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This is the future where diplomats, generals, and CIA officers jostle for who profits from Ukraine's privatization.
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So many former American officials have returned to Kosovo for business — in coal and telecommunications, or for lobbying and other lucrative government contracts — that it is hard to keep them from colliding.
They also include Wesley K. Clark, a retired Army general and the former supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe who ran the bombing campaign against the Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic; and Mark Tavlarides, who was legislative director at the Clinton White House’s National Security Council.
The State Department has no policy that forbids former diplomats to lobby on behalf of nations where they served or returning to them for profit, beyond the one applying to federal employees as a whole, which prohibits senior officials from contacting agencies where they once worked for one year and bans all federal employees for life from advising on the same matters.
Kosovo is not the only nation where former officials have returned to conduct business — Iraq is another example — but it presents an extreme case, and perhaps a special ethical quandary, given the outsize American influence here. Pristina, the capital, may be the only city in the world where Bob Dole Street intersects Bill Clinton Boulevard.
Foreign policy experts say the practice of former officials’ returning for business is more common than acknowledged publicly. Privately, former officials concede the possibility of conflicts of interest and even the potential to influence American foreign policy as diplomats who traditionally made careers in public service now rotate more frequently to lucrative jobs in the private sector.
Russia's Gazprom has begun construction on the TurkStream gas pipeline under the Black Sea to Turkey. Feeder lines are planned to also supply EU markets.
Judging by the comments, the police is working "on a problem" for Eurovision - so that Nationalists running the show in Ukraine wouldn't be THAT obvious.
(Pravy Sector was trying to pull some crap in Nikolayev yesterday too... But to no avail. )
Ukraine must to get rid bloody USSR history from own territory!
Its only way to living
Straight bloody history of the USSR)) Yeah))
But you continue. It is necessary to get rid of territories, inheritance, history, sovereignty and so on. Is it right?
Acquire yoke, debts and "live free" yeah.
A couple of pictures from the blessed story of a well-educated, civilized Europe.
Galacia should become it's own country. Neither Poland or Ukraine should own it.
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