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The Dangers of Working in Russia Under the Obama Administration
In 2012 and 2013, under Mr. Putin, the Russians changed their espionage law to even make it easier to arrest people on flimsy charges. This has been a big problem for a lot of NGOs. The United States' AID has left the country because of this. And yet in the waning years of the Obama administration, when tensions were very high, we did not have a wave of arrests.