{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"How Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia’s Man in Ukraine","description":"By the account of his lawyer, Paul Manafort went to work in Ukraine in 2005 with the most spotless of intentions. \"[He] represented pro-European Union campaigns for the Ukrainians,\" the attorney, Kevin Downing, said in a statement. \"And in the course of that representation he was seeking to further democracy and to help the Ukrainians come closer to the United States and to the E.U.\"\n\nBut that's not how U.S. diplomats saw it at the time. A U.S.","author_name":"TIME's Top Stories","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/30696075/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}