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US Think Tank Takes Heat for Hosting Putin-Linked Oligarchs


A dozen prominent anti-Kremlin thinkers and activists have published an open letter condemning a major Washington research organization for hosting an off-the-record round-table dinner for two oligarchs listed on a U.S. Treasury-issued registry of 210 wealthy Russians identified as close to President Vladimir Putin.

The Atlantic Council, which hosted Pyotr Aven and Mikhail Fridman, principals of the U.S.-sanctioned Alfa Group, published the condemnatory letter on its website before the private dinner Monday, which was internally billed as “an outlook for the Russian economy in an era of escalating sanctions.”

The open letter criticizing the Atlantic Council, co-signed by major Kremlin detractors such …read more

Source: Voice of America

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