The most surprising thing about the thirty-one-page indictment of Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and his business partner Richard W. Gates III by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is that it hardly contains anything that was not known to people who have observed Ukraine. Manafort was the all-dominant political advisor to former President Viktor Yanukovych from the spring of 2005 until his fall in February 2014. Afterward Manafort continued to work for his successor party, the Opposition Bloc.
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Anders Åslund: What Manafort’s indictment means for the US and Ukraine
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves federal court, Oct. 30, in Washington, DC.
