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Last week the U.S. Treasury Department released a list of influential Russians who could face sanctions given their close relationship to the Kremlin. The list was mandated by the Countering America’s Adversaries Though Sanctions Act of 2017 and included 96 wealthy business executives in addition to over a hundred government officials. Host Dan Loney talks with Philip Nichols, Business Ethics Professor at The Wharton School, and Mitchell Orenstein, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss how this could impact US-Russia relations on Knowledge at Wharton.

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