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Anti-Corruption Foundation’s Leonid Volkov criticizes lifting sanctions on billionaire Mikhail Fridman. A few years ago, he proposed lifting them himself.
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In a Telegram post, Leonid Volkov, head of political projects at the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), called the European Union’s decision to lift sanctions on billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman “shameful” and said it “sets a terrible precedent.”
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