into electoral activism , but I come to this with a history of building coalitions to advance the public health , to promote good jobs . We actually worked on a referendum , I should mention as well , to promote jobs in clean renewable energy at the state level , at least to go on record that there was enormous public support for moving in that direction and shifting public subsidies from fossil fuels and other harmful large interests into sustainable development at the local level . So that ’s the kind of experience I come with , building broad coalitions across many public interest groups in order to advance the public interest , and we ’ve discovered in the process of this that our biggest obstacle is entrenched political power for advancing the public interest .
At the time , Akhmetov was assembling a team of consultants to burnish the reputation of his business . It was facing regulatory action from a new government that had taken over when Yanukovych , who had been prime minister , lost his hold on power after his party tried to rig an October 2004 election to make him president . Kilimnik was recruitedpersonnel.startposition.nato join Manafort ’s team by a former IRI official named Philip M. Griffin , who had worked with Kilimnik at the institute . When IRI officials found out , they asked Kilimnik to resign for violating the nonprofit ’s moonlighting prohibition . Several people around IRI say they suspected the institute regarded Kilimnik as too closely allied with Russia — even before he went to work for Akhmetov .
“ Indeed , the Sinai province is considered one of the most powerful and effective among these extensions . ” Mr. Phillips said the Arab Spring uprising centered in Cairo fed the Islamic State the fighters it needed in Sinai as many Islamists were released from prisons . “ Extremist groups flourished in the Sinai , where they recruitedpersonnel.startposition.nadisaffected Bedouin tribes , which had long resented what they perceived to be neglect and marginalization at the hands of the Egyptian government , ” he said . “ The Sinai also offered a conduit to Gaza , where extremists received support from Hamas and other radical Palestinian Islamist groups . ” Counteroffensive