Putin’s PM pick wins backing
EX-US AMBASSADOR ‘TARGETED’
UKRAINIAN police have opened an investigation into the possibility that the US ambassador came under illegal surveillance by an unknown party before she was recalled from her post in May.
The announcement came two days after Democratic politicians in the United States released a trove of documents that showed Lev Parnas, an associate of US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, communicating about the removal of Marie Yovanovitch as the ambassador to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry, which runs the police forces, said in a statement that Ukrainian police “are not interfering in the internal political affairs of the US.
“However, the published messages contain facts of possible violations of Ukrainian law and of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which protect the rights of diplomats on the territory of another state.”
In another move touching on the Trump impeachment, Ukraine said it was opening an investigation into reports that Russian hackers gained access to computers of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Hunter Biden, the son of Trump opponent Joe Biden, was on the board of that company.
POLITICIANS in Russia have quickly sealed the appointment of a new prime minister a day after President Vladimir Putin kicked off an unexpected reshuffle of his inner circle. Mikhail Mishustin, 53, replaces Dmitry Medvedev, who was Russia’s PM for the past eight years.