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Western New York representatives in the New York State Legislature are urging Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state pension fund from any Russian-owned businesses or those who do business with that nation. State Senators Tim Kennedy and Sean Ryan, and Assemblymembers Bill Conrad and Jon Rivera, joined representatives of the local Ukrainian-American community inside the Ukrainian-American Civic Center in Buffalo to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and call on the state to increase its economic pressure on the Russian Federation.