Ukraine announces sanctions on businessman Dmytro Firtash for selling titanium products that allegedly end up being used by Russian military enterprises.

The council also announced sanctions against businessman Pavel Fuks. #1MDB

kfgo.com/2021/06/18/ukr…
Firtash - Mogilevich - Deripaska

THE (GEO-)POLITICAL ASPECTS OF AUSTRIAN-RUSSIAN BUSINESS RELATIONS

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Firtash who has ties to Russian crime boss Mogilevich, funded #Huntergahzi with a one million dollar check to Giuliani’s henchman Parnas.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Firtash siphoned off more than $190 million of state loans his bank received in the wake of the global financial crisis, part of which he ploughed into a deal to privatize a titanium manufacturing company, according to leaked documents.

occrp.org/en/the-fincen-…
A timeline of Giuliani’s dubious interactions with the Trump administration

2017: Pavel Fuks hires Giuliani to increase investment in the city of Kharkiv.

Fuks described Giuliani as “the lobbyist for Kharkiv and Ukraine.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
The connection to Fuks, highlights the complications caused by Giuliani’s work for international clients, among them autocrats and allegedly corrupt officials, as he represents the president.
motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Fuchs, a Kharkiv native, has reportedly been under investigation in Ukraine for alleged corruption surrounding a deal to buy $160 million in frozen assets of the country’s former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in February 2014.
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The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months (Apr/July 2017) of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Please join me a virtual tour of the Dali Museum, which is located in the heart of the of the quaint village of Montmartre.

Within the museum one finds one the largest collection of Salvador Dalí artworks in France & can appreciate his eclectic variety of mediums & styles.
“Along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Dali is most renowned as a Surrealist artist who created many of the best known paintings of the movement.”

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