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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1064092)	4/6/2018 9:17:15 PM
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US sanctions seven Russian oligarchs (including Oleg Deripaska, who has ties to Manafort and Putin), 12 companies connected to them, 17 senior Kremlin officials, a Russian weapons trading company and a Russian bank Manu Raju?Verified account @mkraju From a source re: the new Russia sanctions: “Most of these sanctions obvious, actually, but Deripaska and Vekselberg are a very big deal. Vekselberg's lifetime business partner Blavatnik gave a lot of money to GOP (he's a US citizen) and will be working to get him off...” Natasha Bertrand?Verified account @NatashaBertrand Three Russians sanctioned today—Deripaska, Vekselberg, Torshin—have popped up in the Trump-Russia probe. Two of the Russian government officials sanctioned, Konstantin Kosachev and Oleg Govorun, were named in the Steele dossier. Worth noting: There was speculation that Vekselberg was among the Russian oligarchs stopped by Mueller in recent weeks.