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Consortium News
April 19, 2018
In a leaked recording of a phone conversation between then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, the two Obama administration officials casually discuss hand-picking members of Ukraine's post-coup state, beforeÃâà...
Kyiv Post
April 19, 2018
“One of the reasons that Ukraine can succeed in future is because it has a wealth of human capital and highly educated people,” said John Herbst, the director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Defense industry. But another reason why Kharkiv Oblast isÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
April 19, 2018
Oleksandr Solontay is trying to accomplish the political equivalent of pushing Ukraine's winter snow uphill. In a country that still struggles to shake its addiction to oligarchs and other figureheads despite multiple attempts at revolution, the thirty-seven-year old is aiming to construct a political party from theÃâà...
Kyiv Post
April 17, 2018
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided Ukraine's Pension Fund with the Oracle server system worth $1 million that will allow improving the transactional work of the pension system Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine claimed this at the press conference. 'I officiallyÃâà...
Polygraph.info
April 17, 2018
“Foreign Minister Lavrov's suggestion that sanctions against Russia amount to genocide is absurd,” Steven Pifer, former U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine, told Polygraph.info via email. “Lavrov's comments are really nothing more than political bluster, not a serious charge,” said Walter Richmond, a genocideÃâà...
Ukraine open for business
April 17, 2018
U.S. Agency for International Development USAID has provided the Pension Fund of Ukraine with an Oracle server system worth $1 million, which will improve the operational work of the fund. The U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch announced the transfer and purchase of the Oracle system ofÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
April 6, 2018
Steven Pifer, a Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution, Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Author of The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times and co-author of The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms. Served as Special Assistant to the President and SeniorÃâà...
NPR
April 1, 2018
He served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006 and is currently the director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center. I started by asking him to catch us up on the diplomatic tit for tat. JOHN HERBST: The events of the past two weeks are pretty clear. A former intelligence agent of Russia whoÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
March 30, 2018
“I think it had very little success,” John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who directs the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, said of the lobbying campaign. “We weren't actually that successful,” said one person with direct knowledge of the Podesta Group's lobbying effort, who spokeÃâà...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
March 28, 2018
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has thanked the Ukrainian side for solidarity with democratic countries in the issue of expelling Russian diplomats as a response to Russian aggression in the world. This was stated at a meeting between the ambassador and Head of Ukraine's PresidentialÃâà...
Ukraine Business Journal
February 23, 2018
Marie Yovanovitch, US Ambassador to Ukraine, talks up US-Ukraine trade and investment, while Raphael Santana, President and CEO of GE Transportation, listens. (James Brooke)Ãâà...
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
February 22, 2018
The debate featured John E. Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan and the director of the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center, and John M. Evans, a former U.S. ambassador to Armenia and former U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg. Steven David, professor of international relationsÃâà...
Quartz
February 20, 2018
The report's credibility has been attacked by former US ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, who told the New York Times (paywall) the report was “a nasty piece of work” and that Skadden “should have been ashamed of it.” Other New York Times sources said that even Podesta and Mercury employeesÃâà...
TASS
February 19, 2018
For his part, Steven Pifer, former US Ambassador to Ukraine and, currently, a Brookings Institution expert, noted in an interview with the paper, that there were no real premises for lifting anti-Russian restrictions. He also expressed fear that the conflict in Donbass could eventually morph into a frozen one.
Kyiv Post
February 14, 2018
The United States government has donated 2,500 AN/PVS-14 night-vision monoculars worth $5.8 million as free military aid to Ukraine's Armed Forces, the Ukrainian General Staff reported on Feb. 14. Earlier in the day, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch handed over a certificate of transfer forÃâà...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
December 31, 1999
Chief of the National Police of Ukraine Serhiy Kniazev said this, while presenting the annual results of activities to combat human trafficking, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "Last year, we identified 346 cases of trafficking in human beings against 115 such cases in 2016. In addition, 367 victims ofÃâà...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
December 31, 1999
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said this at the 14th Annual Ukraine Investor Conference, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine posted on Twitter. "Ukraine runs the risk of insufficient financing over the next two years to meet its external debt obligations unless it completes the current IMF review,Ãâà...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
“It's not an internal strife,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Kurt Volker said in November. “It is one where on the eastern side you have 100 percent Russian command and control of what's happening there, and on the Ukrainian side obviously it's Ukraine, and nothing is decided. There are obviously peopleÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
President Donald Trump's silence in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin's unveiling of the Kremlin's new Satan 2 nuclear missile, and a video showing it targeting the U.S., is “scary,” said a former American ambassador to Moscow. Putin unveiled a new hypersonic intercontinental ballisticÃâà...
