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The Kremlin’s Oil Company Has a Man in Trumpland

SELLING LOUTS

The longtime political operative and veteran diplomat is the man some of Russia’s biggest interests turn to for help, and Trump goes to for advice.

Anna Nemtsova
Michael Weiss 

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