Subject: FW: RFE/RL Svoboda Today - 01.12.2015
From: "Sally Painter" <[email-masked]>
To: "Devon Archer" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Karen Tramontano" <[email-masked]>, "Sean Keeley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:56:35 +0000

FYI
From: Sean Keeley
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 10:16 AM
To: Sally Painter <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: RFE/RL Svoboda Today - 01.12.2015

Here is my translation of a Russian version of the same article. The gist of it is that the Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, has appointed Nazar Holodnitsky to head the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. He was formerly the Deputy Prosecutor General in Crimea.

From: Sally Painter
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 8:42 AM
To: Sean Keeley
Subject: FW: RFE/RL Svoboda Today - 01.12.2015

Please translate article on Prosecutor's office s

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