Pinchuk is the founder of EastOne Group LLC, an international investing, project funding and financial advisory company based in London, and of
Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading pipe, wheel and steel producers. Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and a popular tabloid,
Fakty i Kommentarii. He has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the
Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006.
He is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
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Pinchuk has supported philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the
Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is now considered the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation.
[6] Its mission is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow; the foundation is active in the fields of health, education, culture, international affairs, human rights and local communities.
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The foundation's projects include the largest private scholarship program in Ukraine "Zavtra.UA", the scholarship program for Ukrainian students studying abroad "WorldWideStudies", and the annual "Ukrainian Lunch" and "Philanthropic Roundtable" on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
[18] The foundation supports and works with a variety of partners, including the network "Yalta European Strategy" created to promote Ukraine's European integration, the
Clinton Global Initiative, the
Kyiv School of Economics,
Tony Blair Faith Foundation, the
Brookings Institution, the
Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Israeli Presidential Conference "Facing Tomorrow", and the legal clinics/legal aid projects of the Renaissance Foundation.
Its projects include giving $150,000 to the Trump Foundation as speaking fee in 2015,
[19][20][21] the creation of a network of modern neonatal centres throughout Ukraine ("Cradles of Hope"), cooperation programs with the
Clinton Global Initiative,
[2] the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the ANTIAIDS Foundation of his wife Olena Pinchuk, the creation of the
Kyiv School of Economics, a cooperation with
the Aspen Institute, the opening of the first large scale contemporary art centre in Ukraine
PinchukArtCentre, the production and promotion of a film with
Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine, and support of local Jewish communities.
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Pinchuk has donated from $10 to $25 million to the
Clinton Foundation between 1994 and 2005.
[23] In 2000, Pinchuk hired former Clinton pollster Douglas Schoen on a $40,000 per month retainer.[8] In 2004, Schoen introduced Pinchuk to Hillary Clinton.[8] Between September 2011 and November 2012, Sochen arranged nearly a dozen meetings between Pinchuk and senior State Department officials, including
Melanne Verveer.
[8] Emails released by
Judicial Watch and obtained through
FOIA requests showed that Pinchuk had been invited to dine at Hillary Clinton's home during her tenure at the State department, despite her spokesman's previous denial that they had met during that time.
[24] In March 2017, former Trump aid Monica Crowley registered as a foreign agent for Pinchuk.
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In 2004, Pinchuk created
Yalta European Strategy (YES) – an international independent organization that is promoting Ukraine joining the
European Union. Its annual summer meeting in Yalta is a Ukraine-EU forum for debate and policy recommendations development. Since the Crimean Crisis of 2014 these meetings have been taking place in Kiev. In September 2013, Pinchuk and
Tony Blair introduced
Hillary Clinton's keynote address to the conference at
Livadia Palace, with
Bill Clinton in attendance.
[8][15] Stefan Fule,
Paul Krugman,
Alexei Kudrin,
Shimon Peres,
Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
Larry Summers and other political and business leaders have attended.
[citation needed] In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at the conference that year in Kiev.[27] Michael Cohen solicited Douglas Schoen for the donation from Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year.
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