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Tall, wiry, and bespectacled Serhiy Leshchenko, instantly recognizable on the streets and in the cafes of Kyiv, can barely take ten steps in public without being stopped for a handshake or a selfie. Leshchenko was the whistleblower before the whistleblower (the anonymous informant who kicked off the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump): a Ukrainian journalist and former member of Parliament who put Ukraine on the U.S. political map in August 2016, when he disclosed the existence of a secret “black ledger” showing cash payments totaling over $12 million from the ruling party of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovych to Paul Manafort.

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