In line with latest filings, Kellyanne Conway has registered as a international agent of Ukraine pursuant to the Overseas Brokers Registration Act of 1938. Conway, who served as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump between 2017 and 2020, introduced not solely that she would foyer in assist of Ukraine, but additionally attempt to get US “lawmakers, specialists and opinion makers” to hitch the Yalta European technique. (Sure) convention in Kiev subsequent month.
Conway would additionally have interaction in different lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, for instance, organizing conferences with Ukrainian veterans and American lawmakers.
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YES is a corporation created by Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk in 2004 to advertise Ukrainian membership within the European Union. YES’ board contains former presidents of Poland (Aleksandr Kwasniewski) and Estonia (Kersti Kaljulaid) and former prime ministers of Denmark (Anders Rasmussen, additionally former NATO Secretary Basic), Sweden (Karl Bild) and Finland (Sanna Marin). .
Pinchuk is well-connected to the American elite, together with the Clinton household, to whose basis he donated $13.1 million between 2006 and 2014. YES’ annual conventions have additionally typically hosted former President Invoice Clinton, and Pinchuk even attended Clinton’s sixty fifth party in Los Angeles. Moreover, throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, Pinchuk communicated continuously with the State Division by former Clinton operative lobbyist Douglas Schoen.
Conway has not too long ago been accused of selling assaults on Trump’s Ukraine-skeptic vice-presidential decide, JD Vance. “I am not anti-Vance, I am pro-Rubio,” Conway claimed, denying the allegations.
