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Washington Times: Russia ought to be named a state sponsor of terror, says US Senator

By Washington Times.

Published July 13, 2018 at 12:39 pm

Visitors walk in the garden outside Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, southern England, on July 7, 2018. The exposure of an apparently random British couple to the same nerve agent used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, in the same part of southwest England, has sent officials scrambling to discover the source of the contamination.

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Senator Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, said on July 12 that he believes Russia is worthy of being designated a state sponsor of terrorism.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Mr. Gardner made the remark during an interview on Fox News conducted ahead of a scheduled one-on-one meeting between President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on July 16.