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The Hill17 October 2026, 22:19 UTCRussia

President Trump’s new executive order on Friday evening sparked a new wave of bipartisan backlash to his administration’s recent easing of Russian sanctions. The order halted the implementation of new penalties on Russia set to go into effect under a sweeping legislative package signed into law by the president last month. It followed Trump’s controversial...

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