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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 03:47 AM Jul 2018

Vladimir Putin has left no doubt: The biggest threat to his regime is the Magnitsky Act




FROM WAPO ARTICLE:

What’s really behind Putin’s obsession with the Magnitsky Act

By Vladimir Kara-Murza
July 20, 2018 at 11:33 AM

SNIP

Volumes of research, hours of expert testimony and countless policy recommendations have been dedicated to finding effective Western approaches to Putin’s 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 Trump’s side in Helsinki.


After the Trump-Putin meeting, the Russian Prosecutor-General’s 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 d’être — 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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/07/20/whats-really-behind-putins-obsession-with-the-magnitsky-act/?utm_term=.3a550f7869cb&__twitter_impression=true





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Vladimir Putin has left no doubt: The biggest threat to his regime is the Magnitsky Act (Original Post) Wwcd Jul 2018 OP
That what I've felt for a long time. Kablooie Jul 2018 #1
That's it exactly. Magnitsky sanctions keep the flow of ill gained money from moving Wwcd Jul 2018 #3
Article's point is accurate & worth remembering. Look at tRump's actions w regard to it. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #2
Great post and it implies a strategy for collapsing the TrumPutin Regime. lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #4

Kablooie

(18,571 posts)
1. That what I've felt for a long time.
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 04:22 AM
Jul 2018

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)
3. That's it exactly. Magnitsky sanctions keep the flow of ill gained money from moving
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 10:51 AM
Jul 2018

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.
The most Dangerous Man in the World




~ Semion Moglilevich is Vladimer Putin's mob boss.

Trump, Putin and the mob. Part 6:
Trump, Felix Sater and their ties to mafia Don Semion Mogilevich

https://medium.com/@JamesFourM/trump-putin-and-the-mob-part-6-trump-felix-sater-and-their-ties-to-mafia-don-semion-mogilevich-34d4a5a83d72
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