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Russia is engaging in aggressive and destabilizing actions that are threatening the rules-based international order, Samantha Power said on Jan. 17 in her last major speech as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

In a blistering and detailed critique of Russia’s foreign and military policies, Power also called for maintaining U.S. sanctions on Moscow and supporting the NATO alliance, which U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has criticized.

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