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Andrew Weissmann and his part in decades of criminal activities. We first heard about Andrew Weissmann during the Mueller Special Counsel. It was uncovered that Weissmann was at Hillary’s 2016 Inauguration [funeral] party. This made no sense to this former international audit executive. There are ethics practices in auditing that prevent partaking in audits where you have a conflict of interest, whether real or perceived. This guy Weissmann should never have been assigned to the Mueller team. Something was up. Some believe the Mueller gang was led by Weissmann. This gang deviated from standard practices or committed crimes over 130...

A Ukraine court has found former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of authority for signing gas contracts with Russia and sentenced her Tuesday to seven years in prison. Authorities deployed hundreds of police officers around the court to keep order, state media reported. Dozens of angry Tymoshenko supporters took to the streets of Kiev in August when she was taken into custody. "Dear friends, I just want to say that I disagree with this verdict and I am saying that the year 1937 is back again," Tymoshenko said in the courtroom on Tuesday, making a reference to Josef...

Dmytro Firtash, the Ukrainian businessman named as a major shareholder in RosUkrEnergo, emerged from the shadows last week as he pledged transparency for the multibillion-dollar gas trader in a string of first-time interviews with Western newspapers. In interviews with The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Austria's Kurier newspaper published Friday, Firtash told of his rise to the top of the Turkmen-Ukrainian gas trade. From small beginnings in 1990s barter deals, he graduated to owning 90 percent of Centragas, the Vienna-registered vehicle that owns half of RosUkrEnergo, the monopoly gas trader for Ukraine, Firtash said. It was unclear Tuesday...

The war between Russia and Ukraine about natural gas is over, but this is not the end of the drama. Already fires up a bluish light of the new conflict – except this time, the conflict is Ukraine vs. Ukraine. The opposition is serious and determined to prove that Victor Yushchenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov and Co. did not win at all (as is perceived by many), but instead embarrassingly lost [the recent Russia-Ukraine energy conflict]. And consequently, they deserve obstruction, ostracism and a full defeat at the March parliamentary elections. Yesterday’s enemies – Yulia Tymoshenko and Inna Bohoslovska, Natalya Vitrenko and...

The agreement which ends the several weeks-long gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine benefits both sides, but Ukraine gains more On 4 January, Ukraine and Russia reached a compromise that ended their prolonged gas dispute. Financially, the agreement is beneficial for both sides, although Ukraine has managed to win more for itself: Gazprom will sell gas to Kiev through its daughter company RosUkrEnergo at US$95 per 1000 m3, i.e. at nearly twice last year's price, but the price is still much lower than what the Russian monopoly had tried to impose during the conflict (the price quoted by the Russians...

MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Europe may have breathed a collective sigh of relief after Russia and Ukraine signed a long-term gas supply deal, averting a possible repetition of the New Year supply cutbacks that unnerved the continent. But after a closer look at the complex pact signed on Wednesday, outsiders may yet have cause for concern about the region's energy security, especially after Ukraine's ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko launched a legal challenge to stop the deal. The accord uses as middleman a little-known Swiss-based joint venture called RosUkrEnergo, owned half by Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZPPE.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research) and...