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She spreads out dozens of family photographs. There's Victor Yushchenko holding one of his children. Kathy and Victor and their children at a birthday celebration. A picture of Moll and her sister in Ukraine. And one of the girls with their mother in Florida. There are also framed photographs of her sister with former President Ronald Reagan and another with her and former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara. www.ajc.com/metro/content/ metro/cherokee/1204/22ukraine.html - ================== (snip) After receiving a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, Chumachenko Yushchenko held a series of jobs in Washington. She worked as an adviser on Eastern European ethnic affairs in the Reagan White House and in the State Department's human rights office. When the Soviet Union began to fall apart in 1991, she co-founded U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, a non-profit organization that facilitates democratic development and free market reform in the European country. Chumachenko Yushchenko moved to Kiev just before Ukraine became independent. The daughter of immigrants always had her heart there, said Nadia McConnell, president of the Washington-based foundation. Chumachenko Yushchenko was active in an organization that helps Ukrainian orphans, and she has even tried to help the scraggly mutts she noticed in Kiev, McConnell said. (snip) In 1993, Chumachenko Yushchenko met Viktor Yushchenko, now 50. She was working for KPMG LLP - an international audit, tax and advisory firm - and she led a study tour that brought Ukrainian bankers to several U.S. cities, including Chicago. At the time, Viktor Yushchenko was head of the Central Bank, and he joined the trip. Unlike many Ukrainian bankers then, she said, he was well-versed in free-market economics, and he was eager to reform a system struggling to emerge from communism. (snip) http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120604C.shtmlNEWS AND VIEWS: The IRI delegation's observation of the presidential runoff in Ukraine ((Neocon/Neoliberal NED)) by Bohdan Watral On November 14 the citizens of Ukraine voted in the runoff election for president. In order to verify the validity of the election process, the International Republican Institute sent a 22-member observation mission to Ukraine, comprising nine volunteers and 13 employees. Established in 1984, the International Republican Institute is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy worldwide. It is not a part of the Republican Party of the United States Oh ha ha ha ; its programs are non-partisan and promote fundamental American principles such as individual liberty, the rule of law and the entrepreneurial spirit that fosters economic development. Thanks to the sponsorship of Sen. John McCain, chairman of IRI's board of directors, I was appointed as one of international election delegates who monitored the elections. The significance of the mission lies in the fact that democratic elections in Ukraine send a positive message to the entire world that Ukraine is committed to an orderly transition to democracy. (snip) Upon arriving in Ukraine, IRI delegates had an opportunity to meet other each other during the evening of November 10. We spent the next day in briefings, which began with an introduction and welcome from IRI Vice-President Grace Moe and IRI CIS Program Director Judy Van Rest, as well as a presentation on the election environment given by Tom Garrett, the IRI's resident program director for Ukraine. Briefings were also held with U.S. Ambassador Steven Pifer; the manager of Barents Group, Kathy Chumachenko; and representatives of the European Community. (snip) This mission reinforced my belief that Ukraine continues to struggle on the difficult path to democracy and economic freedom. Working with international observers, consultants and the providers of international assistance will help Ukraine in that struggle. I am confident that Ukraine is making positive strides to become a more viable and meaningful partner of our world community. Bohdan Watral is CEO and president of Selfreliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union. He is well-known for his work in promoting the re-introduction of credit unions in Ukraine.http://ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/519923.shtml ====== (not too sure about this one but interesting nonetheless!!) During a House Government Reform and Oversight Committee investigation it was reported that Bill and Hillary Clinton had been gathering FBI files on people. At that time, June 10th 1996, they had only gone through the files on people who's last names began with the letters A-G and found what was reported to be close to 1000 files, and 399 of them were on officials who served during the Bush and Reagan administrations, and are listed below. Many of our critics say that this is a lie and we are conspirators trying to tarnish the good name of Bill Clinton, but they have no evidence, just opinions. I present you with the, almost 400, names of the people who served under the Reagan and Bush administrations, who's FBI files were in the possession of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as reported by USA-Today and the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on June 10th of 1996. The investigation is still going on and this list of people tied with the Bush and Reagan administrations is now rumored to have over 700 names, but I will only share the solid factual evidence I can get my hands on. What were they used for?
I don't have any FBI files on the Clintons or their administration,
yet I'm supposed to be a conspirator.
(snip/a ton of names)
Chumachenko, Katherine Clare: Reagan, State Department special assistant
http://home.earthlink.net/~mrnetwork/filegate.html === (snip) In the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked in the human rights office of the U.S. State Department. She also worked for the first President Bush in the Treasury Department. But her dream was always to help Ukraine become independent. So after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 she moved to Kiev. Her business degree from the University of Chicago helped her land a job with KPMG, the U.S. international auditing company, and she prospered training the country's economists in Western practices. She met Viktor Yushchenko when he was part of a delegation of central bankers she brought to Chicago. "He understood free markets, had a firm faith in God and knew what the right path for the country should be," she told me. (snip) Now that Mr. Yushchenko is to become president, it's likely he'll be able to push through more than his wife's citizenship application. He helped implement some free-market reforms when he served as prime minister for 16 months between 1999 and 2001 before being ousted by hard-liners in Parliament. Now he has a popular mandate at his back as well as international support, which has only increased with the success of his "orange revolution." His wife has also proved invaluable by introducing him to contacts in the West. (snip) The challenge will be to move Ukraine towards a free-market economy. Mrs. Yushchenko makes clear that her husband makes all of his own political decisions, but she will no doubt be a valuable asset to him. "She is one of the brightest, most dedicated conservatives I have ever known," says Bruce Bartlett, a former official in the Treasury Department under the first President Bush. "Anyone who met Kathy quickly discovered that creating a free, successful Ukraine was her primary mission in life, to the exclusion of almost everything else." Now the challenge facing Ukraine is to make the leap towards becoming a democratic society truly governed by the rule of law. Mrs. Yushchenko is realistic about the obstacles facing her husband and his team. " people are making a lot of money off the current system," she told ABC News. "The last thing they want is for the system to change and for the economy to be a free market economy where the general population benefits rather than a small group of people at the top."
(snip)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110006076
This is becoming a little bit disturbing.
When you do a namebase on this woman you get a strange organization named Slava Stetsko that's related, in namebase, to among other things,
The American Freedom Coalition, a http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/132/36.0.html">conservative, evangelical political organization with ties to Sun Myung Moon (Also has a Coors connection)
The American Freedom Coalition, or AFC, is a political education and lobbying group which was founded in April 1987. Calling itself a "supra-coalition," the group claimed some 300,000 members in all 50 states by February 1988. (13,37)
The AFC represents an attempt to unite political conservatives and conservative religious groups and individuals behind a common campaign to preserve and promote what it describes as "traditional values." Among the values promoted by the AFC are a strong defense, opposition to abortion and pornography, anticommunism, religious freedom but with an emphasis on including "moral and religious standards" in government and other social institutions, the right to own property, and minimal governmental interference in the marketplace. (34,37) Its promotional literature says that the AFC acts as a "catalyst to unite a vast array of groups, activists, churches, and community organizations in cooperative and effective action. (3,37) According to AFC president Robert Grant, the AFC was formed because of the "inability of the `Christian Right' to achieve its agenda" because of its "fragmentation and its failure to build coalitions with its philosophical allies from other communities..."(13)
(snip)
The AFC is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization which produces educational materials on political issues; conducts workshops and seminars; promotes citizen participation in the political process; generates media coverage through well-placed speakers, articles, and Op-Ed pieces; and conducts lobbying campaigns on public policy. (3,11,37) It produces the American Freedom Journal, a monthly newspaper. Among recent contributors to the Journal have been former Reagan aide Patrick Buchanan, former Attorney General Ed Meese, the American Enterprise Institute's Ben Wattenberg, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick. (20
The AFC frames foreign policy issues in East-West terms. In Central America, for example, it called on its backers to support "the cause to stop the spread of Soviet conquest of Central America; not appease it as many in Congress would... . If we abandon the Freedom fighters to slaughter by the communists in Central America--communists from Cuba, North Korea, East Germany and elsewhere--nothing will stop the Soviet-backed conquest of this vital area at America's very doorstep."(1) As an outgrowth of this analysis, the AFC calls for support of "freedom fighters," in countries such as Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola, Poland, and Estonia. (18) In terms of U.S. foreign policy, the AFC believes the United States should--in the words of Steven Trevino--"take the lead for the Free World with regards to improving the human condition."(21)
(snip)
At the leadership levels in both the national office and state chapters, the American Freedom Coalition is closely tied to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Washington Post (March 30, 1988) has even described the AFC as a "Moonsponsored lobbying group."(34) The links between the two entities are so extensive that they will be discussed here in the Background section as well as in Private Connections.
(snip)
Among its most prominent activities recently have been its fundraising efforts on behalf of former National Security Council aide, Oliver North. One special project of the American Freedom Coalition is its "Emergency Project to Support Colonel North's Freedom Fight in Central America." The group put together a television special on North entitled "Fight for Freedom."(1) It also hoped to mobilize popular support for North's cause in order to create pressure on President Reagan to pardon North. (1,20) Between October 1987 and April 1988, the group had purchased air time in 180 television markets to air its pro-North video. During that time it also collected some 600,000 signatures supporting North. (23) In one of its petitions to President Reagan for a North pardon, the AFC argued that the former National Security Council aide was "under attack from soft-on-communism politicians in Congress. (36)
(snip)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/afc.php
Bush
Coors
Heritage Foundation
So I keep digging….
(fascinating read – only skimmed but plan to revisit later)
When journalists first saw the White House fundraising
letter dated April 14, 1982, written for Roger Pearson and signed
by Ronald Reagan, it was thought to be a fluke. Since Pearson, a
former leader of the World Anti-Communist League, was a
world-renowned racialist with a long history of associations with
neo-Nazi groups and individuals, a White House repudiation of the
letter was expected when the problem was discovered. After all,
it was the summer of 1984, and who would want Reagan connected in
any way with an advocate of racial extermination policies before
the November elections?
(snip)
After the Stetskos visited the White House, Yaroslav
Stetsko's wife Slava Stetsko, who lives in Munich, West Germany,
called on the ABN to support Reagan's re-election. She carried
that message to ABN chapters during 1984 as well. The
Reagan campaign cooperated with ABN, including scheduling an
appearance by Michael Sotirhos, head of Ethnic Voters for
Reagan-Bush Campaign 1984 as well as the Republican Heritage
Groups Council, at the 1984 ABN conference in New York City.
The goal of the ABN is to pressure the U.S. government
toward a "liberation" policy aimed against the USSR, with ABN
leaders as the liberators. Although ABN members say they only
need technical assistance from the West, they want the U.S.
military to put them in power in Eastern Europe and the USSR.
This is the formula they tried under German Nazi sponsorship.
Their manipulations of the American political system are toward
that end.
(snip)
According to Henry, "a representative assembly of the most
prominent Ukrainian leaders from all walks of life issued a
Proclamation of the Restoration of Ukrainia's Independence. .
..The proclamation received enthusiastic support of the Ukrainian
people." Henry referred to the "freedom fighters" of the
"Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), led by Stepan
Bandera." When questioned about his praise for a document which
included the line "Glory to the Heroic German Army and its
Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler," a spokesperson for Henry said he'd "not
been aware of the fine print. . . ."
On July 20, 1988, George Bush reaffirmed the ties between
the Republican Party and the ABN by making a campaign stop at
Fedorak's Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Michigan. Bush
delivered a hard-line foreign policy speech to those attending
the annual Captive Nations banquet sponsored jointly by the
Captive Nations Committee and the ABN. Sharing the dais with
Fedorak and Bush was Katherine Chumachenko, formerly the director
of the UCCA's Captive Nations Committee and currently the Deputy
Director for Public Liaison at the White House. Ignatius M.
Billinsky, President of UCCA, had already been named named
Honorary Chair of Ukrainians for Bush, and Bohdan Fedorak named
National vice-chair of Ukrainians for Bush.
(snip)
Bellant: Old Nazi Networks in US
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/political-science/fascism/bellant/bellant.pt3
(snip)
I subsequently made a number of trips into Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s to meet with the leaders of Rukh, the emerging democracy-resistance movement -- Mykhailo Horyn in Lviv and Vyacheslav Chornovil in Kiev. These meetings were arranged by a dynamic young Ukrainian-American lady in the Human Rights section of the State Department named Kathy Chumachenko.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/weekly_report.php?i=&report=1101432338
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NOTICE OF DETERMINATION BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS UNDER RULE 35, PARAGRAPH 4, PERMITTING ACCEPTANCE OF A GIFT OF EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL FROM A FOREIGN ORGANIZATION (Senate - March 20, 1990)
(Page: S2811)
Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, it is required by paragraph 4 of rule 35 that I place in the Congressional Record notices of Senate employees who participate in programs, the principal objective of which is educational, sponsored by a foreign government or a foreign educational or charitable organization involving travel to a foreign country paid for by that foreign government or organization.
The select committee has received a request for a determination under rule 35 for Kathy Chumachenko, a member of the Joint Economic Committee staff, to participate in a program in the Soviet Union, sponsored by USIA in conjunction with the Soviet Communist Youth League, from February 2-16, 1990.
The committee has determined that participation by Ms. Chumachenko in the program in the Soviet Union, at the expense of USIA in conjunction with the Soviet Communist Youth League, is in the interest of the Senate and the United States.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r101:S20MR0-1023:
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American officials are being very confident, they do not even try to conceal their support to agents of influence. The division of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine has spent more than $1.6 billion during ten years for the implementation of various democratic reforms in Ukraine. It is worth mentioning here that Ekaterina Chumachenko, Viktor Yuschenko's wife, used to chair that structure.
http://www.pravda.us/world/20/91/368/11034_policy.html
Even more obvious, Washington's tightest link to the Orange Revolution is exactly where Yushchenko's most vocal critics said it was - through his bright, charming, and well-connected American wife Katherine Chumachenko.
Born in Chicago to a family of Ukrainian émigrés, Kathy - as she was then known - got her M.B.A. from the fierce free marketers at the University of Chicago, became a well-known conservative activist, and worked in the Reagan White House, where she handled contacts with American groups of Eastern European origin. She also served in the State Department, at the Treasury, and on the staff of Congress's Joint Economic Committee.
In 1991, as the Soviet Union was breaking up, Kathy created the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, whose announced mission was to promote Ukrainian democracy and free market reform. Kathy was the foundation's president, and then moved to Kiev as its in-country representative. As you might expect by now, U.S. funding came from NED and the Agency for International Development.
Living in Ukraine, Kathy - now Katya - met and married Yushchenko, who was then head of the Central Bank and later Kuchma's Prime Minister. What a coup for Katya's American backers! Only Yushchenko and Kuchma fell out, and Washington had to play catch up with a classic destabilization campaign, which is how the CIA would view the Orange Revolution.
Significantly, the first ten years of funding for Katya's U.S.-Ukraine Foundation was separate from the $65 million in U.S. spending quoted by the Associated Press. AP's figure does include money to bring Yushchenko to meet as-yet unnamed U.S. government officials.
No doubt, both Washington and Moscow will continue to meddle in Ukraine through and beyond the new run-off election, now scheduled for December 26. What the rest of us might ask - wherever we live - is how to respond.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604A.shtml
Katherine Chumachenko on June 20 (1988) assumed the position of associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. In that capacity she is the Reagan administration's ethnic affairs liaison.
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1988/528823.shtml
LEGAL AND LEGAL RELATED ENTITIES IN UKRAINE (Feb 2002)
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Central & East European Law Initiative (CEELI)
ASSOCIATES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT (ARD)/CHECCHI RULE OF LAW CONSORTIUM-KYIV
HARVARD INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (HIID) (macroeconomic policy/legal reform)
IFES (International Foundation For Electoral Systems)
IRIS (International Reform and the Informal Sector)
RULE OF LAW CONSORTIUM
UKRAINIAN LEGAL FOUNDATION
U.S. TREASURY TAX ADVISOR FOR UKRAINE
BARENTS GROUP, LLC (limited liability company - lawyers)
Katherine Chumachenko, Country Manager
x, xxxxxxxx., Kyiv 01034, Ukraine
Tel: xxxxx; Fax: xxxxxx
E-mail: xxxxxxx
(snip snip snip – an AWFUL lot of US lawyers and accounting businesses over there)
ARNOLD & PORTER
HAIGHT, GARDNER, POOR & HAVENS
ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO., SC (accounting & consulting services)
DELOITTE & TOUCHE (accounting, audit and consulting service)
ERNST & YOUNG (accounting, audit and consulting service)
KPMG (accounting, audit and consulting service)
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (management, audit and tax consulting)
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisdoc/020225uklegcos.htm
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Bosnia: Sex trade claims against US companies spread 8/22/02 ( Bosnia: Sex Trade Claims Spread ) ((only related to the company but I found this interesting becauase in every ex Soviet Country the US has gone, prostitution & white slaery have flourished))
Another western organisation in Bosnia is hit by allegations that its workers were using prostitutes
By Julie Poucher Harbin in Sarajevo (BCR No 360, 21-Aug-02)
A Bosnian driver has alleged that he was sacked from a US-backed development project in Sarajevo after expressing discomfort at ferrying around prostitutes.
Edin Zundo has filed suit against KPMG Consulting over the termination of his contract six months early by its Barents Group division, claiming it was a result of his complaints.
The action, which is due in court next month, comes in the wake of other recent cases involving western companies operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina facing accusations against staff using prostitutes, as well as a major controversy over the UN's alleged involvement in the Balkan sex trade.
(snip)
The Virginia-based Barents works as a contractor for the US Agency for International Development, USAID, managing major programmes to help regulate and supervise Bosnia's post-war banking system.
(snip)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020821_1_eng.txt
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:hf0Z21EGtogJ:www.afrocubaweb.com/news/worldnews50.htm+%22BARENTS+GROUP%22+rumsfeld&hl=en
And of course, our little friend Soros is right smack in the middle of this. Last night I read that he invested $100,000 in this election but have yet to find a good source that specifies more than generic "millions".
This is stinking really badly.
CASE Ukraine has a substantial research background. Since 1995 our experts have worked in a number of joint projects with Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), the Soros International Economic Advisory Group (SIEAG), the Barents Group and other.
Areas of Concentration
· Macroeconomic policy:
tax reform, financial sector reform, fiscal imbalance measurement, demonetization, exchange rate policy and financial crises. A large part of our work is designated to the challenges that transition countries face in the sphere of institutional development: virtual economy, barter, arrears, property rights protection, non-monetary transactions and other.
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· Enterprise restructuring and development:
study of effects of privatization on enterprise performance; conduct of enterprise surveys; studies on economic growth, competitiveness assessment, foreign direct investment, bankruptcy procedures, and taxation.
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· Banking sector:
complex analyses of banking system functioning: the role of banks in enterprise crediting and growth of the economy, central bank's policies in the sphere of bank regulation and supervision.
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· Trade policy:
studies on the issues of foreign trade policies in the context of WTO accession.
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· Social policy:
conduct of household survey in 1999 and 2000 to get a reliable information on living standards in Ukraine; analysis of informal labor market in the frames of development of the National program to combat poverty.
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· Public sector reform:
strengthening the reform capacity. Our team assisted in many reform efforts in Ukraine, especially in developing the government programs: Pynzenyk comprehensive reform package “Economic Growth-1997” and the Yushchenko government's program “Reforms for Welfare” in spring 2000. The former included reforms in such areas as fiscal policy, deregulation, social policy, monetary policy and financial regulation, enterprise restructuring and privatization, external relations. “Reforms for Welfare” program is notable for its market reforms orientation: leveling of “rules of game”, provision of transparency, introduction of effective bankruptcy procedures etc.
http://www.case-ukraine.kiev.ua/aboutUs.html
Well, it just goes on… 153 results for "Barents Group" + Soros
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Пам’ятали й у Державному департаменті США і в червні 2000 р., коли Держдеп спільно з U. S. & Foreign commercial service у своєму аналітичному огляді «International market insight: The overview of privatization in Ukraine» рекомендував Katherine Chumachenko, регіонального директора (Country Manager) фірми Barents group, LLC (limited liability company – lawyers), як консультанта з «питань приватизації в Україні».
http://www.fin.org.ua/newws.php?i=271351
And last but not least from my late night search: NNOHLI's DU thread is already making the rounds :toast:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1061545&mesg_id=1061545&listing_type=#1062370
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