or grab more land, as we saw in Debaltseve.
Finally, just a quick note to remind the traditional military force is only one of the threats to European security that we
are working on. There are others, including energy dependence from a single unreliable source, the cancer of
corruption and the Kremlin's pervasive propaganda campaign, where is truth is no obstacle.
We're working across all those fronts to harden European resilience to these new threats.
Just briefly -- and there's more in my longer statement -- on energy security, project by project, we're working with the
E.U. in key countries to change Europe's energy landscape and to make it more secure, resilient and diverse.
On corruption, we're working with governments, civil society and the business community, particularly across Central
and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, to close the space for dirty money to go in and undercut democratic institutions
and pervert the business environment.
And Russia's propaganda, we're working with the Broadcast Board of Governors to ramp up efforts to counter lies
with truth.
We're also requesting more than $20 million in foreign assistance and public diplomacy funds for State Department
programs to counter Russian propaganda.
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Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking Member, members of this committee, America's investment in Ukraine is about far more
than protecting the choice of a single democratic European country; it's about protecting the rules-based system
across Europe and globally.
And it's about saying no to borders changed by force, to big countries intimidating small and to demanding spheres of
influence.
It's also, as you said, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Ranking Member, about protecting the promise of a Europe whole, free
and at peace.
I thank each of you, and I thank this committee as a whole for its bipartisan support and commitment to these
policies.
Thank you very much. I look forward to your questions.
ROYCE: Thank you, Ambassador Nuland.
As I mentioned in my opening statement, I do have concerns that are intelligence sharing is really in name only when
it comes to Ukraine.
And I know we can't get into great details here on this, but do you believe our intelligence sharing with Ukrainians is
robust enough for them to protect themselves?
Because we get the information from them about the struggle they're having. We know the Canadians are trying to
assist them in this. But, you know, at the end of the day, they've got to prevail against these Russian-backed rebel
forces and Russian forces that are on their territory now with -- with tanks.
NU LAND: Mr. Chairman, in this unclassified setting, let me simply say that our intelligence cooperation with Ukraine,
as well as with the Ukrainian intelligence services and armed forces, has been improving over time.
There are certain constraints, as you know, but we are continuing to look at what more we can do in a manner that
protects our own assets and that we're sure will be used properly.
ROYCE: Let me ask you another question, because I notice, from the head of NATO to the director of national
intelligence to the new defense secretary, it seems like nearly every U.S. official supports providing defensive
weapons to the Ukrainians.
And indeed, a letter from many members of Congress, including myself, Mr. Engel, the speaker, will soon go to the
president on this -- on this subject.
Where are we on this decision? Because President Poroshenko continues his appeal to us, obviously.
NULAND: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
As I mentioned in my testimony, as you know, we have provided $118 million in security and border assistance to
date.
This is all in the defensive, nonlethal area, but some of it is on the high end of defensive, including the very important
counter- fire radar batteries that we were able to provide just over the last few months, which Ukrainians report to us
have saved lives, particularly in the most intensive conflicts around Donetsk airports and Debaltseve.
With regard to the question of providing more lethal assistance, as my secretary, Secretary Kerry, testified last week,
that question is still under discussion, and the president has not made a decision.
ROYCE: But I want to get back to this issue of -- of Russian tanks that are firing on cities and on Ukrainian positions.
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If they cannot get precision anti-tank missiles or -- or weapons to use on the ground, there isn't the capability to stop
those tanks.
And we're -- we're not talking about, you know, transferring offensive weaponry, like tanks, or selling those to
Ukraine; what we're talking about are weapons that are purely defensive but are absolutely necessary if there's going
to be any credible deterrence to what the Russians are doing town by town now in the east.
The request here, you know, isn't for more blankets or meals, you know, or -- I saw the inventory of what we've sent
them. What they're requesting is quite precise: defensive weaponry that will allow them to hold their positions.
NULAND: Well, Mr. Chairman, as I said, this issues are still under review, including the types of equipment that you
note, which would respond directly to some of the Russian supply.
Just to state for the record here, some of what we are seeing, we have, since December, seen Russia transfer
hundreds of pieces of military equipment to pro-Russian separatists.
ROYCE: Exactly.
NULAND: Tanks, armored vehicles, rocket systems, heavy artillery.
ROYCE: And part of the point that I'm making is that this is not all being transferred to Russian separatists. There is
no way that separatists are in those tanks. They're not the tankers. They're not driving those tanks. Those are
Russian soldiers driving those tanks.
And I would just make the point to not decide is to decide.NULAND: Understood.
ROYCE: And -- and that's -- that's the point we'd make.
Lastly, per your observation on the broadcasting, I just wanted to make the point in terms of the dysfunction.
Yesterday it was reported that the new CEO of the agency, Andy Lack, in terms of the BBG, is resigning his post after
six weeks on the job.
Now we know, we know the problems that staff and others have had over at the BBG. We have heard from our
former secretary of state, Secretary Clinton, that the agency is defunct. It is defunct. Myself and Eliot Engel and other
members of this committee put a lot of time and effort working with those who have a very real interest in reforming
this, getting a consensus.
That legislation is necessary to get this agency back up to the business that it did very well, you know, in the 1980s in
terms of disseminating information into Russia and into Eastern Europe. That legislation needs to have support from
the administration, and I would just leave you with that request, Ambassador.
NULAND: May I just quickly ...
ROYCE: Yes.
NULAND: ... respond? As you know, Secretary Kerry said we do join you in supporting reform of the BBG. We are
working with you on that. We have some differences, slight, with your proposed legislation, but I do want to give a
shout-out to BBG and its affiliates for the work that they have been doing over the last year to counter Russian
propaganda, and in particular to support broadcasting in Ukraine. They have diverted $22.6 million to Russian
language programming, 104 percent increase over Maidan (ph) spending.
They are now -- all of CRL and BOA have now launched a half-hour new Russian language program current time,
which has filled the gap in clean news. It is being pulled down by broadcasters all across the periphery of Russia and
parts of the Russian speaking populations in Ukraine are also receiving it. And they are now reaching about 6.6
million viewers.
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So they have been good partners to us and our budget request supports doing more together.
ROYCE: We follow that very closely and we also are in consultation with those in theater about the effectiveness.
And trust us when we say reforming the BBG is necessary at this time. We have to be able to take some decisive
actions to get this back up and running the way it worked effectively in the 1980s.
And I am going to go to Mr. Engel of New York, the ranking member of this committee, for his questions. Thank you.
ENGEL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Madam Secretary, let me also put my weight behind what our chairman has
said. I agree with every word he said.
I want to read you the first part of a report put out by Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty yesterday, and I would like
you to comment on it. U.S. commander says some 12,000 Russian soldiers in Eastern Ukraine. U.S. military
estimates 12,000 Russian soldiers are supporting pro-Moscow separatists in Eastern Ukraine. U.S. Army Europe
commander Ben Hodges said the Russian forces are made up of military advisers, weapons operators and combat
troops. Hodges also said some 29,000 Russian troops are in Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year.
Hodges said in Berlin on March 3rd that helping Ukraine with weapons would increase the stakes for Russian
President Vladimir Putin at home. He added that when mothers start seeing sons come home dead, when that price
goes up then that domestic support to Putin begins to shrink.
Hodges said that what Ukraine wants is intelligence, counter-fire capability and something that can stop a Russian
tank. The White House still hasn't decided whether to send arms to Ukraine, and Hodges reiterated Washington
wanted a diplomatic solution. Hodges also said U.S. plans to train three Ukrainian battalions have been put on hold to
see if the cease-fire deal forged last month in Minsk will be fully implemented.
And General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, also voiced support for arming Ukraine on
March 3rd. Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Dempsey said Washington should absolutely
consider providing Kiev with arms through NATO. Dempsey said Putin's ultimate goal is to fracture NATO, and I
would add to that to destabilize Ukraine.
And meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders have agreed that a strong reaction would be
necessary if the Minsk cease-fire agreement is violated.
You know, it's almost like when I was a little boy, and Gary Atkin (ph) used to tell the story too, that his mother would
tell him to do something and she would say, I'm going to count to three and you'd better have this done when it's
three. And she would go, one, two, and then two and a quarter, two and a half, two and three- quarters, and she
would give it more and more time.
That seems to me what we are doing. We are so, you know, waiting and hoping that things happen and Putin really,
in my opinion just looks at this as a sign of weakness. And I think the strongest thing that we can do now is to provide
Kiev with a defensive lethal weapon.
NU LAND: Well, thank you, Mr. Ranking Member. Obviously this hearing gives us an opportunity for all of you on both
sides of the aisle to register your views on this important subject. I will say, as I said in my testimony, that we are
watching very intensively whether or not the February 12th Minsk agreements are implemented. I cited some
concerns already today following on the vicious taking of the Bolsova.
And as I said, we have other tools in our arsenal, including deepening of the sectoral sanctions, and we are in
consultation with our allies now on how that would go if we see more violations.
ENGEL: In your written testimony, Ambassador, in your written statement you mentioned, and I'm quoting you, in the
coming days, quote, not weeks or months, we need to see full, unfettered access to the whole conflict zone, including
all separatist-held territory, for OSCE monitors.
Does this include territory along the border with Russia, and will we press for OSCE's ability to inspect the so-called
humanitarian convoys regularly entering Ukraine from Russia?
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NU LAND: We have been pressing for that, in particular at the two border posts that OSCE has been able to monitor
on the border. Unfortunately these convoys seem to find roads 10 kilometers north or 10 kilometers south of where
the OSCE monitors are and just wing right by. But yes, the Minsk implementation agreement of February 12th calls in
the first instance for monitoring and verification of cease- fire along the internal line, as well as the pullbacks of heavy
weapons.NULAND: What is required by the agreement is not simply to see tanks and artillery pieces on roads
moving back, but to be able to count them, to be able to see them in permanent storage, to be able to come back on
a regular basis to ensure that they haven't moved or been redeployed elsewhere, but also eventually to be able to
have access to the entire special status area, and that will certainly be necessary if the political pieces of Minsk are to
be implemented, new elections, et cetera, so that we can be sure th at it is free and fair and that ODIHR and other
OSCE elements can get in.
ENGEL: And let me just ask you one -- one final question.
I'm -- I'm really concerned that the Minsk implementation agreement does not provide Ukraine control over its own
border with Russia until the end of this year, following constitution reform in Ukraine that is acceptable to Russia.
Can you allay my fears and help me make sense of this?
NU LAND: Well, you are correct, Mr. Ranking Member, that the way the implementation agreement was sequenced
on February 12, restoring Ukrainian sovereignty on the eastern border is the last item, and it doesn't happen until the
end of 2015.
But as I said in my statement, we are also firm with our allies and partners that that means we will not be rolling back
sanctions on Russia until Minsk is fully implemented. So that is part of what we have.
Now, the Ukrainians, as you know, are in the process of working intensively now to reform the constitution. The
Rada's taken new steps to accelerate that work, including this bill that I mentioned, to provide greater powers to the
regions, even in advance -- to all the regions of -- of Ukraine, even in advance of constitutional reform.
So we are cautiously optimistic that with European and U.S. help, there will be constitutional reform in Ukraine in
2015 that'll meet the standards. And we'll see whether the separatists are willing to work with the government and
whether we actually have elections and -- and new eastern Ukrainian authorities who can work on decentralization
there.
ENGEL: Well, thank you. I think you hear my frustrations, the chairman's frustrations, but -- but -- but thank you
personally for your -- your hard work and your good work. Thank you.
(UNKNOWN): Thank you very much, Mr. Engel.
I will recognize myself.
Madam Ambassador, many members of -- of our committee will continue to -- to hammer the Obama administration
on -- on this damaging and unnecessary and senseless delay in -- in providing the -- the lethal aid that Ukraine so
desperately needs, so you will continue to hear this line of questioning, because despite this fragile cease- fire,
Ukraine continues to suffer casualties at the hands of separatists backed by Moscow, and the Ukraine government
fears that Putin's thugs are simply using this opportunity, this cease-fire, to -- to regroup their -- their forces in
preparation of yet another offensive.
Ukraine is in such tragic need of lethal aid from the U.S., and as you've heard, both the head of our nation's
intelligence community and the head of our Defense Department agree.
Yet just last week, Secretary Kerry testified before our -- our committee, as you've heard from the chairman and the
ranking member, that no decision on lethal aid has been made yet.
And -- and so we ask and continue to ask, what is the hold up? Our allies need our assistance now. Enough with --
with the excuses.
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So in what part of the interagency process is the decision on lethal aid for Ukraine currently stalled?
Does the department -- State Department believe that the United States should send lethal aid to -- to Ukraine? Yes
or no?
And -- and you said that the president has not made a decision yet, but you didn't say what -- what you believe and
what -- what the State Department believes, and I would like to hear that.
Also, the -- the Magnitsky Act and that list, the tragic murder a few days ago of the Russian opposition leader came
just days, as we know, as he was about to publish evidence of the Russian military in Ukraine.
Have his murderers been sanctioned as human-rights violators under the Magnitsky Act, and can you give us an
update on the progress or lack thereof of adding names on that Magnitsky Act so we can sanction those violators?
And also, Secretary Kerry has said that Russian -- the Russian foreign minister lied to his face about Russian
involvement in Ukraine. What is the extent of Russian involvement?
Are Russian soldiers in Ukraine -- are we prepared to -- to say that -- participating in -- in the conflict?
And on the 123 Agreement -- and I'll ask you to give me written responses to these, because there're a series of
questions -- I've been advocating for the administration to withdraw from the U.S.- Russia nuclear cooperation
agreement, the 123 Agreement, to prevent the potential future use of U.S. nuclear technology and assistance against
our own interest.
And given Putin's continued aggression, will the administration suspend the Russia 123 Agreement?
And lastly, I've been critical of how the administration plans on using funds to provide democracy and human rights in
Russia, especially after 2012 when Putin kicked out USAID from Russia.
Please update the committee on what the administration plans to do with that money that's been left over from the
Russia -- U.S.- Russia Investment Fund.
NULAND: That's a lot, Congresswoman. Let me go a through them quickly.
And thank you for letting me take the 123 question in writing, because I want to make sure our agencies ...
(UNKNOWN): Thank you.
NU LAND: ... get it right for you.
With regard to the process, the president did ask cabinet agencies for recommendations and advice. Those
recommendations and advice have gone forward to him.
I think you will forgive me if I take the same position my secretary took when he was here that we will provide that
advice confidentially, and I'll decline to speak to in -- in an open hearing.
With regard to the brutal murder of Boris Nemtsov, I think you know before this we had met our annual statutory
requirement to provide more names under the Magnitsky legislation, but that was, of course, before this event. So as
we look at our -- our list at the end of this year, we will see what we can learn about who the perpetrators are.
We have made absolutely clear, publicly and privately, to the Russian federation that the international community will
expect an investigation that meets international standards and that finds not only the shooter but the orderer of -- of
the murder.
(UNKNOWN): And not headed by Putin -- heading the investigation?
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I -- I know my time is -- is expiring, but if we were to add -- aggressively add more names to that -- to that list of
human rights violators, I think that we would see a change, and Russia knows that we're not serious about
implementing that legislation.
But I'd love to get the -- the answers to my questions in writing. Thank you, Madam -- Madam Ambassador.
And we will go to Brad Sherman of California.
SHERMAN: Ambassador, one thing I noticed about your opening statement was your lavish praise for the Ukrainian
parliament passing so much substantive legislation, and you compared it to Congress...
NULAND: I didn't compare it.
SHERMAN: I would just note for the record -- and maybe it wasn't a comparison, but came very close -- that
everyday, someone in the administration urges me to work hard to block legislation they don't like, and 99 percent of
the bills that the administration does not want on the president's desk are not there, due to the hard work of your
allies here in Congress.SHERMAN: So if you want lots of legislation passed, be sure that that is a consistent view of
the administration.
Many of my colleagues at the beginning talked about how we need a strong policy, and who -- who would come here
and advocate a weak policy? But we do need to put this Ukrainian situation in context. America has limited power,
and we seem to face unlimited challenges, Iran, ISIS, China and the South China Sea, Afghanistan, some difficulties
in Pakistan. So, we have to go with both strength and nuance. Although, frankly, I think in this case we need a little bit
more strength, a little bit less nuance.
There's talk about a -- capturing Mariupol and then going and building a land bridge to Crimea. My concern is they'll
want to build a land bridge to (inaudible), Moldova, and take all of Ukraine's coastal territory and access to the Black
Sea.
A lot of discussion of whether we should provide lethal weapons, albeit defensive lethal weapons, to Ukraine. And
such lethal aid would have an effect on the battlefield, but also a political effect. These aren't weapons they're getting
their hands on from Paraguay. These are weapons from the world's superpower.
We can give Ukraine money, we can give them weapons -- or we could give them weapons. If they had money, they
could buy weapons. If the Ukrainian government had sufficient money, is there anything that they -- in the way -
looking at the defensive weapons that are being discussed, that they could not buy from some source?
So the real question here is, can we have the battlefield effects -- suggested by my colleagues by providing money?
NULAND: First of all, congressman, I certainly didn't mean any invidious comparison. I was simply giving props to
the ...
SHERMAN: I -- I -- I understand. I understand.
NULAND: ... legislators who have taken some tough decisions, please.
SHERMAN: Yes.
NU LAND: With regard to your concern about a race all along the southern rim of Ukrainian territory, not only a land
bridge to Crimea but onward to Moldova, we worry about that, too. That is why we are paying such close attention
today to these villages between the cease- fire line...
SHERMAN: If -- if you could focus on the question I asked.
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NULAND: Exactly. With regard to what one can buy on the international market, a number of the things that the
Ukrainians have requested are not readily available unless the U.S. were to license onward export, and we have a
number of countries, including our allies...
SHERMAN: We're -- we're just talking anti-tank weapons. We're -- I mean -- I see those in the world War II movies.
NULAND: They're -- They have also been out shopping on the world market and have had a -- a lot of difficulty
getting countries to provide in the absence of the U.S. providing.
SHERMAN: And yet our enemies turn money into weapons with great -- great ease.
You mentioned the importance of -- if -- if we could have order in the committee.
You mentioned the regions and devolving power to the regions. That's controversial in Kiev, and yet if power is
devolved to the regions, that undercuts Russian propaganda. It creates more support for a Ukrainian state.
Is it true that under the present constitution, the governor of each state is appointed by Kiev? I know we have some
gentlemen here from Texas who are wondering whether President Obama will appoint their governor. I don't think
that would be a way to be popular in Texas.
Have the Ukrainians changed their system so each region could elect its own governor?
NULAND: Congressman, that is one of the issues that's going to be debated as they move through constitutional
reform. As you know, their system is very similar to the system in Russia and other post- Soviet states where the
executive is appointed and the parliament locally is elected.
But on this issue of decentralization, just to say that it is actually broadly popular across Ukraine, not just in the East,
you know, one of the ways that the oligarchs in power in Kiev manage things and that Moscow is able to help them
manage things was because everything was centralized. So, there is broad support for decentralizing budget
authority, tax authority, local policing, all these kinds of things, and I think you'll see that.
SHERMAN: And hopefully electing your own governor would be part of that, because our friends in Kiev need to help
themselves, not just ask for our help, and they could help themselves a lot by countering that Russian propaganda.
I yield back. ROYCE: We go now to Mr. Chris Smith of New Jersey, chairman of the Africa and Human Rights
Subcommittee.
SMITH: And welcome, Madam Ambassador.
Just a couple of points. First of all, I do believe delay is denial, and I think we have a de facto defensive weapons
arms embargo on Ukraine. And it's reminiscent, to me at least, and perhaps many others, to the Balkans War when
we -- in a totally misguided fashion ensured that Bosnia and the Croats -- the Croatians did not have the ability to
defend themselves against Milosevic's aggression, and now we see a reprise of that happening to our good friend
and ally, the Ukraine.
When you get the secretary of defense, Ash Carter, James Clapper, and as my -- one of my colleagues already
mentioned, and I've read his speech, and it's an excellent speech that was given by our top military commander,
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, he has made a number of important points, I think, in his speech, perhaps chief of
which is that while Ukraine's defensive capability might not necessarily turn the tide overnight or soon when it comes
to the military situation, it will make the diplomatic solution more probable.
And that's exactly what happened, as we all know, when the Croats broke the arms embargo. It wasn't NATO
bombing that initially turned it all, it was the Croatians were able to break the arms embargo and put Milosevic to
flight. And I think, you know, the Ukrainians are waiting for the kind of ability to defend themselves. You know, the
president's advisers are all saying, do it, Mr. President, and he has refrained from doing it. is baffling.
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When you get two world leaders between September and yesterday publicly admonishing President Obama in joint
sessions of Congress, it is time to wake up, I believe, respectfully, and take their views into much greater account.
You know, as my colleagues have said, and I believe it as well, delay is denial.
People are dying, over 6,000 are dead. Many of those are children and women. And, you know -- you know, and -
and I do think it may even be speaking to another issue, and that is the hollowness of our military increasingly. We're
not there yet, thank God, but we are on a glide slope to being weakened because of defense spending.
But as General Hodges pointed out,you know, Germany -- and we know Angela Merkel has admonished not to go
with the military defensive capability. Only 42 of Germany's 106 typhoon fighters are available because of
maintenance, 38 of its 89 tornado bombers -- General -- special forces had to pull out of the joint exercise because
there was no working helicopter. You know, a hallow force is an engraved invitation to Vladimir Putin to continue his
aggressive ways. So, I think the alliance itself and the United States needs to step up and help Ukrainians.SMITH: I
was in Europe two weeks ago for an OSCE winter meeting, and the Ukrainians -- and while they don't want to say
this publicly, just like Netanyahu was effusive in the opening speech, part of his speech with praise for Obama, they
don't want to say publicly they need us, so they have to tread lightly and walk on eggshells.
But they told me off the record how profoundly disappointed they are in President Obama, especially in light of people
around him saying, "Please, Mr. President. This is a time for American leadership."
So, you know, when will that decision be made? You know, the pipeline took six years, and then finally, we found out
where are the president really stood when he vetoed the bill for the Keystone Pipeline.
What -- what -- is it next week? Is it tomorrow?
You know, there's -- there's statements by Poroshenko today, admonishing the -- and it's -- it's right from our
embassy -- admonishing the European Union not to be premature -- his word -- in -- in -- in being optimistic about
where Minsk 2 is taking us.
And again, there are are also parallels -- and I -- I thank God for the 452 OSCE monitors who are on the ground
doing wonderful work. But it is reminiscent, again, of what happened in Croatia and Bosnia when the European
monitors were there.
And I remember meeting with them, their white suits on and score pads. How many are being killed? How many are
being raped? You know, it was horrible stuff.
And they were brave as can be, no weapons. Well, the OSCE monitors are in that same boat. They need defensive
weapons and need them now.
(OFF-MIKE) tomorrow, maybe? Are we going to find out from the president the latest denial?
NULAND: Thank you, Congressman.
I think, as you heard in our opening statement, we are watching the implementation of Minsk. We do have concerns
now about new firing on the ground in the last couple of days. I do think that the environment and whether this is
implemented will -- will affect the calculus, both on the sanctions side and on the security support side. SMITH: OK,
but hopefully soon. I mean -- I mean, the Ukrainians are suffering so much.
Nadia Savchenko, the pilot, member of the parliament, she's in her 82nd day of a hunger strike. What do we know
about her, and what are we doing to try and effectuate her release?
NULAND: We have grave concerns about her condition. We believe she was illegally abducted across the border and
that she is being illegally held, that she -- that if Russia wanted to give a humanitarian gesture, there would be
nothing more impactful that they could do quickly than to release her today.
We have concerns about her health. She was seen by a European doctor last week or two weeks ago. But as you
know, when you are taking in no calories, every day matters.
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So we, in every meeting we have at every level, notably including Secretary Kerry's meeting with Foreign Minister
Lavrov over the weekend, we raised her condition and asked that she be released immediately.
ROYCE: Thank you.
We go now to Mr. Gregory Meeks from New York, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Europe.
MEEKS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
And let me just say, for me, this is very complicated. It's not -- I don't think that there is one solution to it, whether it is
giving weapons, if that's going to be the be-all-and-end-all, that's going to resolve this problem or not. I'm not even
sure where I'm at on that.
Let -- let me just ask this question. I at least want to ask one.
I know we've been a lot on weapons, because I think by now, everybody's clear. I'm a multilateralist. I think that the
world is different. We can't just do things on our own.
I think it is leadership when you bring in countries together and you have them work and stick together. I think that is
leadership. It is difficult.
It's easy to do things by yourself. It is harder to do things in conjunction with others. And that's real leadership in my
estimation.
Now, where is -- and I'm not sure, even on the weapons, because I said I'm not sure where I'm -- I'm at, because you
don't like to see this. But have we had dialogue, and where is our E.U. partners on giving defensive weapons to
Ukraine?
And in my mind, you know, I'm still unclear what is defensive weapons, what are offensive weapons, whether or not
those weapons, you know, if you're in battle, everyone says that Ukraine cannot beat Russia, can Russia takes those
weapons away from the Ukrainians?
But where is our E.U. partners on the -- on the issue of -- of arming Ukraine?
NULAND: Thank you, Congressman, and thank you for your support of Europe as the new ranking member of
committee -- subcommittee.
I'm a multilateralist too. We, I would say, with regard to managing our response on Ukraine, spend almost as much
time working with NATO and E.U. partners as we do working with Ukrainians, because that unity is so important, and
it makes it impossible for the Kremlin to divide us. · There are -- all 28 allies have provided -- NATO allies have
provided some form of security assistance to Ukraine. That was one of the commitments we made to each other at
Wales. It can take take the form of training. It can take the form of support for the medical needs of the military, those
kinds of things.
The U.K. and Poland have just announced, as you probably saw in the press, that they will start training Ukrainians
along the lines of the notifications that we have sent up to you all.
Where the divide happens and where the debate is happening -- and there are allies and partners on both sides of
this debate, as there are folks in Washington -- is on the question of the lethality of the weapons.
So nonlethal defensive weapons, everyone has been supportive of what we have done, what this committee has
funded.
On the question of lethal, I think the debate is very similar with different allies on different sides. The president,
obviously, has discussed this with all of his partners, most notably with Chancellor Merkel when she was here. The
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vice president has a chance to talk to a lot of Europeans at Munich, as did Secretary Kerry, so that conversation
continues.
MEEKS: Let me ask this question.
A little bit different, because what my concern really is, even before we can deal with what's taking place militarily -
you know, a few folks that I have spoken with, they are really concerned with the dire straits of the economics, of the
economy of the Ukraine.
In fact, some have said to me that economy and corruption could cause the Ukrainian -- this -- the government to fold
even before we get further down the road, and -- and even that the money that we give, some question whether or
not it is going to where it's supposed to go, or is it getting into corrupt hands?
So my -- my -- my question is -- is, what is new in this government and its legislation that changes our calculation on
this front and gives encouragement? Because many -- I'm told politically -- you know, politics are local -- that many of
the individuals in Ukraine are more concerned about the economy and corruption right now. That's their first concern
before we move on from that.
So what -- what -- what -- where are we there?
NU LAND: Thank you, Congressman, for raising this point.
This is the other major line of vulnerability for Ukraine and where we have to shore her up. And again, we thank you
for your support and generosity on this committee for, first, last year's $1 billion loan guarantee, then again, our
request for the second $1 billion loan guarantee, which is the U.S. contribution to the multilateral effort that the IMF is
leading.
As you've seen in the last few weeks, as the Ukrainians have started the very hard legislative work and
implementation work to attack the problems in the economy, it has been extremely intense.
I gave a long list in my opening statement. You'll see a fuller list in my long statement of all the legislation that they've
passed to establish an anti-corruption bureau to clean up public procurement, to open the banking system to scrutiny,
to get oligarchs and others to start paying their taxes, to break up public and private energy monopolies, these kinds
of things. But that's going to require implementation.NU LAND: And most of the economic support funds we've asked
you all for Ukraine for '15 and again, for '16 go to the U.S. mentors and advisers, our ability to work with them on
implementing legislation, help them be public in these things.
But it is a long, long road, but they are seizing it by the horns. That's why we've structured our support to ask you for
the second billion dollar loan guarantee now, but not to come back to you for the third one until the fall when we see
how they implement, because our assistance, like everyone's assistance, is tied to performance.
The Ukrainian people expect no less. That's what they stood in the snow for and that's what we expect as well.
MEEKS: Thank you.
ROYCE: We go now to Mr. Dana Rohrabacher of California, chairman of the Europe European and Emerging
Threats Subcommittee.
ROHRABACHER: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Let me agree with Mr. Meeks that this is a very complicated issue, and perhaps a lot more complicated than the black
and white alternatives that we have been hearing about today. At one point, we've heard that the Ukraine desperately
needs economic help. And I would hope that our goal is to do what's right by Ukraine, and bring peace to Ukraine,
and not our goal being to basically defeat and humiliate Russia for actions that it has taken. Because if that's our
goal, the people of Ukraine will continue to suffer, and suffer, and suffer.
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Back to the -- Ukraine desperately needs economic help. This whole incident in history started when the government
of what you call the rotten regime that preceded the current government of Ukraine went to our European allies to ask
for help that it desperately needed for its economy. And the deal that was offered by our European allies was not
sufficient, and, in fact, was much less than what the Russians offered them instead.
And when that deal was taken by the rotten regime that you mentioned, all of a sudden that's when it became so
rotten that we no longer -- or the people could no longer put up with it. The -- the pivotal moment was when it
accepted the deal that was offered by Russia to help them in their desperate economic situation, which our European
allies were not willing to do. That ignited this situation. That's what turned policy type of situations and perhaps the
overturn of a rotten government through electoral process into instead the overturn of that rotten regime by violent
demonstrations and non-democratic means of overthrowing that regime. They could -- two years later, they could
have kicked that -- Yanukovych out with a free election. They didn't wait.
Let me ask you about -- OK. So, let us hope that what we're doing now is aimed at trying to end the conflict that
started in that more complicated way than black and white. The -- what people are advocating that we send weapons
-- and I -- to Ukraine, the defensive weapons, would any of these weapons be under -- do we see any of these
weapons becoming part of the arsenal of that part of the Ukrainian army that is financed --which, I believe, a third of
the Ukrainian army is now -- that is in conflict is financed by a oligarch, a private citizen who happens to be a multi
billionaire?
NULAND: First of all, congressman, thank you.
I will respectfully take issue with some of the facts that you presented here.
ROHRABACHER: Please, go -- go right ahead. I'm happy to -- that's fine.
NULAND: First of all, in the fall of 2013, the reason that folks went to the Maidan was not because money was taken
from Russia. It was because former President Yanukovych turned his back on the E.U. association agreement that he
had for six months been promising his people.
ROHRABACHER: Yeah, did you -- did you ...
NULAND: It got worse after...
ROHRABACHER: ... did you -- have you read that agreement?
NULAND: I have.
ROHRABACHER: And do you believe that it is -- that that agreement -- I have, as well -- do you believe that that
agreement was superior to what the Russians were offering?
NULAND: Let me speak to that.
So, in the same period, in the fall...
ROHRABACHER: Yeah.
NULAND: ... of 2013, when Yanukovych was talking to the E.U. about association...
ROHRABACHER: Right.
NULAND: ... he was also working with the IMF on an IMF package similar to what was offered later and what we
have now. I was working as the U.S. government's representative to him to try to get him to meet IMF conditions.
ROHRABACHER: OK.
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NULAND: I had more than 30 ...
ROHRABACHER: Listen, I've -- I've only got 25 seconds.
NULAND: ... 30 hours of meetings with him.
ROHRABACHER: Listen. I've only got 25 ...
NULAND: And he declined to meet conditions.
ROHRABACHER: Excuse me.
NULAND: Yeah.
ROHRABACHER: I only have 25 seconds ...
NULAND: Please.
ROHRABACHER: ... where they cut me off.
NULAND: OK.
ROHRABACHER: I want to make this point.
NULAND: Let me speak to the -- to the weapons issue.
ROHRABACHER: Hey, it's not your time. They're going to cut me off in -- in 15 seconds.
I hope that what we're doing is trying to bring peace to the Ukrainians, and not humiliate the Russians. And -- and
there's a lot people who -- and I understand -- I -- I was a big cold warrior as well. Our goal should be to try to have
peace in that part of the world, not to try to humiliate Russia again, and again, and again.
There's too many people being killed out there., and I would hope that we have - - that with decentralization, which
seems to be accepted by both sides, that that string of those -- -- that area of -- of Eastern Ukraine can remain part of
Ukraine, even though that now you have this separatist violence going on, that with promise of -- of decentralization
and respect for everybody's rights, and an end to the violence, that we can end this situation and that -- that should
be our goal, and I would hope that we don't get caught up in trying to re-establish a Cold War with Russia because
we have so many people who have grudges and should, by the way. I understand that.
Russians, during the Cold War, murdered how many Ukrainians? But our goal shouldn't be right now to make them
pay for that, what did they did during Stalin's era, but bring peace to that region. And I would hope that we can work
together on that.
I'm sorry, but they're going to cut me off right now.
ROYCE: OK, we're going to go to Mr. Gerry Connolly of Virginia.
NULAND: Mr. Chairman, can I just quickly?
ROYCE: Yes, ambassador.
NULAND: I think it's important for the record to say that only thing that the United States and our European partners
want from Russia with regard to Ukraine is to leave Ukrainian territory. Leave Ukrainian territory with their military,
with their advisers to allow the border to close, to allow sovereignty to be restored.
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And as we said, these sanctions will be eased when Minsk is fully implemented. There's no effort. My concern is that
-- it is the policies of the Kremlin that are hurting the Russian people now, hurting them economically, having their
sons come home in body bags, that's what I worry about.
I've spend 25 years of my life trying to integrate Russia into Europe and into the international system, and I worry
about the fate of Russia citizens as much as Ukraine's.
ROYCE: We're going to go to Mr. Gerald Connolly of Virginia -- Fairfax, Virginia.CONNOLLY: Thank you. Thank you
very much, Mr. Chairman.
I would just say, I -- I -- I've heard my friend from California. I got to say, the logic of the -- the Ukrainian government
made bad decisions, and therefore Russia had to respond is a pretty chilling message to others in Europe, including
the Baltics and former Soviet satellite states.
Sovereign nations get to make decisions, even decisions that may be unpopular in the Kremlin, and they -- and they
can do so without the fear of being invaded and their territory annexed illegally. And I would hope that all of us would
keep that in mind.
Madam Secretary, Minsk -- the Minsk agreement, does the Minsk agreement include, inter alia, the -- the
deoccupation and deannexation, illegal annexation, of the Crimea?
NULAND: Congressman, it does not. It only addresses Eastern Ukraine, so the problem in Crimea will continue.
CONNOLLY: Well -- but I got a problem then with you and our policy.
You say in your statement the United States will start rolling back sanctions on Russia only when the Minsk
agreements are fully implemented. Well, that means you've conceded Crimea. Is that U.S. policy?
NULAND: It is not, sir.
CONNOLLY: Why would you roll back -- why would you roll back...
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I swear, I'm not playing to the audience. This is a passion with me.
It started with Crimea. Why would you make a statement like that? You're saying as long as you clean it up in the
Eastern part of the Ukraine, we will roll back sanctions. That's what you say on page 3 of your testimony.
NULAND: I do, indeed. Let me explain, if I may.
CONNOLLY: Yes.
NULAND: Thank you for the opportunity to do so.
Over the course of 2014, we put in place four, five rounds of sanctions with the Europeans. The first two were a direct
response to Crimea, and then in December we -- we add sanctions on Crimea which effectively make it impossible
for any U.S. firms to invest there. Those sanctions will not be rolled back unless there is a return of Crimea to
Ukraine.
So, the -- the sanctions that we're talking about rolling back are other sanctions that were applied in response to
actions in Eastern Ukraine, but Crimea sanctions will stay in place. And the point here is to demonstrate that if you
bite off a piece of another person's country, it dries up in your mouth.
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CONNOLLY: Well, but -- but you've got kind of two categories of sanctions, Crimea sanctions and non-Crimea
sanctions.
NULAND: Yes, sir.
CONNOLLY: Well, if you're Vladimir Putin, how seriously do you take that?
NULAND: Well, you take it quite seriously because there is no U.S. or European investment going into Crimea now
and it's incredibly expensive for them to maintain this occupation that they have now started.
CONNOLLY: But -- Well, I would -- I would respectfully suggest, Madam Ambassador, that, frankly, we need to re
examine that policy, because it clearly isn't efficacious. It certainly isn't deterring behavior by Putin right now in the
eastern part of the Ukraine.
People are dying. You yourself in your opening statement documented illegal movement of military equipment across
the border with impunity. And -- and it seems to me that you've unwittingly sent a message to the Kremlin, wink, blink,
get out of the Eastern Ukraine and maybe everything can return to some sense of normalcy in the bilateral or
multilateral relationship.
That may not be your intended message, but when you're a KGB thug who happens to be the head of another state,
the aggressor in this case, that's the message he's hearing. The evidence on the ground would suggest that's the
case.
NULAND: First of all, if I may, I think it might be helpful if we sent our sanctions team up to show you the breakdown
between what we hold for Crimea and what we hold for Eastern Ukraine. I think that might be...
CONNOLLY: You mean the State Department sanctions team, is that what you said?
NULAND: State and Treasury, yeah.
CONNOLLY: OK.
NULAND: If that's helpful.
CONNOLLY: Well, that would be a novel thought, having the State Department brief a member of Congress.
NULAND: We will -- we will. ..
CONNOLLY: It would be welcome.
NULAND: We will make that happen as soon as they come back from Europe.
But I -- I want to make clear, as I also said in my statement, we have begun consultations already this week with our
European partners on deepening sanctions if we do not see Minsk implemented.
CONNOLLY: How many violations have there been from -- on Minsk to -- I count -- we have count that says there
have been over 300 violations of the current agreement. Would that be roughly in the ballpark from your point of
view?
NULAND: I don't have the OSCE figures in front of me, but they have logged more than 100 in terms of ...
CONNOLLY: Isn't part of the problem of Minsk that there -- that there isn't really much teeth? You know, with the best
of intentions, Merkel and Hollande are trying to negotiate with nothing backing it up.
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Wouldn't it be useful to have the United States and its NATO partners at least threatening to provide defensive
equipment and defensive weapons and training for the Ukrainian military, so that that's a piece of what's behind the
Minsk agreements?
NULAND: Well, as -- as you know, it was in the week leading up to Minsk that the conversation between us and our
European allies about this question went public, so it is very much in the -- in the ether here, but I think equally
importantly is to be in line with Europe on the additional sanctions that will be imposed if Minsk is not -- is further
violated or if there's -- further land grab, and that's what we're working on now.
CONNOLLY: Thank you. Mr. Chairman -- Mr. Chairman, my time is up. but I want to echo, I think, your opening
comments.
ROYCE: Mr. Connolly, yes.
CONNOLLY: It -- it -- one wonders when the United States government at the State Department decides a policy is
not working and rethinks it, because people are dying because of the lack of efficacy of this policy despite the best of
intentions. And I -- I hope we come to some point where we rethink our policy with respect to the Ukraine and Crimea.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
ROYCE: Thank you, Mr. Connolly. We go now to Mr. Matt Salmon of Arizona, chairman of the Subcommittee on
Asia.
SALMON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you so much for being here today, Ambassador.
To date, the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia have had really little impact on Putin's decision making.
The administration has stated that additional sanctions are being considered, but without the commitment of some of
our allies, some of our European allies, to enforce those sanctions with us or impose sanctions as a body, the
likelihood of those sanctions having much effect are not real great.
Are there other sanctions that the administration is considering, and do you believe that it will impact Putin's decision
making in the near term? You stated in your opening comments that what's really impacted them is -- is the price of
oil and that it's really brought their economy to their knees. So, I'm -- I'm wondering if maybe it's time also for us to
consider our policy in selling natural gas to our European allies.
The -- the process just hasn't moved very -- very quickly, and one of the reasons I know that Germany has been so
reticent to allow us to sell arms -- or provide arms to the Ukrainians is because of their -- their heavy reliance on -- on
natural gas from Russia. Same thing has been true on support of sanctions.
Isn't it time for us to just really pull out the stops and start selling LNG to our -- our allies in Europe?NULAND: Thank
you, Congressman. Well, as you know most U.S. LNG now goes to Asia because the price is higher. Under the
Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, if we have a deal between the 28 Europeans and the United States
then they would go to the top of the queue in terms of acquiring LNG. But you know, it's a fair point whether we could
or should do more.
With regard to sanctions, we have not yet changed his decision- making decisively but we are having a profound
effect on the Russian economy and we do think it is the trifecta of sanctions, low oil prices and 15-plus years of
economic mismanagement in Russia.
I can go through some of the statistics but I think you know them: foreign currency reserves down 130 billion just over
the last year. Credit at junk, inflation running 15 percent and 40 percent in food prices.
So, you know, he's -- he's -- the Kremlin policy is under stress here which is why it is important to keep these
sanctions in place and to consider deepening them.
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We are, as I said, working now with the Europeans on what more we would do sectorally if we do not see Minsk
implemented, if we do not have an end to the cease-fire violations, if we do not have a heavy weapons pullback, on
and on, but also even deeper sanctions if we have a further land grab.
And we are, as I said, watching these at-risk villages on the road to Mariupol et cetera now. And our sanctions team
is in Europe this week.
SALMON: The chairman mentioned in his opening statement that we made a pretty ironclad promise to Ukraine when
they agreed to get rid of their nuclear arms. And to date the U.S. and NATO response to the Russian aggression has
been pretty muted at best.
In fact, out of the 118 million of nonlethal assistance the U.S. pledged last year my understanding is only half of it or
about half of it was delivered by year end.
Don't you believe that there will be long-term consequences for the U.S. and NATO if we fail to live up to our
commitments to defend our allies?
And when are we going to make that decision as far as whether or not to provide at least defensive weapons to
Ukraine? I know that question has been asked and hopefully that's something you carry back to your boss because,
as far as we're concerned, nothing's going to get better unless we step up our commitment to honor the promises that
we made and my feeling is nobody's going to trust us in the region if we don't honor those commitments.
SALMON: I yield back.
ROYCE: I thank the gentleman for yielding back.
We now go to Brian Higgins of New York.
HIGGINS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Secretary, how many Russian soldiers are in Ukraine today?
NULAND: Congressman, I am not in a position to give you a definitive number in this unclassified setting. You've
seen Ben Hodges make a calculation from U.S. Army Europe. I would say it's in the thousands and thousands.
(CROSSTALK)
HIGGINS: NATO ...
NULAND: Let me -- I'm sorry; let me also just, while I have you here, say that what we can say in this unclassified
setting is that, since December, Russia's transferred hundreds of pieces of military equipment, including tanks,
armored vehicles, rocket systems, heavy artillery.
The Russian military has its own robust command structure in Eastern Ukraine ranging from general officers to junior
officers, as the president said not too long ago. They are funding this war; they are fueling it. They are commanding
and controlling it.
HIGGINS: In practical terms, does that constitute an invasion?
NULAND: We have made clear that Russia is responsible for fueling this war in Eastern Ukraine.
HIGGINS: Yes or no, constitutes an invasion?
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NULAND: We have used in the past, yes.
HIGGINS: If Ukraine was a member of NATO, under the collective defense posture of Article V, what would the
consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine be?
NULAND: Well, Article V would give all of the 28 allies a responsibility to defend Ukraine from aggression.
Just to make clear that, even in 2008 when Ukraine was discussing with NATO an improvement in its relationship, at
that stage we were only at the membership action plan, which is the preparatory phase.
HIGGINS: Isn't in reality Putin's concern about America encroachment and NATO encroachment on what was
formerly the Soviet Union?
NULAND: I can't speak to what's in President Putin's head. That's a place that I don't think I can go.
But what I can say is that there is no justification for being concerned about countries peacefully associating with a
defensive alliance. We've said for 25 years that NATO is not a threat to a Russia that does not threaten us.
HIGGINS: Russia's defense spending has tripled since 2007. Today it's involved in about a $300 billion program to
modernize its weapons. New types of missiles, bombers and submarines are being readied for deployment over the
next five years. Spending on defense and security this year will increase by 30 percent in Russia, representing one
third of its federal budget.
Putin has said very clearly that nobody should try to shove Russia around when it has one of the world's biggest
nuclear arsenals. Last count Russia had 8,000 nuclear weapons. He has threatened to use nuclear weapons on a
limited basis -- if that's possible -- to force opponents, specifically the United States and NATO, to withdraw from a
conflict in which Russia has a stake, such as in Georgia and Ukraine.
That is pretty ominous. That's a pretty ominous statement.
Your thoughts?
NULAND: Well, we obviously have grave concerns about the massive increases in Russian defense budgeting over
the recent years. It's particularly concerning, given what's happening to the Russian economy and to the Russian
people.
As I said before, inflation across the country now running 15 percent, 17 percent. Food prices rampantly increasing,
including 40 percent in some areas. Credit at zero. The inability of Russians now to travel because they can't get in to
buy new apartments because they can't get loans, et cetera. And at the same time, he's pouring money into the
military.
So this is -- this is a Kremlin that is prioritizing foreign adventures over the needs of its own people and that's
worrying.
HIGGINS: OK.
I yield back, thank you.
ROYCE: We go now to Mr. Randy Weber of Texas.WEBER: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Madam Ambassador, you mentioned earlier the body bags, the boys going back to Russia, that it had to be tough on
them.
Do you know what the body bag count is, the -- numbers of soldiers they're losing?
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NULAND: It's not possible, congressman, to have a final count because of what Russia has done to mask these
numbers. As you know, they have criminalized discussion of it inside Russia. They have threatened mothers and
wives and family members with pensions
WEBER: OK, so -- so you don't know.
NULAND: But it -- the Ukrainians assert that it's at least 400, 500 people.
WEBER: Right and if they check into it too deeply they'll lose benefits?
NULAND: Absolutely.
WEBER: So, what's the body count for Ukrainians?
NULAND: As I said in my statement, close to 6,000 Ukrainians have lost their lives in this conflict.
WEBER: So, 6,000.
NULAND: Or over 6,000, I believe.
WEBER: How long do you think we have before Ukraine becomes another Crimea that's annexed into Russia?
NULAND: Well, as I said, congressman, the entire thrust of our policy is to stop it where it is and roll it back if we
possibly can. That's why we've been imposing these increasingly tough sanctions, and you see the Russian economy
suffering as a result, providing increasing amounts of security assistance, albeit on the nonlethal side.
WEBER: But the sanctions haven't stopped the body bags from flowing both directions, have they?
NULAND: They have not, and this is what we continue to try to seek is a full implementation of the commitments that
Vladimir Putin himself just made less than two weeks ago in Minsk.
WEBER: Do you trust him?
NULAND: Trust is not a word I use in that connection, sir.
WEBER: OK. I think you're wise at least in that one regard.
You said it's difficult for Russia to sustain their occupation of Crimea in your comments earlier.
NULAND: I'm sorry, I didn't say it was difficult for them to sustain it. I said -- they were hemorrhaging money. It's
extremely expensive for them to sustain it.
WEBER: Well -- well maybe that's part of our problem in Congress. That -- that should be viewed as a difficulty.
So, they're hemorrhaging money, it's -- so you don't think that that makes it difficult for them to sustain their
occupation?
NULAND: Well, they still have, as you know, more than $300 billion in sovereign wealth. What they're doing now is
using the money of the Russian people, the hard-earned money that should go for their long-term protection, to prop
up this puppet annexation occupation.
WEBER: So, we've made it difficult for them to sustain their -- to -- you don't want to use the word "difficult." You
made them spend money to sustain their occupation?
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NULAND: We are declining to invest in this territory that is now occupied, yes.
WEBER: OK. So, they're -- they're spending a lot of money.
How do we make it that difficult and more so for them to be in the Ukraine?
NULAND: Well, as I said, as we continue to watch this implementation or non implementation of Minsk, we are
looking at the next range of sectoral sanctions either to deepen in the sectors where we already have sanctions on
the finance side, on the energy side, on the defense side, or to add sectors of the Russian economy that we...
WEBER: Would you agree that we can make them hemorrhage money in Ukraine if we're destroying their tanks as
they enter country?
NULAND: Well, they already have been hemorrhaging money on their -- weapons.
WEBER: No, but that's not -- that's not my question. If we're knocking out their tanks left and right, does that cost
them a lot of money?
NULAND: Certainly would be money down the rat hole, for sure. WEBER: And we'd rather them have body bags
going back to Russia than we would have body bags on this side of the border. Is that accurate?
NULAND: What we want is peace and an end to the body bags in any direction.
WEBER: Do you think that -- that Putin understands peace, or do you think he understands force?
NULAND: Again, I'm not going to get inside his head. It's not a place to be.
WEBER: OK. Well, fair enough.
If you're married, like I am, sometimes it's difficult to get into your spouse's head.
So, let's put you over in the president's head then, can I do that?
NULAND: You're -- you're welcome to try, sir.
(LAUGHTER)
WEBER: No, I think the comment is you're -- you're welcome to try.
Is the president disengaged, not worried about this?
NULAND: Absolutely not, the president has been the leader of this Ukraine policy. He's been enormously engaged.
I've been in meetings with him where he's passionate ...
WEBER: He's -- he's got 21 months left. How many more body bags have to take place in Ukraine before he -- before
we send them lethal? And I -- I'll just call them lethal weapons. I don't -- I hate the word defensive weapons. I mean, a
weapon is a weapon.
So, how long is it going to take? How many more body bags before we get in gear and make this decision?
NULAND: Well, we ...
WEBER: What do you think the president's thinking?
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NULAND: Again, these are his decisions to make. We will certainly convey to him your concern.
WEBER: OK. Then your decision from my vantage point is, what kind of pressure, what kind of information are you
giving to the president that says, "Mr. President, we need to act"?
NULAND: Congressman, as I said a little bit earlier on in this hearing, I'm going to take the same position that my
secretary took when he was here last week. The president has asked us for our advice. We have provided it to him,
but I'm going to keep that advice confidential for purposes of this hearing.
ROYCE: Mr. David Cicilline of Rhode Island.
CICILLINE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Ambassador Nuland, for your testimony.
I -- I want to begin by also recognizing the tragic murder of Russian freedom fighter Boris Nemtsov, who was brutally
murdered in the streets of Moscow last week and to, of course, urge our government to do anything it can to ensure
the perpetrators of this horrific crime are brought to justice. And I know many in this country are sending their
thoughts and prayers to his family, and to his friends, and his colleagues.
Unfortunately, these so-called tragic events are quite common for those who dare to criticize Mr. Putin and his
cronies, and I think it's important that we acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of this freedom fighter.
I thank you for your testimony and I want to just focus on the corruption efforts that are under way. As you well know,
Ukraine has historically had the distinction of being -- dubious distinction of being one of the most corrupt countries in
the world, and I wonder if you'd to how the new government in Kiev is addressing this problem? Are their reforms on
pace? Are they going far enough? What are we doing to support those efforts, and are we seeing the tough decisions
that need to be made and the kind of prosecutions, and firings, and the development on an independent judiciary to
help advance the anti- corruption efforts that was a source of so much of the -- what happened at the Maidan, and I
just wondered if you'd speak to some of those issues?
Corruption's been a country-killer for Ukraine. It's also been an opening for malign influence from the outside in
Ukraine's business. So, not only because Ukraine's own citizens demand it, but because the democratic health of the
country demands it. This has been a major source -- force -- focus of our collaboration within the Ukrainian
government.
As I said at the outset, they have just over the last three months passed an enormous amount of legislation, much of
it designed to tackle corruption, just to name a few things. A new anti- corruption strategy, a new public procurement
system, the creation of an anti-corruption bureau and national agency for prevention of corruption, strengthened anti
money laundering regulations, disclosure of public officials' domestic and overseas assets for the first time, partial
judicial reform, including the prosecutor general. More to come.
The U.S. is providing some $38 million in the assistance money that you've given us for that purpose. We have
advisers and trainers in many of these entities. We're also supporting civil society for oversight and reform. Other new
positive developments that go to the corruption and past dirty money practices, they're standing up a new patrol
police. The police, as you know, have historically been subject to bribery.NULAND: The new -- prosecutor general,
Viktor Shokin, has issued arrest warrants, new arrest warrants for some of the ex -- ex corrupt officials. There's a new
business ombudsman appointed. They have slashed the corrupt energy -- subsidy, they have cut payroll taxes in -- to
reduce incentives for unreported wages, eliminated eight regulatory agencies and consolidated them into one,
increased transparency of state-owned companies, made banking recapitalization more transparent.
A lot of this is legislation on the books. We now have to see it implemented. We have to see oligarchs and everybody
pay their taxes, be immune from special and sweetheart deals. We will watch like a hawk. The Ukrainian people will
watch like a hawk. I think the parties will be judged by this in local elections in October. But Ukraine's on the path.
They got to stick it now.
CICILLINE: Great. Thank you.
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And just turning to a new subject, could you sort of speak a little bit about what role the Ukrainian reliance on the
Russian energy is playing in this conflict and what the U.S. and our allies are doing to help alleviate Ukrainian
reliance on Russia?
And are our European allies able to separate themselves from their own energy needs as this -- as this sort of conflict
continues?
NULAND: Congressman, as you know, the -- energy has long been a noose that the Kremlin has had about -- around
the neck of subsequent generations of Ukrainian leaders. This government is bound and determined to break that.
Our first effort was to help them get gas from parts of Europe other than Russia.
So we worked with Hungary, Slovakia and Poland last year to start reversing gas flows into Ukraine. We've worked
with the European Union as they have brokered the gas deal that Ukraine cut, which was a much fairer deal for the
winter of 2014-15. We are now working with them, as I said, to open up, demonopolize the energy sector to help
them get more of their own energy out of the ground to work on energy efficiency.
If you've ever been in Kiev in the winter and had government windows open, you know how badly that is needed.
About third of the heat's going out the windows that shouldn't. So we're working on all of those things to break the
dependence but also to help Ukraine get to that place where it can be an energy supplier for Europe.
CICILLINE: Thank you.
I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
ROYCE: Thank you.
We go now to Mr. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
PERRY: Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
Ambassador, great to see you. Please don't take any of the comments personally, but as an American, quite honestly
I am disappointed and disgusted with the ineffectual and pathetic response from this administration regarding this
circumstance in Ukraine.
And I'm just wondering, to start out, does the administration agree -- because we've heard in other forums about
grievances, legitimate grievances -- does -- so does the administration agree with the justification from Putin
regarding the protection of ethnic Russians in any way, shape or form?
NULAND: There is nothing that justifies the kind of violence that we've seen Russia unleash in Eastern Ukraine ...
PERRY: I agree with you. But...
(CROSSTALK)
NULAND: ... or in Crimea.
PERRY: ... so -- but is there ...
NULAND: However...
PERRY: ... they have legitimate grievances?
Does Russians have legitimate grievances in this regard?
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NULAND: Russian-speaking citizens in Eastern Ukraine, like citizens in other parts of Ukraine, have long wanted
some of the things that Russia championed for them -- language, rights, decentralization. But all of those things were
on offer, first from the transitional government of Yatsenyuk in -- from March onward and since with President
Poroshenko and the new Rada.
So there is no reason for...
(CROSSTALK)
PERRY: OK. So I just want to make sure, because you know, history sometimes get lost on us as we give through
our -- just want to make sure that the administration is familiar and aware of the history of Stalin and Khrushchev in
the '20s and the '30s and the terror, the terror famine and the starvation of the Ukrainian people and displacement
and deportations and the -- and the re-establishment of Russians into the Ukraine. And so when the -- when Putin
says that he's going to protect these Russian-speaking citizens, with all due respect, they were moved into Ukraine
by killing the Ukrainians and it's important to know that history when we talk about legitimate grievances.
So I'm concerned -- I, too, agree that I -- that we should send defensive weapons to Ukraine. I'm in -- I'm in the
agreement camp on that.
So does the current posture of -- or the strategic patience that I hear about, does the White House's -- well, how does
that fit in?
How does their decision not to send defensive weapons at this point, how does that fit into strategic patience or is it
part of it?
NULAND: Nobody's been patient with what we're seeing in Eastern Ukraine.
Just to remind ...
(CROSSTALK)
PERRY: The Ukrainians have been patient because they have no choice.
NULAND: We have sent, as you know, $118 billion -- $118 million in...
PERRY: Defensive weapons, forget all that other stuff, defensive weapons. I don't know if you've -- I imagine you've
been to a war zone. I have.
NULAND: Yes.
PERRY: OK, blankets and all this, they don't stop bullets. They don't stop tanks. You must defend yourself. Harsh
words and we'll get back to you and we're deciding, that doesn't help.
So I'm talking about defensive weapons and strategic patience, where does one hinge on the other? Where -- how do
they fall together?
NULAND: Some of the things we have sent do fall into the category of defensive non-lethal weapons. I would note
again that the counterfire radar batteries that we have sent did save lives. They enabled the Ukrainian forces to target
where firing was coming from so that they could defend against it.
We've also, you know, provided support in that...
PERRY: OK, listen. I get -- with all due respect, that is the absolute minimum standard. It is not -- it is not going to be
effectual, which is why my opening statement about pathetic and ineffectual is valid, in my opinion.
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Let me ask you this, can you explain the concerns within the context, the concerns about providing defensive
weapons within the context that the president requested hundreds of millions of dollars from this Congress for training
and equipping for moderate fighters in Syria?
So in that context where we're going to send those folks weapons, weapons, not defensive weapons, but weapons
and training, that somehow Ukraine and the people that have been there that are more like us than the other, they
can't have those weapons?
How do we -- how do we reconcile that?
What's the calculation there?
NULAND: Well, as you know, the train and equip request for Syria goes to the need to defeat the ISIL threat, which is
an existential threat as well to the homeland. I don't work on Syria policy. So I'm going to refrain from...
PERRY: Do you find that to be a little incongruent?
We don't know who the Syrian fighters are. We don't know, look. Today they're fighting ISIS. Tomorrow they're
fighting Assad. The next day they're fighting us and we're going to train them and send them weapons, don't you find
that a little incongruent?
Have the Ukrainian people ever said that they were going to fight the United States, kill us, the Great Satan?
Have they ever said anything like that?
NULAND: Well, certainly we will register your strong position on this issue, Congressman. I would say that $118
million in security support is not nothing. I hear you, that you want to hear more.
PERRY: At the end of my time here, you know, we hear that, you know, sending defensive weapons will escalate the
problem. Not sending them, that won't escalate the problem. There won't be a problem because there will be no more
Ukraine.
Thank you very much. I yield back.
ROYCE: We go -- we go now to Lois Frankel.
We go now to Lois Frankel of Florida.
FRANKEL: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And I was on that trip with you and Mr. Engel when we went to Ukraine last year. Thank you for your testimony. I
want to say that there is -- I feel anxiety when I hear some of my colleagues, their unflattering remarks. And I will say
-- I'll tell you why.FRANKEL: When we were in -- I have three questions.
When we were in Ukraine, we heard -- I'm going to follow-up Mr. Cicilline's question, because he was with us. We
heard time and time again how the corruption of the Ukrainian government undermined the government, created an
environment, which I think you alluded to, allowed Russia's aggression to proceed.
But it was not just the laws. It was cultural. And so I'd like you to, if you could, expound, and number one is, first of all,
would you have even considered giving weapons to the previous government, Yanukovych, would you have
considered that?
And is the culture or the corruption that was in Ukraine, which you're waiting to see if the reforms take place, how
does that affect whether or not you're willing to turn arms over now? That's question number one.
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Number two, could you tell me the sanctions on Russia, what are the implications relative to the issues that are being
-- we're facing in Syria and Iran?
Or has -- have there been any implications? And number three -- if you can get to it -- could you tell us, in your
opinion, what are the implications on our allies and relative to the Budapest agreement if we do not resist Russia's
aggression?
NULAND: Well, the last one's a big one so let me just quickly go through the first ones.
Our security relationship with Ukraine has -- went through ups and downs after independence in '91 partly related to
the quality of governance at the top. In recent years under the Yanukovych regime, it was severely constrained not
only because of our concerns about the military but also our concerns about its human rights record, including with
regard to Yulia Tymoshenko. So we were doing very little.
With regard to our current cooperation, we are subject to Leahy standards and appropriate vetting of units. We -- one
of the major lines of effort that we have going in our advisory effort with the Ukrainian military is to root out corruption
and infiltration of that military. So that's something that we work on very hard.
We have, as Secretary Kerry has made clear when he was up here and every time he's before you, worked hard to
continue to be able to work with Russia on global interests where our interests align. So that takes you to the work we
do together in the P5+1 on Iran. That cooperation continues, not as a favor by Moscow to the United States but
because they, too, have no interest in a nuclear armed Iran.
Similarly, our work on Afghanistan, our work to try to come to terms with the violence in Syria, which has not been
completely successful, but those conversations continue. So we judge that they do it out of their own interest, not as
a favor to us.
With regard to the threat to allies, we didn't talk today but we have in the past about the intensive effort underway in
the NATO space to ensure that that Article V deterrent is absolutely visible, land, sea and air. We have young
Americans, as you know, in the three Baltic States and Poland and soon to be in Bulgaria and Romania showing
presence.
We're working on new headquarters elements in other ways to be able to reinforce them very quickly if we need to.
But obviously, if the violence sweeps across Ukraine, if Ukraine breaks apart, falls, et cetera, I personally don't think
that the effort to gobble countries will end there.
FRANKEL: And what -- you said before the president has -- is taking our considerations as to whether to further -- to
give further weapons to -- or give weapons to Ukraine.
What are the considerations?
NULAND: Without getting into it in too detailed a way in this -- in this setting, just to say, again, that we are giving a
significant amount of nonlethal security support, defensive weapons to the Ukrainians. The issue is whether to
increase the lethality. The issue is the kinds of systems.
On the one hand, it goes to the Ukrainian need and desire to defend against the incredibly lethal offensive things that
Russia has put in since January, February; on the other side it goes to whether this actually serves to harden or
whether it escalates and is considered provocative and makes it worse.
FRANKEL: Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
ROYCE: Thank you.
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Let's see. I'm going to yield the chair here to Mr. Tom Emmer of Minneapolis, of Minnesota.
Would you like to -- why don't you go ahead and chair this. I have a meeting that I'm late for.
EMMER: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Secretary, you've already answered quite a few questions, but I want to run through something so you can
clear this up for me.
The Minsk agreement, you referenced what Russia had agreed to implement.
Could you please quickly tell me what did they agree to implement and what have they implemented since the
agreement?
NULAND: Thanks, Congressman.
Well, first, just to remind that the February 12th agreement was an implementing agreement on prior commitments
made by both Russia and the separatists on September 5th and September 19th.
EMMER: Right.
NULAND: So the full package includes obligations both for the Ukrainian side and for Russia and the separatists.
First and foremost in the February 12th package is a full cease- fire on the fighting line, a full pullback of heavy
weapons to their ranges by both the Ukrainians and the Russians and the separatists, full access for OSCE monitors
to that zone to inspect and verify and to the rest of Ukraine.
And then on the Ukrainian side thereafter ...
EMMER: Why don't we just stop on the Ukrainian side?
NULAND: OK.
EMMER: Can you tell me if any of those three have actually been done in the last three weeks, four weeks?
NULAND: As I said at the outset, we've seen some progress in some parts of the fighting line but we are...
(CROSSTALK)
EMMER: Madam Secretary, I'm sorry, but we are limited on time. So I -- again, the fighting has continued. There has
been no cease- fire.
NULAND: It has.
EMMER: The heavy equipment has not been pulled back.
NULAND: Not completely.
EMMER: And nobody is getting access, as you said, in response to Representative Weber's questions, to figure out
what the death totals are, et cetera, that you just don't have access.
Funny how the fighting has continued after the most recent, the February 12th and you testified that the president is
engaged and that the, quote, "environment will affect the calculus on the sanctions in the release of' -- and I'm tired of
calling the defensive weapons. They're weapons, weapons that the Ukrainians need to protect themselves.
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Russia continues to violate agreement after agreement. Ukrainians continue to die.EMMER: What about the current,
quote, "environment" needs to get worse before the president and his advisers adjust their calculus? Because you
had said what the environment will determine whether we need to adjust the calculus.
What about the environment needs to get worse for the Ukrainian people and for the stability in the region for this
administration to adjust its calculus?
NULAND: Well, again, we are watching the implementation of this agreement. And I don't disagree with you that it is
very spotty, and we are more concerned today than we were yesterday by serious violations.
The president is very engaged. He talked, as you saw the White House release yesterday, to five of his major
European colleagues and to E.U. Council President Tusk. We are watching this day on day, and he is evaluating the
options.
EMMER: You know what, Madam Secretary? That's wonderful. And I'm sure the Ukrainians appreciate the fact that
somebody is watching what's happening from this side of the -- of the world.
But, one, when is it gonna get bad enough that the president and this administration are actually gonna follow through
on promises that have been made to the Ukrainian people?
NULAND: Well, again, with regard to the promises that have been made for strong economic support and for strong
security...
(CROSSTALK)
EMMER: No, I want to go back to the "disarm yourself to maintain stability in the region and we will be there."
NULAND: We will certainly convey your concern about this, Congressman.
EMMER: Thank you.
ROYCE: The chair will now recognize next Mr. Bill Keating of Massachusetts.
KEATING: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I just want to thank you for your work. I can only speak personally, but the briefings that I've had, including classified
briefings, with you and with the ambassador, Piet (ph), have been extraordinary. The communications are great. And
I want to thank you for that.
I also -- I'm gonna deviate from my question, because at least once in this hearing I think we have to put this
perspective in, because it's reality.
Now, so many of the questions have been unilateral. It's the U.S. It's Russia. It's the U.S.'s.
The reality is, that's not where our strength is. The center of gravity in all of this I think from a military perspective was
described by General Breedlove when he said our unity of effort with the Europeans is that strength, and it's what
Putin didn't bank on.
So I want to give you the opportunity to discuss how important the coalition is to the success of Ukraine. It's my
feeling that without that unity with the U.S. that we're not gonna be strong in our response, and Ukraine won't have
the opportunity to move forward itself.
So, could you comment on that, because it's lost somewhere in today's hearing?
NULAND: Well, thank you for that, Congressman.
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I think I said earlier in the hearing that we in the European Bureau spend almost as much time working with
Europeans on Ukraine as we do working with Ukrainians on Ukraine, because this unity has been so essential, and
because that unity is constantly being tested and probed by the Kremlin, because if they can split us, obviously, that's
their best line to imperil Ukraine.
So, first and foremost, on the economic side, where it's been a culmination of our strong trans-Atlantic support for the
'lfis (ph), our strong trans-Atlantic contributions, both U.S. and European, that have made the $17.5 billion package
that we have on offer for Ukraine possible now. Without that, it wouldn't have been.
In the four to five rounds of sanctions that we've done, if the U.S. had done those unilaterally, we would have had a
situation where European companies could have just come in and backfilled. If we had not matched what Europe was
willing to do, the opposite would have been true, or you could have seen efforts to drive a wedge between us.
We do believe that particularly in September and in December the Kremlin underestimated both our unity and our
ability to work together. It's not always as quick as we would like, because we have 29 countries to coordinate, 34 if
you include our other allies in NATO, but it does us really strong in defense of Ukraine.
KEATING: Yes, so when you look at Minsk and you look at the back end that we would not have preferred, you know,
in terms of Russia's border issues, and when we're having these discussions and these other questions about why
can't the U.S. just do this, simply do this, is it important that we do this in a unified manner with Europe?
And what would happen if we didn't? What would happen if we just veered off, the way some of these questions have
been pointed today, on our own, and just done this? What would our prospects for success be, diplomatically and
militarily?
NULAND: Well, again, it would have just provided an opportunity for the Kremlin to divide us from major allies like
Germany and France. I mean, one of the reasons that we shout out Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande is that
they're the ones that spent the 17 hours of hard diplomatic work with President Putin.
And he had to hear that not only do we disapprove of what's going on and have serious concerns, but that all of
Europe does, too. And without that, he might have felt he could get away with it.
KEATING: Yeah. I have my own feelings that I would like to see defensive weapons in place, myself. But I also can't
have this hearing and without commenting on the fact that we have to do this with partners. And it's a dynamic
decision. And if we move away from that, we weaken ourselves.
But with that, I yield back, Mr. Chair.
ROYCE: The gentleman yields back.
The chair now recognizes Representative Grace Meng from New York.
MENG: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Ranking Member.
And thank you, Ambassador, for being here today.
I have a question, the Journal has been reporting on a $5.7 billion deal this week between the German utility, RWE
AG, and an energy investment fund led by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman in which the fund purchases
RWE's oil and gas arm, DEA.
This deal gives Mr. Fridman the assets to launch a new oil company with assets throughout Europe. DEA produces
about 100,000 barrels of oil per day.
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This is disconcerting for two reasons. One, it's the sort of business that we're supposed to be deterring. And, two, it
provides for Russian control over significant European energy supplies.
Mr. Fridman is not currently subject to U.S. sanctions despite his close ties with the Kremlin. Do you know whether he
is or he might be a potential target for sanctions?
NULAND: Thank you for that. I'm gonna get back to you on some of the details, but just to -- just to make absolutely
clear that U.S. and European sanctions have targeted Russian public and government assets and entities. Mr.
Fridman runs one of the few remaining private companies in Russia, and, as such, has had his own strong views as a
private citizen about appropriate Russian-European relations.
But let me get back to you on how we've evaluated that particular deal. But it is not a Russian government deal. It
does not deepen the Russian government's ties into the European energy net or Europeans' dependence on the
Russian government.
MENG: OK. Thank you.
MENG: My second question, U.S. law currently allows for the vesting of frozen assets pursuant to IEPA, under
certain circumstances. Such circumstances include when the U.S. is directly engaged in conflict with another country
or when we've been attacked by another country.
In such cases, the president has the authority to make designations of the frozen assets.
Should we consider broadening the law to allow for vesting of frozen Ukrainian assets? Ukraine is in need of cash,
and this would be a good way to get cash into the country.
NULAND: OK. I'm gonna admit you've stumped the witness. I'm gonna take that one and look at it with our Treasury
colleagues.
MENG: Thank you.
And my last question, I'd like to get your impression on Russian influence in Europe. Russians own media properties
in Great Britain and Russia has close ties with political parties in Britain and France, namely the U.K. Independence
Party as well as the National Front in France.
We know of close German relationships as well. Some of the ties, such as the energy relationships are clear. Others
are more in the shadows. Can you shed some light on Russian influence in the European media and finance sectors
and give us a sense of who in the Western European political landscape are close with the Kremlin?
NULAND: Well, thank you for that question. This is something that we are watching extremely closely. I think the
Russian investments in government propaganda in Europe are clear for everybody to see, the massive investment
that their new platform, Sputnik, has made in Germany and France, et cetera.
Interestingly, there's been quite a public backlash in both Germany and France to the kind of propaganda Russia's
trying to sell, and the market share for that kind of effort has not been as big as they hoped, just as in the United
States the market share for Russia Today is relatively small, because people want truth, not Kremlin fabrication.
That said, the more nefarious dirty money sloshing around is what you highlight, this question of funding candidates
and political campaigns out of Kremlin coffers, setting up false NGOs to look like they are representatives of civil
society, but really they're representatives of a foreign government's view.
We're watching all of this very closely with our allies and working together to expose it and make sure that the publics
in those countries know where this money is coming from.
ROYCE: The gentlewoman yields back.
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The chair now recognizes Mr. Ted Poe, from Texas.
Thank you, Chairman.
Thank you, Ambassador, for being here.
Like a lot of folks, including you, I'm concerned about Russian aggression. The Russians go into George in 2008.
They take one-third of that country away from them. And the Russian tanks are still in that third. And they're not
gonna leave.
The West pontificated and said that that was bad. And, meanwhile, Putin is still there.
Then they go into -- Russia goes into Crimea, takes over Crimea. Now they're in Eastern Europe. I believe when they
successfully take over eastern Ukraine, they will keep moving. Maybe to the Salties.
Last year when you were here, May 8th, to be exact, I asked you the purpose of U.S. sanctions. And the question -
and I've got the transcript here if you want to see it, was "Is the purpose of our sanctions to stop the Russians or is
the purpose of our sanctions to make the Russians leave Crimea?"
And you answered that the purpose of our sanctions were to make the Russians leave Crimea. Is that still the
purpose of sanctions against Russia regarding Crimea? To make them leave?
NULAND: Yes, sir. We want Crimea restored to Ukraine. We have designated sanctions vis-a-vis Crimea which, as
you know, we deepened significantly in December, essentially denying U.S. companies the ability to invest in Crimea.
Our European partners have done that same.
We talked a little bit earlier in the hearing about the impact that that's had in Crimea, and we will continue to keep
those in place...
POE: So, are the Russians leaving Crimea?
NULAND: They -- it has not resulted in changing Russian policy. It has driven up the price for Crimea for the Russian
coffers.
POE: Well, that may be the sanctions, it may be also the world price in oil has dropped, which is the main reason for
the Russian economy.
Are the Russians building military installations in Crimea?
NULAND: Well, as you know, the Russians have had bases historically in Crimea.
POE: Are they building more?
NULAND: There is significant evidence to indicate that they are putting new improvements into those bases and new
equipment. We can get you a classified briefing, if you'd like.
POE: And the -- so the sanctions at least haven't stopped Russian building of military installations in Crimea. Are any
of those installations nuclear installations?
NULAND: I think we would like to speak to you about dual-use capability in a different setting, if I may.
POE: Anyway, they're building up their military presence in Crimea.
NULAND: Yes, sir.
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POE: That would seem to me like they're there to stay. What do you think?
NULAND: I think we have to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep faith with
Ukraine, so that it can continue to make -- to try to get its territory back.
POE: Well, when I talked to the president of Ukraine last year, asked him what we could do, he replied, paraphrasing,
that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, MREs, which was what we were
doing. Are we still talking about helping them fight for their own freedom, in the sense that we're giving them military
aid.
Are we still talking about that, or are we actually doing that?
NULAND: Sir, we have over the last 14 months provided $118 million in security assistance. I can give you a
rundown of what we've bought with that, but it includes things like counter-fire radar batteries, communications
equipment, counter jamming, a full suite of emergency medical, all those kinds of things, training. And we will
continue to look at what more we can do.
POE: That's all nonlethal aid. Are we sending them any guns, bullets?
NULAND: No, sir.
POE: Why not?
(CROSSTALK)
POE: That's what they want to defend themselves.
NULAND: As I said, we have continued to look at other requests from the Ukrainians, including on the lethal side, but
no decisions have been made. POE: So the Russians are now in eastern Ukraine, besides being in Crimea, which I
do not think they're gonna try to ever leave Crimea. Other nations, and I'm meeting some ambassadors today, are
very concerned that they're next in the Russian aggression.
What's our policy regarding Russian aggressions in the -- whether it's the Salties or whether it's other countries of the
former Soviet Union? What's the - - what is our policy to thwart that, if it is -- if we do have a policy?
NULAND: Well, Congressman, I didn't go through it at length in this testimony, I have in past testimonies, but we are,
with regard to NATO allies, starting with the decisions taken at the Wales summit in December -- in September, which
you now see implemented, we are providing concrete, visible to our NATO allies all along the Eastern edge.
On land, sea and air, we have some 300 young Americans in the Salties, in Poland. We will have new deployments in
Bulgaria and Romania. They are exercising, et cetera.
We are also working with those nations to establish headquarters elements that will allow NATO forces to move
quickly in a contingency. We are standing up a very high readiness NATO force.
All of this is designed...
POE: Are we helping non-NATO countries...
NULAND: We are as well. Just -- just to say, all of this is designed to make it absolutely clear to the Kremlin that we
will defend every inch of NATO territory to set a deterrent.
We are also providing security assistance to Georgia and to Moldova, the two countries most under threat, and
continuing the relationship with other countries in the region.
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POE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
ROYCE: The gentleman's time has expired.
We appreciate the ambassador's time this morning. As you can tell, the committee is gravely concerned by the
situation, and specifically the dismemberment of Ukraine. We can't wait forever.
We look forward to following up on these critical issues, and with that, the hearing is adjourned.
END
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