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Prairie Gates

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1. Isn't Russia under some sort of sanctions?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 08:08 AM

17 hrs ago

Wouldn't this fool have to get some kind of permission from the State Department to visit St. Petersburg?

The guy building the Ballroom and the Arch is at a Putin event in sanctioned Russia? What. The. Actual. Fuck?

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Isn't Russia under some sort of sanctions? Prairie Gates 17 hrs ago #1

I've read his last name as "Crook". Dave Bowman 17 hrs ago #2

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