"Mr. Manafort and his colleagues Phil Griffin and Catherine Barnes frequently pressed American diplomats in Ukraine to treat Mr. Yanukovych and his supporters equally"
nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/…
nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/…
"Among them are: the debit cards issued to Manafort's colleagues Phil Griffin and Leonid Avrashov"
THE UKRAINE PAYMENTS THAT LINK MANAFORT TO PUTIN
newsweek.com/ukraine-paymen…
THE UKRAINE PAYMENTS THAT LINK MANAFORT TO PUTIN
newsweek.com/ukraine-paymen…
“I have every confidence that Paul and Rick will be vindicated by the judicial process currently ongoing in the U.S.,” said Philip Griffin, Manafort’s longtime representative in Ukraine." washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
"Avrashov, head of the St. Petersburg office of "Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly" also Manafort's partners Brian Cristianson & Robert Dole, and former adviser to the chairman of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Newt Gingrich, were involved" pravda.com.ua/articles/2007/…
"For a $560,000 fee, Bob Dole, the former Senate majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, helped a Russian billionaire accused by rivals of bribery obtain a visa to visit the U.S. in 2005, among other things." archive.is/qKNax 
"[Fusion GPS] was co-founded in 2011 by Glenn R. Simpson, a former investigative reporter and journalist for Roll Call and The Wall Street Journal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_GPS 
"Mercury LLC's filings with the Justice Department show its lobbyists—including Newt Gingrich ally Ed Kutler" thedailybeast.com/how-dc-lobbyis…
"Catherine Barnes, Project Manager for the 'Ukraine Election Integrity Project,' a Manafort sub-project to train Regions' poll watchers in the standards of the code of conduct adopted by the Party" washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
"Manafort's depiction of where the problems lie wasn't uncontested. "Our Ukraine's Anton Klymenko held a press conference March 10 alleging that Regions, not Our Ukraine, was involved in voter list manipulation in eastern Ukraine" 
"Tad Devine worked with Paul Manafort on Viktor Yanukovych’s 2010 presidential campaign, but backed away after the election, when Yanukovych began clamping down on dissent." politico.com/gallery/2014/0…
Timeline of Crimea seizure updated in court hearing of Yanukovych treason case
unian.info/politics/23225…
unian.info/politics/23225…
Jack Burkman, who helped run the Seth Rich Conspiracy theory meant to cast the DNC as a criminal operation, organized a fundraiser for Rick Gates' legal defense. washingtonian.com/2017/12/20/jac…
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed that he began to plan the annexation of Crimea in a secret meeting with security services the day Ukraine's pro-Moscow president fled Kiev"
news.vice.com/article/putin-…
news.vice.com/article/putin-…
Russia: Yanukovich asked Putin to use force to save Ukraine
reuters.com/article/us-ukr…
reuters.com/article/us-ukr…
Yanukovych: 'I Was Wrong' To Ask Russian Troops Into Crimea
npr.org/sections/thetw…
npr.org/sections/thetw…
The rest of the Manafort story:
"[Before being] murdered by a gunman in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine on March 23, Voronenkov had been testifying in a case against former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych" qz.com/940535/murdere…
"A former deputy of the Russian parliament, [he] had fled his country last year with his wife, Maria Maksakova, also an MP."
"At least six former Ukrainian government officials from Yanukovych’s time have died over the past two months in various circumstances that police have said were most likely suicides."
theguardian.com/world/2015/apr…
theguardian.com/world/2015/apr…
"Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in central Kyiv, July 20, 2016."
"He moved to Ukraine in 2014, citing pressure from his Russian editors over his reporting on opposition protests in Kyiv against Ukraine's then-president, Viktor Yanukovych." voanews.com/a/pro-western-…
"He moved to Ukraine in 2014, citing pressure from his Russian editors over his reporting on opposition protests in Kyiv against Ukraine's then-president, Viktor Yanukovych." voanews.com/a/pro-western-…
"You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly. As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine."
businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-…
businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-…
"Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered." 
