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  • 2018-12-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Photograph of Robert Mueller Meeting with Viktor Yanukovych? (en)
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  • The Kremlin-backed English language news network RT pointed out what they viewed as a duplicitous double standard when it came to American interaction with pro-Russian politicians in an April 2018 post about a photograph showing former FBI director and current special counsel Robert Mueller meeting with former Ukrainian president (and noted Paul Manafort benefactor) Viktor Yanukovych, taken in 2013: The pro-Trump Reddit group r/TheDonald, as well as several online personalities who include the hashtag #MAGA in their biographies, have similarly run with this photograph of evidence of suspect activity on Mueller's part: The photograph is real, but it does not represent any sort of activity that Robert Mueller sought to hide from the American public — indeed, the meeting took place as part of his official business as FBI director. Following the Boston Marathon bombing, carried out by two brothers of Chechen descent, the United States and Russia made overtures to collaborate on anti-terrorism initiatives, as reported in the 2017 compilation of security documents titled Russia’s Resurgence: In June 2013, amid several meetings between member states of the security-oriented intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), FBI director Robert Mueller met with Victor Yanukovych, then the head of state for Ukraine (the country chairing the OSCE in 2013), as reported in a 5 June 2013 Facebook post from the Embassy of Ukraine in USA: In sum, the photograph is factual, but the implication that it documents some form of impropriety relies on a context-free retelling of an FBI director's performing his duties as an FBI director. (en)
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