The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today and to the witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current state of the u. S. Russia relationship and the strategy to deal with the Russian Federation. Its timely to assess the relationship with russia and as weve recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, solidarity, selection, victory in poland and the baltic demonstrations among others. Many former soviet states had become prosperous democracies with memberships in nato and the eu. Mr. Putin has taken russia down a much darker path. Today Many Russians suffer with oligarchs enriching themselves to control the major industries. Russia rates its elections to ensure onlensure a week from und politician speak the cut. Russia is targeted and expelled humanitarian organizations and three Media Outlets labeling them as foreign agents. The russian people are in humanity imprisoned a
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Clerk oh, supervisor brown, you wanted to comment on . Supervisor brown no. I just wanted to thank supervisor ronen for bringing this through in november because i know it was awareness Indigenous People month, that it was really important to bring this forward to start the process. Were just at the beginning, but i also want to thank supervisor mandelman because this is a shared district line, and its going to be really important for us to get this right. I know the you know, the census say were not even 1 in this city, but you have to realize these people, and especially the American Indian people, they dont take the census test, sign off on the census because a lot of people that are federally recognized dont feel that they need to. And this is something that we really have to look at. And you also have to look at even though its been 500 years resistance over 500 years resistance, that there are people that have had to move out of San Francisco but theyre still part of this communi