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Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
f the US State Department's Victoria Nuland had not said "Fuck the EU," few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington's man in Kiev is gaining fame as the face of the CIA-style "destabilization campaign" that brought down Ukraine's monumentally corrupt but legitimately elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
FOCUS | Part II: Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
s the new US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt was taking the measure of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in September, Bill and Hillary Clinton visited historic Crimea. The region was still under Kiev's control, though the Russians held a long lease on bases in Sebastopol, where they keep their prized Black Sea Fleet.
This story should also explain why in September 2013 the US Navy website offered jobs for "School"-renovations in Sebastopol, Crimea. Should have saved the link, as I can't find the page anymore.
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