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The Independent: How Putin’s best friend in Ukraine is staging an improbable comeback

By The Independent.

Published Sept. 2, 2018 at 11:27 am

Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Choice NGO and the main negotiator in the prisoner exchange process, speaks during the interview with the Kyiv Post in his office in Kyiv in February 2014.

Photo by Pavlo Podufalov

He is known to his critics as Ukraine’s Prince of Darkness, a toxic presence. But Viktor Medvedchuk would like people to know that he’s back.

The former lawyer, a man who counts Russian president Vladimir Putin as godfather to his child, was one of the very first people to be included on US sanctions lists.