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BGR Government Affairs has landed a one-year $600K contract to provide US government relations counsel to Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The work may include outreach to US government officials, non-government organizations and thought leaders. It also may distribute information materials on behalf of the Greeks.
Greece’s parliament has just elected the conservative government nominee Constantine Tassoulas as president. He will succeed Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Greece’s first female president, in March.
BGR principal Fred Turner leads the Greek account. He was chief of staff to Jersey Senator and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chair Bob Menendez. He also did a stint as chief of staff on the US Commission of Security and Cooperation in Europe (e.g, US Helsinki Commission).
Turner’s supporting cast includes BGR president Erskine Wells; co-heads of the international & trade policy practice Maya Seiden and Lester Munson; and head of the defense & critical technologies practice Dan Greenwood.
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
