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Baitball Blogger

(46,828 posts) Fri Jul 14, 2017, 05:03 PM Jul 2017

So the Russian lawyer wanted to talk about U.S. adoptions.

What was everybody else offering?

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So the Russian lawyer wanted to talk about U.S. adoptions. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jul 2017 OP

It was about removing sanctions frazzled Jul 2017 #1

To lift the sanctions that occasioned the Russian block to US adoptions. cyclonefence Jul 2017 #2

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

1. It was about removing sanctions

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Fri Jul 14, 2017, 05:04 PM

Jul 2017

on oligarchs. Sanctions gone, adoptions resume. So it was not about adoptions, it was about sanctions to be lifted.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

2. To lift the sanctions that occasioned the Russian block to US adoptions.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jul 14, 2017, 05:05 PM

Jul 2017

Putin put an end to adoptions from Russia to the US in response to Obama's sanctions. "Talking about adoptions" = talking about sanctions.

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