Eurasia Center Deputy Director Melinda Haring, details in the Washington Post about how a recently released batch of new documents from Lev Parnas put her previous work on corruption in Ukraine into a different perspective.

I find myself wondering how the United States will be able to promote democracy and anti-corruption programs in Ukraine now that Americans acting in the name of the president have shown that they can be as transactional as the most ruthless oligarchs.”

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