MOSCOW - Yevgeny Bushmin tried to make his nation more American. Now he can’t believe he’s been slapped with U.S. sanctions. The Russian lawmaker’s faith in U.S.-style capitalism and democracy drove him into politics in the chaotic years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. But after he helped lead legislators in a March vote that granted President Vladimir Putin the power to invade Ukraine, the United States put Bushmin on its sanctions list.
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Washington Post: A top Russian official who once admired the US is now on a sanctions list
Evgeniy Bushmin Bushmin is one of several former admirers of America on the list of 45 people targeted by U.S. sanctions.
