Documentation on Russian Money on Capitol Hill
In my last couple of posts, I have written about a Russian oligarch funding lobbyists on Capitol Hill to spread false narratives about Ukraine. This is a quick guide to the documentation.
Russian money on Capitol Hill is behind the message also being propagated by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and others.
Robert Amsterdam is a lawyer who is employed by Russian/Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Novynskyi who is spreading the false narrative on Capitol Hill that Ukraine is persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
The Russian Orthodox Church is a working arm of the Kremlin. Patriarch Kirill, the head of both the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, has declared a holy war on Ukraine and the West. He has told Russians if they die fighting in Ukraine, all their sins will be washed away. He stopped short of offering 72 virgins, but Kirill’s effort to create martyrs is no different than that of ISIS or Hamas.
Almost 100 clergy from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - clergy who have reported to Kirill all their lives - are on trial for espionage related crimes assisting the Russian military. This only scratches the surface. Ukraine Freedom Project polling shows that hundreds of thousands of former UOC parishioners left the church because they had seen clergy do things to aid the Russian war effort or say things that were anti-Ukraine.
My friend Bishop Nicodemus from Kherson left the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a few years back because it was too pro-Russian. Thousands of clergy went with him. As Bishop Nicodemus says, “These (UOC) priests are not on trial for believing in Jesus, but for believing in the terrorist Putin.”
Reigning in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a national security issue for Ukraine, not a religious issue. The WSJ gave a good primer on the national security implications. Here is a deep dive I wrote about the Russian money behind Marjorie Taylor Greene’s message.
On August 23 of last year, Amsterdam & Partners issued a press release on their website announcing their retainer by Novynskyi.
Amsterdam fails to note that Novynskyi is a Russian oligarch granted Ukrainian citizenship in May 2012 by pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich also gave Novynkyi a seat in the Ukrainian parliament. Novynskyi is known as “Putin’s Whip” for his role in the Ukrainian parliament of championing pro-Russia legislation. Novynskyi is currently a deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church in Zurich.
According to Congressional records, Amsterdam is paying $200,000 a year to Nelson Mullins, the largest law firm in South Carolina, to spread the false Novynskyi/Amsterdam message on Capitol Hill that Ukraine is persecuting Christians.
The #Russian “bots” are out and about trying to paint #Ukraine’s #Azov-brigade fighters in an unfavorable light given the pending vote on #Ukraine-aid in the U.S. Congress. Here is my response to the fools still capturing their monthly salaries in rubles … “You've been misled and are parroting #RazPutin's #Kremlin-narrative. The reason #RazPutin and his troops are terrified of #Ukraine's #Azov-brigade is because he knows they are the most ferocious and dedicated battalion on the planet! To the #Ukrainian-people they are the most heroic compatriots with absolutely no "quit" in them enduring extremes that would turn a common man's guts inside-out irrespective of any ancient symbolism they may rally around, if any. On the other hand, the #Amerikan-nazis like yourself should pick up your torch-carrying tiddlywinks, quit your domestic terrorism against our #Hebrew-Amerikan families here in #Amerika, and go join the #Azov-brigade ranks at the front lines in #Ukraine if you really want to show us your valor, which of course you pussies have none!” ~ Eat Like a Soviet Eugene
Moscow Marjorie!!