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I believe Lavrov is Sergey Lavrov Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov
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This is a picture of Nancy Pelosi with Russians.
And HARK! Look what we find:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280002/Now-Trump-goes-Pelosi-lying-Russia.html
"NOW TRUMP DEMANDS AN 'INVESTIGATION' OF PELOSI FOR 'LYING' AFTER PHOTO REVEALS SHE MET THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TOO - AFTER SAYING SHE HADN'T HOURS BEFORE"
UPDATED: 03:27 EST, 4 March 2017
"...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared to give a gift to the Trump White House, which has been sent reeling by reports of Trump's Russia ties, when she fielded a question about at a Politico interview Friday about whether she had ever met the current Russian ambassador, Sergey Kisliak.
On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any investigations involving the presidential election after it was revealed he twice met the ambassador during the campaign.
'Not with this Russian ambassador, no,' was Pelosi's response.
Within hours, a photo surfaced showing Pelosi seated around the same table as the peripatetic ambassador.
It was during a 2010 meeting in the Capitol, where the ambassador accompanied then-president Dmitri Medvedev, who was considered a modernizer in between President Vladimir Putin's two stints in power.
She was accompanied by then-House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland. ALSO ATTENDING WAS SERGEY LAVROV, WHO IS RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER...."