Devos family, major GOP donor, owns AMWAY. One of Amway's biggest markets: Russia.
No wonder DT made totally unqualified Betsy DeVos the Education Secretary.
And no wonder the AMWAY owners are pushing for the end to sanctions on Russia. It's impacting their profits.
From Feb 2013:
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2013/02/amways_russian_market_growing.html
ADA, MI - Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel launched their company Amway, short for the American Way, during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was considered the biggest threat to democracy and capitalism.
A half-century later, Russia is one of the Ada-based company's biggest and most promising markets.
Russia not only ended 2012 as one of the direct-selling giant’s top 10 markets but was the only country on the list to also make Amway's list of countries with double digit growth last year, the company shared when it reported that 2012 record revenues for parent company Alticor of $11.3 billion. The privately-held direct-selling giant doesn’t disclose revenues by market.
Amway has been open for business in the former communist powerhouse less than a decade. Since the beginning, the Eastern European country has been one of Amway’s fastest growing markets.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop
THE DEVOSES sit alongside the Kochs, the Bradleys, and the Coorses as founding families of the modern conservative movement. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes—think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. They have helped fund nearly every prominent Republican running for national office and underwritten a laundry list of conservative campaigns on issues ranging from charter schools and vouchers to anti-gay-marriage and anti-tax ballot measures. "There's not a Republican president or presidential candidate in the last 50 years who hasn't known the DeVoses," says Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
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What a surprise! 
Does Amway sell pencils? She was haaving trouble finding pencils on her first day of work.