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In this morning's FARA Monitor: PR agents for a Swiss nonprofit are circulating a column calling on the Trump administration to nix tariffs on "geographically rooted" goods such as Swiss watches
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In this morning's FARA Monitor: state-owned Venezuelan oil company PDVSA has brought on Hogan Lovells to help restructure the company's debt amid a much larger countrywide debt package considered the largest restructuring in history. $6.9M over six months
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In FARA Monitor subscriber inboxes this morning: financial details of a Saudi-backed venture capital firm's investment activity
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Also in this morning's FARA Monitor: foreign agents for the Bosnian region of Srpska distributing a recent column by ex-Illinois governor, and son of Serb immigrants, Rod Blagojevich
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Newsy item in this morning's FARA Monitor: acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez has a new US attorney and lobbyist conducting White House and State Department outreach—and laying the groundwork for Rodriguez's "future political campaign"
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👀 alert in FARA Monitor subscribers' inboxes over the weekend: a new foreign agent registration on behalf of Russian national Alexey Kuzovkin to "counter sanctions exposure and rebut allegations made by third parties," including a specific named individual
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Also in today's FARA Monitor: biannual disclosure by the Austin attorney hired by the Mexican government to sue US firearm companies
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Lots of activity in this morning's FARA Monitor related to US- and opposition-aligned divisions of Venezuela's state-owned oil company
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Interesting detail in this morning's FARA Monitor alerts: a key Chinese state propaganda arm in the US has a new Beijing-based boss
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From the weekend's FARA Monitor alerts: foreign agents for the United Arab Emirates circulating the UAE ambassador's WSJ column on Iran with key hill staffers
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In this morning's FARA Monitor: the politically connected firm Javelin Advisors has inked a $50k/month lobbying deal with Taiwan
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In this morning's FARA Monitor: interesting details of Israeli messaging on the Iran war
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Some notable filings in this morning's batch of new FARA records, including a Taiwanese political party hitting its domestic opposition as Beijing-aligned and Nigeria looking to get White House meetings on critical minerals policy. faramonitor.com
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