Around 2005 Manafort presented Deripaska with a confidential strategic plan to influence politics, news coverage, and business dealings in the United States, Europe, and former Soviet republics with the aim of benefitting Putin's government. Deripaska accepted the plan and signed a $10 million annual contract with Manafort. Soon after, on recommendation from Derispaska, Manafort set off to work in the Ukraine for pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych, who was widely seen as a puppet of Putin.
2005年前后，馬納福特向杰里帕斯卡提交了一份機密戰略計劃，旨在影響美國、歐洲和前蘇聯共和國的政治、新聞報道和商業交易，目的是讓普京政府受益。杰里帕斯卡接受了這一計劃，并與馬納福特簽署了價值1000萬美元的年度合同。不久后，在杰里帕斯卡的建議下，馬納福特前往烏克蘭，為親俄政治家維克托·亞努科維奇工作。亞努科維奇被普遍視為普京的傀儡。
Manafort was charged with "making over" the thuggish Yanukovych's 2006 parliamentary election campaign. Under Manafort's guidance in the 2006 elections Yanukovych became the Prime Minister, and went on to win the presidency in 2010. Manafort had delivered successfully for Putin and as such, lucrative side deals with shadowy individuals connected to Russian organized crime figures started opening up for Manafort. Manafort continued working with President Yanukovych pushing Pro-Kremlin policies internally and on the world stage.
馬納福特被指控“組織了”殘暴的亞努科維奇2006年的議會選舉活動。2006年的選舉中，在馬納福特的指導下，亞努科維奇成為總理，并在2010年贏得總統大選。馬納福特成功地為普京提供了服務，因此，一些有利可圖的私下交易開始為馬納福特打開大門，交易都涉及與俄羅斯有組織犯罪相關的神秘人物。馬納福特繼續與亞努科維奇總統合作，在國內和世界舞臺上推動親克里姆林宮的政策。
In 2011 Manafort authorized a plan called 'black ops' meant to boost Yanukovych's reputation. Some of the strategies proposed included rewriting Wikipedia entries to smear a key opponent of Yanukovych, setting up a fake think tank center in Vienna that would put out favorable views towards Yanukovych, planting false stories in Western media, weaponizing social media that targeted Europeans and Americans, as well as working with right wing US based publisher Breitbart to attack Hillary Clinton.
2011年，馬納福特批準了一項名為“黑色行動”的計劃，旨在提升亞努科維奇的聲譽。提出的一些策略包括改寫維基百科條目以抹黑亞努科維奇的主要競爭對手、在維也納建立一個假智庫中心（該智庫中心將會提出對亞努科維奇有利的觀點）、在西方媒體上植入虛假報道、把針對歐洲人和美國人的社交媒體變得武器化、以及與美國右翼出版商Breitbart合作攻擊希拉里·克林頓。
The Ukrainian public wanted a closer relationship with the European Union yet Yanukovych kept cozying up to the Russian government. In November 2013 the Ukrainian government suspended preparations for signing the Ukraine Association Agreement with the European Union, so that they could seek closer economic relations with Russia. This led to the Euromaidan protests.
烏克蘭民眾希望與歐盟建立更密切的關系，但亞努科維奇卻一直在討好俄羅斯政府。2013年11月，烏克蘭政府暫停了與歐洲聯盟簽署《烏克蘭聯合協議》的準備工作，以便他們能夠尋求與俄羅斯建立更緊密的經濟關系。這導致了烏克蘭親歐盟派的抗議活動。
In February 2014 President Yanukovych fled the country and it was later revealed that Yanukovych fled to Russia with the help of the Russian government. At this point, Manafort had lost his main source of income in Yanukovych.
2014年2月，亞努科維奇總統逃離烏克蘭，后來有消息透露亞努科維奇在俄羅斯政府的幫助下逃往俄羅斯。此時，馬納福特失去了他在亞努科維奇方面的主要收入來源。
Deeply indebted to Russian oligarch Deripaska due to a failed side deal, he joined the Trump campaign in March of 2016 as a conspicuously unpaid volunteer.
由于一樁副業交易的失敗，他深深感激俄羅斯寡頭杰里帕斯卡，2016年3月，他以一名明顯沒有報酬的志愿者身份加入了特朗普的競選團隊。
On June 9th of 2016 Manafort, Donald Trump Jr, and the President's son in law Jared Kushner took a meeting in Trump Tower with Russian operatives who offered 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton.
2016年6月9日，馬納福特、小唐納德·特朗普和總統的女婿賈里德·庫什納在特朗普大廈與提供希拉里·克林頓“丑聞”的俄羅斯特工會面。
The Trump team initially denied having any knowledge of the assistance the Russian government provided but emails later released between Donald Trump Jr and a Russian representative showed that senior officials in the Trump campaign knew the meeting was about receiving information to damage Clinton and her campaign.
特朗普團隊最初否認對俄羅斯政府提供的援助有任何了解，但后來披露的小唐納德·特朗普和一名俄羅斯代表之間的電子郵件顯示，特朗普競選團隊的高級官員知道，這次會面是為了獲取損害克林頓及其競選團隊的信息。
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