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| Rinat Akhmetov |
DCI Group is working for SCM Consulting to run a PA and media campaign to highlight Russia’s theft of grain, minerals and steel in Ukraine.
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest person and a former member of parliament, launched System Capital Management and serves as its president.
SCM’s properties include the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, which was overrun by Russian forces on May 20 following fierce resistance by Ukrainian soldiers.
Akhmetov has pledged to use his fortune to help rebuild Ukraine’s shattered economy.
DCI Group is helmed by Republican operatives Doug Goodyear, Justin Peterson and Brian McCabe.
SCM hired Qorvis Communications in May.
Mercury has landed a $900K one-year pact to represent Gecamines, the cobalt and copper mining giant that is owned by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications network, which suffered a massive Russian cyberattack in December, has hired FTI Government Affairs for representation in Washington.
Zeno Group has signed a one-year contract to provide PR strategy and counsel to the Singapore e-commerce platform of China’s Alibaba Group, the multinational retail, internet and technology behemoth.
Edelman has picked up an additional $500K worth of work to provide COP28 press office support for Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company-Masdar.
Invariant is providing DC representation to Arm Holdings, the British semiconductor design company that completed a blockbuster $5B IPO on the NASDAQ on Sept. 14.
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Jun. 29, 2022, by Joe Honick
All this hiring of PR and other companies for work in Ukraine is fascinating, as if the country now increasingly in shambles, death and terror will finally emerge a survivor if not a victor, something we all hope...all, that is, except for Rupe Murdoch's alleged NEWS operations. It would seem and be more seemly were all these new consultants make the heroic efforts of Joe Biden a more prominent part of their efforts. Without Biden's commitment and energetic efforts with UN and other nations, there would have been a lot fewer weapons and other help.