Methods and relationship map
The overseas network behind the Fishback questions
These documented relationships and political communications roles provide the background for asking what methods Pushaw later used while advising Fishback in Florida.
Pushaw
FARA registrant; NLI founder/director lead; Georgia/Ukraine social history partly deleted.
Saakashvili
Foreign principal in FARA #7122; former Georgian president; Ukraine address/context in filing.
Zelenskyy
Restored Saakashvili's Ukrainian citizenship and appointed him to a Ukrainian government reform role in May 2020.
New Leaders Initiative
Georgia civil-society NGO lead; funding and registry details still need deeper pull.
Open Society
Major Georgia civil-society footprint operating through Open Society Georgia Foundation since 1994.
Documented Ukraine chain
Pushaw worked for a Zelenskyy-appointed official and supported the appointment publicly.
What the records establish
Zelenskyy appointed Saakashvili chairman of the Executive Committee of Ukraine's National Reform Council on May 7, 2020. Pushaw reported continuing to work for Saakashvili through November 2020.
Pushaw also pitched a pro-Zelenskyy Saakashvili op-ed in 2019 and published her own favorable article after the 2020 appointment. The latter appears in her DOJ informational-materials submission.
Pushaw's FARA filing states that her objective was to increase Saakashvili's international profile for a future return to Georgian politics.
