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	<p>The State Department will also acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project (Nord Stream 2 AG) and its CEO (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) are engaged in sanctionable activities.</p>
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	<p>However, the State Department will waive the applications of those sanctions, citing U.S. national interests.</p>
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	<p>This planned move seems at odds with Secretary of State Antony Blinken