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''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.
 
''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.
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===Torture and human rights violations===
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Journalist Dan Cohen reports:<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/</ref>
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{{quotebox-float|"On 21 July 2016, Amnesty International had issued ''“Torture and secret detention in Ukraine – new report”''. It said, for example: “The Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have detained civilians suspected of involvement with or supporting Russian-backed separatists, while the separatist forces have detained civilians suspected of supporting or spying for the Ukrainian government, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch found. In one case, ‘Vadim,’ 39, was detained and tortured first by one side, then the other. In April last year, armed men seized him at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces, pulled a bag over his head, and questioned him about his alleged connections with Russia-backed separatists. Vadim spent more than six weeks in captivity, most of the time in a facility apparently run by Ukraine’s Security Service ([[SBU]]) personnel. His interrogators tortured him with electric shocks, burned him with cigarettes, and beat him, demanding that he confess to working for Russia-backed separatists. After they finally released him, Vadim returned to [[Donetsk]] and was immediately detained by the local de facto authorities, who suspected him of having been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service during his time in captivity. He spent more than two months in incommunicado detention in an unofficial prison in central Donetsk, where his captors also beat and ill-treated him.”
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The entire report is 42 pages, and Vadim’s case is summarized on its page 6, at the start of the Report’s “Summary.” Nowhere in the Report is that term “ill-treated” defined. However, that same page also employs the phrase “torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Consequently, one may reasonably infer that “torture” relates to only the worst forms of “ill-treatment.”  Though “torture” was alleged regarding Vadim’s allegations against Ukraine’s government, the term “ill-treatment” was alleged regarding his allegations against the breakaway republics.
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There is every indication that Ukraine’s present Government is nazi-controlled, but neither in the breakaway republics nor in Crimea is the Government [[racist]]-[[fascist]] (or “[[nazi]]”): they are the exact opposite — intensely anti-nazi — and so, too, is Russia’s Federal Government. Whereas America and its [[CIA]] brought in and protected many thousands of Nazis after [[WW II]], the [[Soviet Union]] did the opposite: searched for them and killed them. Today’s Russia is continuing that aspect of its predecessor’s policies.  Allegations in [[The West]] to the contrary are not merely [[lie]]s: they are [[obscene]], vicious, anti-historical, lies, which come from the true heirs of (in fact, the modernized versions of) [[Hitler]], Gehlen, and [[Goebbels]]."}}
    
===Russia-Ukraine war===
 
===Russia-Ukraine war===
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