Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersKIEV, Ukraine—Before Hillary Clinton became his target in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Paul Manafort had for years concentrated his considerable skills at defamation and denigration on another prominent female politician, Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. Today, Tymoshenko’s supporters will tell you Manafort’s many years serving as an adviser to the country’s disgraced former president, Viktor Yanukovych, left on Ukraine’s politics a lingering stain visible still in an election campaign now underway. And meanwhile the public is so fed up with all that, it might even choose a popular comedian as the country’s next president. …read more
Source: The Daily Beast