Pinchuk & Schoen

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************************************************* VICTOR PINCHUK ****************************************************
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++++++++ WHO IS HE? +++++++++
WIKIPEDIA LEAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk

Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk (born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist. As of January 2016, Forbes ranked him as 1250th on the list of wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of $1.44 billion.

Pinchuk is the founder and main owner of EastOne Group LLC, an international investing, project funding and financial advisory company based in London, and of Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading pipe, wheel and steel producers. Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and a popular tabloid, Fakty i Kommentarii. He has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006. He is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

MINDMAP IN MUCKETY
http://www.muckety.com/Victor-Pinchuk/105521.muckety

MINDMAP IN BUBBL
https://bubbl.us/?s=7120429#MzU3MDgxMS83MTIwNDI5LzM1ZjYyNTE2YjcwMzE0YzZkNGRkZGNmMjZiY2FjZThj?X

Interview in Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianaserafin/2013/05/08/ukrainian-billionaire-victor-pinchuk-on-wealth-creation-and-growing-ukraines-standing/#6e53ded344a7

IMPORTANT ARTICLE
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/155976/ukraines-western-face

++++++++ INTERPIPE GROUP ++++++++++++
From their site:
Interpipe is the integrated pipe and wheel Company, a member of the TOP 10 list of the world’s largest seamless pipes’ producers. In 2012 the company’s mills produced more than 1.1 million tons of pipe products.

Interpipe is the third largest producer of solid-rolled railway wheels in the world. In 2012 the production was more than 250 thousand tons of wheel products.

*INTERPIPE GROUP BOARD
http://interpipe.biz/en/company/board
>Oleg Rozenberg: Chief Executive Officer
>Denis Morozov: Chief Financial Officer
>Andrey Likhomanov: Economic Security Director
>Mauro Longobardo: Chief Operating Officer

*LOBBYING
lobbying for North American Interpipe by the Hogan Lovells US LLP:

LD-2
$20,000
Mark S. McConnel
Specific lobbying issues: Potential trade restrictions on import of steel pipe from Ukraine
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2014/Q1/300646642.xml

LD-2
$200,000
Mark S. McConnel, Norm Coleman, H.P. Goldfield, Warren H. Maruyama
Specific lobbying issues: Potential trade restrictions on import of steel pipe from Ukraine
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2014/Q2/300666377.xml

LD-2
$10,000
Mark S. McConnel
Specific lobbying issues: Potential trade restrictions on import of steel pipe from Ukraine
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2014/3T/300689449.xml

LD-1
Mark S. McConnel
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldxmlrelease/2014/RR/300632074.xml

but when switched from "Electronic" to "All", also got these two from 2002:

http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=8001351
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=7475529
Lobbying firm: GARVEY SCHUBERT BARER

+++++++++ EASTONE GROUP ++++++++++++
http://eastonegroup.com/eng/about_company.php
EastOne Group is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographies and industry sectors.

EXECUTIVES
http://eastonegroup.com/eng/Our_team.php
> Kirill Rubinski: Chief Executive Officer
> Yuliya Chebotariova: Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer
> Andriy Dudnyk: Executive Director, Chief Investment Officer
> Vladimir Mandrychenko: Chief Financial Officer
> Yakov Konstantinovsky: Director of the Dnepropetrovsk Office
> Rodion Kuhaev: Director, Head of Investment Department
> Viktor Mokhortov: Director, Head of Information and Analytical Support Department
> Michael Tsarev: Director, Head of Internal Control and Audit Department


+++++++++ VICTOR PINCHUK FOUNDATION +++++++++++
*ABOUT THE FOUNDATION*
http://pinchukfund.org/en/about_fund/activity/
> Who we are
>> The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is an international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine. The Foundation was established in 2006 by businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk.
> Our vision
>> We believe that the future has to be addressed now and that each of us has the power to act.
>> We believe that empowered future generations can be a major driver of change.
>> We believe that long-term and large scale social investments can create a favorable environment enabling people to take their destinies into their own hands.
> Our mission
>> Our goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this goal, we develop a variety of projects, build partnerships in >> Ukraine and worldwide, and invest in three main areas:
>> - in people, to boost human capital,
>> - in society, to promote social responsibility,
>> - in the world, to foster a more integrated world

BOARD:
>Thomas Weihe: Head of the Board
>Victoria Chernyavska: Executive Director
>Bjorn Geldhof: Deputy Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre
>Dmitry Logvin: Executive Director of the PinchukArtCentre
>Dr. Svitlana Kovalchuk: Director of International Projects / Executive Director of Yalta European Strategy

PARTNERS:
http://pinchukfund.org/en/about_fund/partners/
>European Foundation Centre
>Укpaїнcький фopyм блaгoдiйникiв (Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum)
>Yalta European Strategy
>'''Clinton Global Initiative'''
>Brookings
>'''Open Society Foundations'''
>The Aspen Institute
>Peterson Institute for International Economics
>Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation
>New Life (some Ukrainian government program: https://web.archive.org/web/20140927102500/http://www.ukrproject.gov.ua/project/nove-zhittya)

++++++++++++ YALTA EUROPEAN STRATEGY +++++++++++++
ABOUT
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/about

>YES was established in 2004 by Ukrainian businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk and is led by a distinguished board chaired by President of Poland (1995-2005) Aleksander Kwasniewski.

>The YES Annual Meetings, which have been held in Yalta’s Livadia Palace since 2004 until Crimea’s annexation in 2014 and then provisionally moved to Kyiv, have brought together world leaders in Ukraine to discuss strategies for Ukraine and Wider Europe on a global level, bring global thinking to Ukraine, and put Ukraine on the international agenda. The Annual Meetings have provided a platform for an open dialog between representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the EU, the US and beyond, as well as for the Ukrainian government and opposition.

>The YES Annual Meetings have brought together heads of state and government including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Bronisław Komorowski, Leonid Kuchma, Mario Monti, Shimon Peres, Yulia Tymoshenko, Gerhard Schröder and Viktor Yushchenko. Since 2004 among the speakers have been also senior ministers, politicians, and heads of international organizations like Kofi Annan, Eğemen Bağış, Carl Bildt, Hillary Clinton, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Joschka Fischer, Štefan Füle, Herman Gref, Vitaliy Klitschko, Alexei Kudrin, Pascal Lamy, Ronald Noble, David Petraeus, Petro Poroshenko, Condoleezza Rice, Bill Richardson, Radosław Sikorski, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Lawrence H. Summers, Shashi Tharoor, James Wolfensohn, Lamberto Zannier, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and Robert Zoellick. Politicians, businessmen and thinkers, including Newt Gingrich, Richard Branson, Niall Ferguson, Jin Liqun, Michio Kaku, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, and Muhammad Yunus have also spoken at YES Meetings.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS OF MEETINGS
>2008
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/2008/uchasniki
>2009
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/2009/perelik-uchasnikiv
>2010:
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/2010/spisok-uchasnikiv
>2011
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/2011/spisok-uchasnikiv
>2012
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/9-ta-yaltinska-shchorichna-zustrich/spisok-uchasnikiv
>2013
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/10th-yalta-annual-meeting/spisok-uchasnikiv
>2014
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/11th-yalta-annual-meeting/participants
>2015
http://yes-ukraine.org/en/Yalta-annual-meeting/12th-yalta-annual-meeting/participants
>2016
it's going to be held September 15–17, 2016

+++++++++++ DONATIONS +++++++++++++++
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http://www.infowars.com/chart-clinton-foundation-donations-linked-to-state-dept-favors/
Victor Pinchuk Foundation (Ukraine)
$8,600,000
Buy influence with Clinton at State to pressure Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to free jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

if that's the case, it didn't work out. Tymoshenko was freed long after Clinton stopped being Secretary of State. Tymoshenko was voted free BY PARLIAMENT on February 21, 2014. Euromaidan started on 21 November 2013 and whole Ukrainian revolution started on 18 February 2014.

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https://archive.is/X4qjh
>In 2008, Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects and funding for them but doesn’t handle the money. The pledge was to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals “to modernize Ukraine,” according to the Clinton Foundation. Several alumni are current members of the Ukrainian Parliament. Actual donations so far amount to only $1.8 million, a Pinchuk foundation spokesman said, citing the impact of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Megyn Kelly on Pinchuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tAOgAg_0Fk

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Pinchuk dondated $500,000 to Tony Blair Foundation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/9859780/Revealed-Tony-Blair-and-the-oligarch-bankrolling-his-charity.html

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DOUGLAS E. SHOEN
is this the same guy works for fox news

Douglas E. Schoen has served as a pollster for President Bill Clinton. He has more than 30 years experience as a pollster and political consultant. He is also a Fox News contributor and co-host of "Fox News Insiders" Sundays on Fox News.

Pinchuc has been using Douglas E. Schoen as his personal lobbyist in America.

From http://schoenconsulting.com/who-we-are/ :
"Schoen helped introduce Victor Pinchuk, Ukraine oligarch, financier, and former member of Parliament, to philanthropic and political groups that have made him an international figure who now serves on the boards of the Peterson Center for International Economics, the International Crisis Group and the Clinton Foundation."

His political clients have included Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, and his corporate clients have included Walmart, AOL Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and AT&T. Internationally, he has worked for the heads of states of over 15 countries, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and three Israeli Prime Ministers [Simon Peres, Ehud Barak - who is involved in Epstein's dirt, and Ehud Olmert]"

Dr. Douglas E. Schoen is one of the world's leading authorities on measuring public opinion. Over his 30 year career that has included work on 6 continents, Dr. Schoen has worked for Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ehud Olmert, Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi (who also had his fair share of scandals and was corrupt to the core), Leonel Fernandez, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

Schoen is currently a co-host of "Fox News Insiders"

Schoen attended YES (Yalta European Strategy) meetings every year since 2007.

++++++++ Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates +++++++++

http://psbresearch.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Schoen_Berland
Penn Schoen Berland (PSB) is a market research, political polling and strategic consulting firm based in the United States. The firm is named for founding partners Mark Penn, Douglas Schoen and Michael Berland. PSB was founded in 1975 and acquired by the British-based WPP Group in 2001.

Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates donated $50,000-$100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

+++++ LOBBYING ++++++++
Since 2011 for every 6 month period, Pinchuk was paying Schoen $40,000 for lobbying. Pinchuk is listed as the only Schoen client in each of this semi-annual report. Last report is for first half of 2015.

Links to reports:

https://www.fara.gov/reports/FARA_SAR_12312011.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/SAR_JUNE_2012.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/SAR_DEC_2012.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/SAR_JUNE_2013.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/FARA_DEC_2013.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/FARA_JUN_2014.pdf

Nature of Services: Lobbying
The registrant assisted in the dissemination of the foreign principal's views on democratization in Ukraine and
European integration and solicited the views of American policymakers.

https://www.fara.gov/reports/FARA_DEC_2014.pdf
https://www.fara.gov/reports/FARA_JUN_2015.pdf

Nature of Services: Lobbying
Activities: None Reported

+++++++++ YES MEETINGS +++++++
Doug Schoen is attending year after year Yalta Annual Meetings since 2008 (no participant list for 2007)
here's how he's listed:
>2008
Douglas Schoen Doug E. Schoen, Esq.
>2009

Schoen Douglas Member of the board of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation USA
>2010
Schoen Douglas Member of the Board Victor Pinchuk Foundation
>2011
SCHOEN Douglas Advisor to the Board, Victor Pinchuk Foundation
>2012
Douglas Schoen Advisor to the Board, Victor Pinchuk Foundation
>2013
SCHOEN Douglas Advisor to the Board, Victor Pinchuk Foundation
>2014
SCHOEN Douglas E.
Advisor to the Board, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, CEO, Schoen Consulting
>2015
Schoen Esq. Douglas E.
Founder, Douglas E. Schoen LLC

Let me remind you that these meetings are organized by Pinchuk

These two are really close to each other