https://www.russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/07/senator-denies-russian-report-on-magnitskiy-case-based-on-official-inquiry/ - Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/07/senator-denies-russian-report-on-magnitskiy-case-based-on-official-inquiry/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:17:27 +0000 http://https://russian-untouchables.com/eng//?p=7283#comment-589 […] On the trip, Mr Malkin and three other Russ­ian sen­a­tors met with U.S. con­gress­men to lobby against the pass­ing of the Mag­nit­sky Act, a piece of leg­is­la­tion which would impose U.S. visa bans and asset freezes on cor­rupt offi­cials and human rights abusers. In their meet­ings, Vitaly Malkin and his Fed­er­a­tion Coun­cil col­leagues cir­cu­lated a report defam­ing Sergei Mag­nit­sky, which they claimed was the result of an offi­cial “par­lia­men­tary inves­ti­ga­tion”. The man­date of the Malkin’s report was imme­di­ately put into ques­tion by Mikhail Margelov, head of the Fed­er­a­tion Council’s For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee, who stated that it was not “a par­lia­men­tary inves­ti­ga­tion in the accepted mean­ing of the word” (see fur­ther Inter­fax news agency http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/07/senator-denies-russian-report-on-magnitskiy-case-based-o…). […]

]]> https://www.russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/07/senator-denies-russian-report-on-magnitskiy-case-based-on-official-inquiry/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:17:26 +0000 http://https://russian-untouchables.com/eng//?p=7283#comment-588 […] On the trip, Mr Malkin and three other Russ­ian sen­a­tors met with U.S. con­gress­men to lobby against the pass­ing of the Mag­nit­sky Act, a piece of leg­is­la­tion which would impose U.S. visa bans and asset freezes on cor­rupt offi­cials and human rights abusers. In their meet­ings, Vitaly Malkin and his Fed­er­a­tion Coun­cil col­leagues cir­cu­lated a report defam­ing Sergei Mag­nit­sky, which they claimed was the result of an offi­cial “par­lia­men­tary inves­ti­ga­tion”. The man­date of the Malkin’s report was imme­di­ately put into ques­tion by Mikhail Margelov, head of the Fed­er­a­tion Council’s For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee, who stated that it was not “a par­lia­men­tary inves­ti­ga­tion in the accepted mean­ing of the word” (see fur­ther Inter­fax news agency http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/07/senator-denies-russian-report-on-magnitskiy-case-based-o…). […]

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