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 Billionaire Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash was unheard of by most Americans until the conflict between Russia and Ukraine erupted, highlighting the two counties’ important natural gas trade and the shadowy characters that keep its pipelines flowing. But as he and other middlemen have come under more public scrutiny in recent months, they may lost the political capital to negotiate deals.

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