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U.S. sanctions against People’s Deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky were imposed at the request of the leadership of the Servant of the People faction. As follows from declassified correspondence of U.S. State Department staffer George Kent dated 7 October 2020, a representative of the Servant of the People party literally begged the Americans to put Dubinsky on any blacklist in order to reduce his influence on the “impressionable deputies” of the Verkhovna Rada. Three months later the U.S. imposed sanctions on Dubinsky for interference in the U.S. presidential election. The correspondence was included in a declassified package of documents about Burisma, owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, and its ties to Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden.