Yanukovych “owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it, an ‘extreme makeover’ Mr. Manafort oversaw,” Steven Lee Myers and Andrew E. Kramer reported in the Times on Sunday.(…)
But information contained in the WikiLeaks database of U.S. diplomatic cables suggests Manafort also maintained close ties with U.S. ambassadors and intelligence agencies while advocating for Yanukovych.