Schiff & Ukraine - 1/?
Fund-raiser on Jul 18, 2013 for the 2014 primary election and 2014 general election at his home in D.C.
https://apelbaum.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/adam-schiff-igor-pasternak-fundraising.pdf(pdf courtesy of The Sunight Foundation's Party Time www.politicalpartytime.org)
Schiff's staffer, Thomas Eager, VISIT TO UKRAINE
Table showing which staffers went on Ukraine trip
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFhEqs7X0AAftih.jpgEmployee Post-Travel Disclosure Form
https://apelbaum.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/adam-schiff-staffer-travel-to-ukraine.pdf8-24-19 - 8-31-19 travel to Ukraine, paid for by Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center (Sponsor)
Itinerary includes multiple meetings/talks with "Representatives of the Operation of the United Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine"
First night meet with Amb. William B Taylor
First night briefing & dinner: current state of Ukraine (topic, new Ukrainian admin) - overview given "from the perspective of a former US ambassador to Ukraine, with a particular focus on the events at Maidan in 2014"
NO MENTION OF WHO 'FORMER AMBASSADOR' IS
8-27-19 Kramatorsk, Ukraine
Meeting with Local Activists & Residents
Participants: Local residents representing local NGOs, new sources, and government, including: Movement for Strong Communities (NGO), Sloviansk Together (NGO), Ukrainians for Donetsk Oblast (NGO), East and West Together (NGO), Women Helping Veterans (NGO), Sloviansk Community Council, Oblast Administration for Veterans
Topics: History of the USAID funded Window to America in the Sloviansk Library
Atlantic Council features:
Dmitri Alperovitch - Senior Fellow, Cyber; Statecraft Initiative, Co-Founder & CTO Crowdstrike
David Kramer, McCain Institute Human Rights & Democracy Senior Dir. (very involved w/ US policy toward Ukraine
Geysha Gonzales - Dep. Dir Eurasia Center Atlantic Council, Expert on fighting fake news
IGOR PASTERNAK
From Ukrain's new AK-M16 mashup rifle:
UOP = Ukraine’s central state arms company, UkrOboronProm
In a New Year’s statement on Jan. 3, 2018, announced it had delivered the initial batch of WAC-47s to unspecified units by way of American firm Aeroscraft.
But for Ukraine, the WAC-47’s potential multi-caliber nature is inherently political, as
well. UOP makes it clear that the new guns are as much about modernizing their military as they are about cutting away the last links to the old Soviet Union and post-Soviet R
ussia.
Underscoring these statements is UOP’s partnership with Aeroscraft, a division of
Worldwide Aeros Corporation. The firm’s main business is lighter-than-air craft, such as
blimps and tethered aerostats.
Igor Pasternak, who grew up in Soviet Kazakhstan, first founded Aeros Limited in Soviet
Ukraine in 1986, becoming one of the Soviet Union’s first private engineering firms to
appear under Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika reforms, according to his company's website.
http://aeroscraft.com/history/4575665539Pasternak subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1993 and has steadily become an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies, especially with regards to Ukraine.
From PRESS RELEASE:
https://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/09/prweb12986797.htm (PRWEB) September 26, 2015
LOS ANGELES | WASHINGTON DC | The Government of Ukraine and Aeroscraft Corporation (Aeros) held a press conference today in Los Angeles, revealing further details about the cooperative partnership to strengthen the border protection agency of Ukraine with additional wide area situational awareness capabilities. The partnership with Ukraine, Aeros, and UkoBoronProm first announced in Kiev earlier this month will see the Ukraine-Russian border protected by a series of Aeros made Elevated Early Warning Systems (EEWS). Senior Ukrainian officials were joined for the conference today by Aeros’ CEO Igor Pasternak and CA State Assemblyman, Matt Dababneh (45th District).
Aeros, based in Southern California