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Other participants on the panel included Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia-based American activist Jackson Hinkle, and former British MP George Galloway. The conference was co-organized by Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin and attended by American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and economist Jeffrey Sachs, among others.
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