"Last Sunday... Sullivan made a claim that has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers... [regarding] sanctions [on] the company in charge of the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, and its chief executive officer... âWe waived sanctions only on two, and they were not Russian. It was a German individual and a Swiss company,â Sullivan said... Sullivanâs assertion that Nord Stream 2 AG is ânot Russianâ is misleading. Though the company is indeed registered as a Swiss entity, it is wholly owned by Gazprom â an energy company that is majority-owned by the Russian government... a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, told us that Sullivan is âabsolutely correctâ that Nord Stream 2 AG is a Swiss company âas a point of law.â But we still think Sullivan went too far, regardless of his intent, when he said with no additional explanation that the company is ânot Russianâ even though it is, in fact, controlled by Putinâs Kremlin"
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Fact check: White House national security adviser misleadingly describes pipeline company as ânot Russianâ, by Daniel Dale, CNN, June 26, 2021
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Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American political advisor who serves as the United States National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden. He was previously a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and her deputy chief of staff at the Department of State, when she was Secretary of State. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at Yale Law School, and unnam
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