Um, if this is the same Vladimir Potanin who purchased Maryland’s election vendor in 2015, I can understand the concern. Per Wikipedia, in January 2018, he appeared on the US Treasury’s “Putin list” of 210 people most closely associated w/ Putin. 1/ https://t.co/qUiTRKkXwK pic.twitter.com/jaUdEnxw75

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