Vladimir Putin has left no doubt: The biggest threat to his regime is the Magnitsky Act
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FROM WAPO ARTICLE:
Whats really behind Putins obsession with the Magnitsky Act
By Vladimir Kara-Murza
July 20, 2018 at 11:33 AM
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Volumes of research, hours of expert testimony and countless policy recommendations have been dedicated to finding effective Western approaches to Putins regime.
The clearest and the most convincing answer was provided, time and again, by the Putin regime itself. *It was the Magnitsky Act that Putin tasked his foreign ministry with trying to stop;
*it was the Magnitsky Act that was openly tied to the ban on child adoptions;
*it was the Magnitsky Act that was the subject of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-linked lawyer;
*it is advocating for the Magnitsky Act that may soon land any Russian citizen in prison.
*It was the Magnitsky Act that Putin named as the biggest threat to his regime as he stood by Trumps side in Helsinki.
After the Trump-Putin meeting, the Russian Prosecutor-Generals Office released the names of U.S. citizens it wants to question as supposed associates of Browder.
The list leaves no doubt as to the nature of the crime. It includes Michael McFaul, senior director for Russia policy at the Obama White House and later U.S. Ambassador in Moscow who oversaw the compiling of memos to the State Department on the investigation in the Magnitsky case. It includes David Kramer, former assistant secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, who, as president of Freedom House between 2010 and 2014, was one of the most effective advocates for the Magnitsky Act.
Perhaps most tellingly, it includes Kyle Parker, now chief of staff at the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, who, as the lead Russia staffer at the commission, wrote the bill that subsequently became the Magnitsky Act.
Vladimir Putin has left no doubt: The biggest threat to his regime is the Magnitsky Act, which stops its beneficiaries from doing what has long become their raison dêtre stealing in Russia and spending in the West.
It is time for more Western nations to adopt this law and for the six countries that already have it to implement it with vigor and resolve.
MAGNITSKY ACT: The Biggest Threat To Putin's Regime
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Kablooie
(18,571 posts)The Russian oligarchs put pressure on Putin to get rid of the sanctions that locks billions of dollars away from them.
Putin installed his puppet president to do that.
Trump failed miserably as the sanctions remain in place and were even increased.
This new love fest between them has the goal of convincing Republicans that Russia isn't the enemy so they will lift the sanctions.
If it fails, after Putin struts around the US with Trumps head crammed in his butt, he may decide that new tactics will be necessary.
Let's hope he learns that Trump is actually a liability and destroys him.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)to Putin's mob bosses.
Semion Moglilevich
You are so correct in your statement.
"The Russian oligarchs put pressure on Putin to get rid of the sanctions that locks billions of dollars away from them."
~ Semion Moglilevich is Vladimer Putin's mob boss.
Semion Moglilevich.
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~ Semion Moglilevich is Vladimer Putin's mob boss.
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