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Giuliani Has Curious Links to a Jewish Village in UKN

Human trafficking? Hmm...

Connex to Pro-RU For Life (Za Zhyttia) and the Opposition Bloc have the same roots - Putin👉🏼Rinat Akhmetov 👉🏼 Serhiy Liovochkin👉🏼 Firtash 👉🏼 Yuriy Boiko 👉🏼 Viktor Medvedchuk. 👉🏼Manafort 👉🏼Yanukovych
The questions hanging over Anatevka are whether it is what its sponsors claim -- a refuge for Jews driven from eastern Ukraine by the Russian-backed separatist war ...

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And what role, if any, it played as Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman sought to persuade Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump’s political opponents in the U.S.

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The mystery begins with the residents.

Only about 20 are Jews who fled the east, and they live in three small apartment blocks, according to two residents who asked not to be named for fear of retribution.

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Visitors are kept at arm’s length by guards in gray camouflage. The village’s founder, Rabbi Moshe Azman, declined repeated requests for comment.

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Azman has known Giuliani for about 15 years, according to people familiar with the situation.

The former New York mayor made his first trip to Kyiv in 2003 to give a speech hosted by Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Rabinovich.

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Azman is also close to Parnas and Fruman, who say they’ve raised $500,000 for the village through a U.S. nonprofit called American Friends of Anatevka.

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The group’s website says they will match every dollar donated up to $1 million. Plaques highlighting contributions by Fruman hang at Anatevka’s boys’ school.

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Besides a synagogue and rehabilitation center, the village has a large two-story home for members of the rabbi’s family. After repeated requests for a tour of Anatevka, Shmuel Azman, one of his sons, agreed to show the boys’ school.

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He said village residents include those who fled the war & some locals who pay rent & tuition.

He said a structure, still half built, will house 40 orphans brought daily to the schools.

Way station for Human trafficking? Hmmmm...🤔

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“Some are from the east and some are the children of dysfunctional families like drug addicts,” he said.

Note:
“Orphans” are the most vulnerable to abuse/trafficking.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😱

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Shmuel’s mother, Hannah Azman, who runs another of the schools, said she thought about 40 of the children across the three are displaced from the east but wasn’t sure.

“I don’t ask these questions,” she said.

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In Anatevka, several of the displaced Jews from the east complained about their circumstances, saying they are just scraping by, working in the village in construction and cleaning for low pay.

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One family in a tiny two-bedroom apartment with no refrigerator said they’d refused to pay for tuition and repairs because they barely have enough for basics and utilities, which Anatevka doesn’t cover.

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Residents said that when they asked other organizations for help, they were told that Anatevka provides them with everything so they didn’t qualify for more.

📌If the money purportedly raised doesn’t go to help the villagers, where does it really go?

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Giuliani was due to accept his title as honorary mayor in Anatevka in May. Parnas was already in Kyiv awaiting his arrival when Giuliani called off the trip amid a public outcry over his plans to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden,

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Instead Giuliani met Azman over cigars in Paris and accepted a large key to the village to mark his role as honorary mayor.

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While in Paris, Giuliani also met Ukraine’s Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytskiy as part of his efforts to set up investigations into the Bidens and unfounded allegations that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.

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On Nov. 2, 2018, Azman posted pictures of himself in NY with Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman & attorney Charles Guiccardo.

Guiccardo had paid Giuliani $500k as part of an investment into Fraud Guarantee, a company started by Parnas, according to Randy Zelin,

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Behind the Deal That Put Giuliani Together With a Dirt-Hunting Partner

Rudy Giuliani wanted $500,000 to help a venture started by a man who would go on to help him in Ukraine. A Republican donor from Long Island put up the money.
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This past summer, Giuliani attended a lunch in London for “British Friends of Anatevka.” He was photographed alongside Anthony Fisher, who had served as director of a foundation set up by Dmitry Firtash.

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The person who provides the link between Firtash & Bell is Anthony Fisher, senior consultant with Bell Pottinger & director of the Firtash Foundation. And the list of clients in Fisher’s portfolio includes members of Ukraine’s gov’t under Yanukovych.
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Accused oligarch donated £6m to Cambridge

Cambridge announced in 2010 that it had received a “generous benefaction” from the oligarch’s London-based charity, the Firtash Foundation, to establish a course in Ukrainian studies.
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I digressed, back to the story:

Around the same time, Parnas and Fruman met in Vienna with Firtash, who began digging up dirt on the Bidens in an effort to get Giuliani’s help to fight his extradition. Fisher didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Other well-known donors to Anatevka in Ukraine include Vadim Rabinovich, the oligarch who sponsored Giuliani’s trip in 2005 after he donated a memorial in Kyiv to victims of 9/11.

Interesting...

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🔑Rabinovich founded a pro-Russian political party called For Life.

🔑That party includes Viktor Medvedchuk, who named Russian President Vladimir Putin godfather to his daughter.

📌The circle is complete

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Opposition Platform & Bloc: Ukraine’s pro-Russian political forces and their chances

Putin👉🏼Rinat Akhmetov 👉🏼 Serhiy Liovochkin👉🏼 Dmytro Firtash 👉🏼 Yuriy Boiko 👉🏼 Viktor Medvedchuk. 👉🏼Manafort 👉🏼Yanukovych

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