hiding in russia after his government is overthrown, manafort and kilimnik seem to continue to have some political work, at least continue to maintain political contacts and some political interests in ukraine with the successor agencies, the successor parties to the guy who they had previously worked for. but the successor government to yanukovych is interested in getting at the corruption. that was part of his administration. and as they re investigating corruption and clep tok rah cy in that government they actually start investigating meaningfully paul manafort and whether or not he was committing crimes essentially against the people of ukraine. is that fair? it s a little bit more complicated than that. actually, it s a lot more complicated than that i think. but especially when you re dealing with ukraine. ukraine is not a monolithic country. it is a democracy, even when it was ruled by yanukovych. when he left, the parties, the forces, the political forces,
politics into doing business dealings in the region as well, including some attempted business partnerships with a somewhat terrifying russian oligarch who is close to vladimir putin and who famously cannot get a visa to visit the united states because of his alleged ties to organized crime. according to multiple civil lawsuits about their failed business dealings, paul manafort ended up owing that guy, oleg deripaska, many millions of dollars. i don t know any of the people involved here personally, but i m guessing that oleg deripaska is not the kind of guy who was very comfortable to owe millions of dollars to. i m just sort of thinking he might be the kind of guy that that keeps you up at night. konstantin kilimnik appears to be paul manafort s right-hand man both in terms of his political work in ukraine but also his business dealings in that part of the world including his dealings with oleg deripaska. and then kilimnik turns up in these absolutely remarkable e-mails that were fi
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were in attendance. so how did the fsb find out what had happened at that retreat? how were they able to quote from what happened? there s a number of possibilities, right? it s possible that the fsb just mounted some sort of covert surveillance on that retreat location. so they listened in somehow and that s how they knew. it s also possible that one of the americans who was there, one of the american employees of this organization maybe went and ted the fsb, maybe one of the american employees of the international republican institute was secretly a spy working for the russians. that s possible. but within the organization, within the national republican institute, serious suspicion at the time quickly fell on one of the two non-americans who had been at that retreat. because between that retreat that somehow got spied on and the denunciation of that group in parliament by the head of the fsb quoting from what happened at the retreat between these two dates, one of the two non-americ
whaended up ed wa ended up being the big surprise here today was paul manafort wasn t charged alone, the superseding indictment wasn t just for him, he was charged alongside konstantin kilimnik, kostia from the g.r.u., the guy who ak in the day was spakted of narcing out this american pro-democracy outfit that the fsb denounced as an enemy of the state after they somehow got a hold of the internal workings of that organization pf old konstantin kilimnik was the guy indicted alongside paul manafort. he became the 20th individual who has been charged thus far in mueller s investigation into the russian attack on our presidential election and the connection between that attack and the trump campaign. of the 20 individuals who have thus far been charged, konstantin kilimnik is the 14th russian individual to have been charged. there s been 20 people charged. 14 of them russians. but konstantin kilimnik, his role here is nothing like all