| − | [[Obama regime]] ambassador [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] arrived in Kyiv on August 3, 20213. Almost immediately Pyatt authorized a grant for Hromadske TV, which would prove essential to building the [[Euromaidan]] street demonstrations against Ukraine's [[democratically]] elected president, [[Victor Yanukovych]]. The grant was only $43,737, with an additional $4,796 by November 13, 2013, enough to buy the modest equipment the project needed. | + | [[Obama regime]] ambassador [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] arrived in Kyiv on August 3, 20213. Almost immediately Pyatt authorized a grant for Hromadske TV, which would prove essential to building the [[Euromaidan]] street demonstrations against Ukraine's [[democracy|democratically]] elected president, [[Victor Yanukovych]]. The grant was only $43,737, with an additional $4,796 by November 13, 2013, enough to buy the modest equipment the project needed. |
| | Many of Hromadske's journalists had worked in the past with American benefactors. Editor-in-chief Roman Skrypin was a frequent contributor to Washington's Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertyand the US-funded Ukrayinska Pravda. In 2004, he had helped create Channel 5 television, which played a major role in the Orange Revolution that the US and its European allies masterminded in 2004. | | Many of Hromadske's journalists had worked in the past with American benefactors. Editor-in-chief Roman Skrypin was a frequent contributor to Washington's Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertyand the US-funded Ukrayinska Pravda. In 2004, he had helped create Channel 5 television, which played a major role in the Orange Revolution that the US and its European allies masterminded in 2004. |