The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Is the US Funding an Experiment in Digital Control in Ukraine? Marie Hawthorne I Fighting between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for a little over a year now, ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men and displacing millions.  Ukraine’s Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov,  invited Western arms manufacturers  to test their newest weapons against Russians in 2022. And indeed, all kinds of weaponry have been flowing into Ukraine.  It is truly a testing ground. So, this begs the question, is anything else getting tested there?  The Ukrainian government seems pretty willing to use its own citizens as guinea pigs, and the American government seems pretty willing to foot the bill.  Are American tax dollars going to any other interesting projects? Here’s what the US is funding in Ukraine. Yes, actually.  Volodymyr Zelensky became president of Ukraine in May 2019, and almost immediately he introduced his idea of a “ country in a smartphone .” In early September 2019,  Ukrai

Zelensky's Great Purge continues, launching police raid against oligarch who fell out of favor with Biden Admin The Ukrainian president's longtime political and financial patron is no longer in the good graces of the people in charge. Jordan Schachtel Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky just sicced his secret police (Ukraine’s SBU) on Igor Kolomoisky, a billionaire oligarch who was once wholly responsible for financing the Ukrainian president’s rise to power. The significance of the story — regarding Zelensky turning on his longtime patron and Kolomoisky’s other significant ties — was entirely buried by foreign and state media, with most merely referring to the situation as another in a series of “anti-corruption” actions. The New Voice of Ukraine @NewVoiceUkraine The case concerns the alleged embezzlement of oil products worth UAH 40 billion ($1.09 billion) and customs duty evasion "of astronomical amounts." english.nv.ua SBU searches oligarch Kolomoisky’s reside