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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department has eased some financial sanctions imposed on Russia’s lead domestic security agency, a move experts said appeared to be aimed at helping U.S. technology companies.

The directive, issued on Feb. 2 by the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, comes as the agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), is under close scrutiny for its alleged interference in last year’s U.S. presidential election.

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