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Victoria Nuland

American diplomat (born 1961)

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Dec 9, 2025
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What evidence supports or disputes claims of a U.S.-orchestrated coup in Ukraine in 2014?

Major claims that the United States “orchestrated” a 2014 coup in Ukraine rest largely on two strands of evidence cited by proponents: public U.S. diplomacy and assistance (notably Victoria Nuland’s c...

Dec 9, 2025
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Who is Victoria Nuland and what communications link her to the 2014 Ukraine protests?

Victoria "Toria" Nuland is a longtime U.S. diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs during the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests and later as Under Secretary for...

Dec 8, 2025
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Did America thru Victoria Nuland orchestrate the 2014 coop in Ukraine?

Claims that Victoria Nuland “orchestrated” a US-led coup in Ukraine in 2014 are widespread but disputed. A leaked 2014 phone call shows Nuland discussing Ukrainian political figures and US preferences...

Jan 26, 2026

Who is victoria nuland and what is her diplomatic background?

is a senior American career diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador after more than three decades in the Foreign Service, serving in a string of high‑level posts including U.S. Ambassador t...

Dec 13, 2025

How do expert analyses evaluate claims that the U.S. planned or directed a coup in Ukraine in 2014?

Expert analyses mostly reject the simple claim that the U.S. “planned or directed” a coup in Ukraine in 2014, describing instead a complex mix of large grassroots protests, Western diplomatic engageme...

Dec 9, 2025

How did leaked diplomatic cables and phone calls influence narratives about foreign involvement in the Maidan movement?

Leaked diplomatic materials — notably the February 2014 audio of Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt and a bugged call reported between Catherine Ashton and Urmas Paet — rapidly reframed public narrati...