We might be a small country, but we can’t allow Russia to bully us over adoptions
THE Government should strongly resist Russian threats to scupper an adoption agreement between Ireland and Russia if we support sanctions against Russian officials connected with the death of a Moscow-based lawyer. The same goes for Russian warnings that trade links between Ireland and this increasingly mafia state could also be jeopardised.
The Russian authorities are trying to stop Ireland from using its current presidency of the Council of the European Union to push for the implementation of EU-wide sanctions against Russian officials suspected of being involved in the death of the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. The exploitation of orphaned Russian children as blackmailing bait shows how immoral the Putin regime is.
A capitulation to this kind of blackmail would amount to surrendering to a regime that pays little heed to democratic norms. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has receded into a Stalinist-like dictatorship where human rights, freedom of expression, media plurality and political diversity have been severely eroded.
The background to this furore centres on a plucky Russian lawyer called Sergei Magnitsky. He ended up behind bars in 2008 after he uncovered what he claimed was systematic and large-scale corruption and fraud carried out by Russian officials and police officers. When Mr Magnitsky reported the theft he was arrested himself and accused of tax evasion.
Sergei Magnitsky died in a pretrial detention centre in Moscow in November 2009. The 37-year-old father of two had been held, without trial, for 358 days. According to his family and friends he died from injuries and medical problems sustained after repeated abuse and torture while in detention.
Mr Magnitsky wrote regular complaints about his conditions in prison. They make for grim reading. He complained about being confined to a cell that “completely flooded with excrement from a malfunctioning sewage system”. He wrote about being deprived of food, water and toilet access. He was beaten and denied critical medical attention when his health began to fail because of the horrendous conditions he was forced to endure.
Mr Magnitsky died as a result of acute pancreatitis, which he contracted in prison. He was denied proper medical attention.
Amnesty International said his last days “tell a story of agony and despair”. Instead of giving him the urgent medical care he required, his captors placed him in a solitary cell “where he was handcuffed and beaten with rubber batons”.
The Russian authorities have spuriously claimed that the lawyer died from a heart condition. Mr Magnitsky’s family, friends and colleagues, along with respected human rights groups, refute those allegations.
One of Mr Magnitsky’s most ardent supporters is a wealthy American called Bill Browder, for whom Sergei worked in Moscow. Mr Browder runs the London-based investment company Hermitage Capital. Mr Browder used to run one of the largest investment firms in Moscow, but he was deported from Russia after he exposed corrupt practices. Mr Browder insists the accusations against his company and Mr Magnitsky are false and that the lawyer was tortured to death in prison.
The Magnitsky case has gathered momentum internationally, with the late lawyer becoming a symbol of the struggle against the increasingly tyrannical Putin regime.
Last December, the US Congress backed the Magnitsky Act, which imposes travel sanctions and asset freezes on Russian officials suspected of being involved in Mr Magnitsky’s death.
The Russians retaliated by introducing their own blacklist against US officials and they also banned Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
The European Parliament passed a resolution last October calling for a similar Magnitsky Act to be introduced in all EU states. That’s where Ireland comes into the spotlight. Our current presidency of the EU Council gives us the power to put this on the agenda. But with only two months to go, we have little time left to exploit that opportunity. The Russians are doing their best to intimidate us.
IN MARCH, the Russian Ambassador to Ireland, Maxim Peshkov wrote to Senator Pat Breen, the chairman of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee. The Committee had drawn up a draft motion calling on the Government to use its presidency “to impose EU-wide visa sanctions” against those allegedly involved in Mr Magnitsky’s death.
In Mr Peshkov’s letter, he warned the Committee against going ahead with the motion.
He said that it could have a “negative influence on the negotiations of the Adoption Agreement” between Russia and Ireland and that it would not “enrich bilateral Russian-Irish relations”.
Ireland should not cave into this kind of pressure, especially when it is sanctioned by a repressive regime.We may be a small country struggling economically but that does not mean we should forfeit our beliefs in human rights to appease a deeply sinister regime.
By doing that we turn a blind eye to their treatment of people like Sergei Magnitsky, whose determination to expose corruption cost him his life. займ на карту онлайн hairy girls www.zp-pdl.com https://www.zp-pdl.com hairy woman
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There are so many illegals being tracked by western intelligence agencies that the adoption issue is resolved. As Edward Lucas wrote in the Introduction of Deception, an illegal with a key to every door could be your neighbor pushing a baby stroller. I can confirm this to be true. Every time an Irish couple wants to adopt a child, arrest an illegal with a child of the age they want and give the child to the Irish adopter. After all, to be an illegal on Irish soil is a crime and Ireland can’t have criminals raising children on its soil. All other western democracies should do the same.
I live in Sea Cliff, NY with a land mass of just 1.1 square miles. We have illegals using aliases in abundance where I am to make many international adopters very happy.
Adoption catalog snapshot: Lindsay across the street from me is 8-9 yrs old & will soon need an adopter. Next door there is an infant son & 3-4 yr-old son. They, too, both will soon need adopters. There is an infant with a gender unknown to me 2 houses up my street that also will soon need an adopter.
Many of Sea Cliff’s other streets are as heavily concentrated with illegals as mine is.
The other illegals also have kids. I know around the bend from my street on 8th Ave a paired couple of illegals have young kids…& the same is true on 8th Ave a few houses from that house. Sea Cliff could amply fill a lot of the current worldwide adoption demand. There are 2 adorable blonde tot girls born to illegals I know also to soon need adopters. Really, there is no Russian adoption shortage. Plenty of kids will be becoming available for adoption by couples concerned for their welfare, contrary to the Russian government’s lack of concern for its own orphans.
BTW, I do not work for an intelligence agency to have an inside scoop.I refused to sell a tech company to the Russian government many years ago & it has made me come to know its means & methods as an adversary.
The illegals around me are rapists, sodomizers & murderers.All the harm brought me didn’t result in my death thanks to nutritional supplement science, but once the illegals started doing all done to me to other people with no history with the Russian government to suspect new neighbors & phone cloners the results were more successful in a deadly way. If the US should commit the distasteful act of engaging in a spy swap for the thousands of Russian businessmen & women jailed so Putin & his inner circle of bandits could steal their businesses, perhaps a swapped illegal could be reunited with 1 child for every 1,000,000 Russian orphans freed from bondage in Putin’s torture chambers mistakenly called orphanages? Furthermore, if Putin doesn’t free Rob Levinson & Khorkodovsky, there should be no deal. The Obama Administration walking away from negotiations would be the only right decision since Putin is a terrorist & the US already has in place a policy to never negotiate with terrorists. To this point Putin has only belly ached over the US jailing of Viktor Bout, because as the premier arms dealer to terrorists Bout cut Putin a giant percentage of Bout’s profits. Profiting from arms supplying to terrorists makes Putin a terrorist, too. Since the illegals around me are assassins, they truly should just be executed by the US so that there is never a chance with their return to Russia that they could become repeat offenders anywhere else in the world.
1 final comment: People that practice alternative medicine remember details of what is done to them during illegals rave parties. If thousands of business owners that had their businesses stolen from them by Putin Corp.are freed per illegal trade, then the Obama Administration should proceed. However, if Putin gives the Obama Administration the slightest bit of haggle, the Obama Administration should immediately shutdown negotiations. We have capital punishment in the US. Those already maimed & murdered might no longer have a voice, but I have a very powerful one! Just ask the phone cloners I nailed the last 2 days how badly I publicly humiliated them slicing them in 2 with my words! I am ready to testify against Putin’s illegals at trial as well as later before a sentencing judge, & the details I remember & will be forced to relive before a jury of the illegals’ parties will terminate Putin’s presidency. Vladmir Putin was born in the sewer & never left it.
I had an aunt & 2 grandparents, as well as, 14 pets murdered because Vladmir Putin can’t handle a woman saying the word, “No!” My brother & his girlfriend are one step away from wheel chairs instead of their next jog along Manhattan’s West Side Hwy, because Vladmir Putin can’t handle a woman saying, “No!” Of course, rape & sodomy are about power & control. Contrary to his belief, Putin isn’t a Major Deity & cannot raise the dead. My family is dead! Dead is dead! Putin’s illegals are on US.soil. Their fate is the US’ power & control. They’re facing the death penalty unless Putin swaps thousands of people for the illegals…that’s thousands of lives saved before Putin murders them, too in a penal colony. There are also a lot of business people locked into mental asylums to facilitate the theft of their businesses. They, too, need rescuing in spy swaps, & then won’t recover I’ve free to be productive persons for 1 1/2 yrs.