Russians Need To Respect Themselves
Teemu Matinpuro, executive director of the Finnish Peace Committee, and Kerkko Paananen, information secretary of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum (FINROSFORUM), gave an interview to Lyudmila Mamina, editor-in-chief of Kasparov.Ru, about the Finnish edition of Novaya Gazeta, the attitude of Finnish society to Anna Politkovskaya, the war in Chechnya, and the current political situation in Russia. Below, an edited translation of the interview.
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Ask Russians, Not Expats, Their Opinions of Putin
In response to “Smiles Greet the Status Quo at FIAC,” an article by Howard Amos on Oct. 18.
Editor,
This article mentioned Ernst & Young CEO James Turley’s “support” on behalf of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency.
As a foreign citizen working the past 18 years in Russia, including several years at Ernst & Young’s Moscow office, I can state with firm certainty that Turley and those other FIAC company leaders present clearly did not bother to ask the sentiments of their own Russian employees as to how they feel about their future — or that of their children — concerning the prospect of another 12 years of Putin.
I am also confident that neither the families of lawyer Sergey Magnitsky nor the one in every six Russian businesspeople who make up 30 percent of the country’s prisoners — the vast majority of whom are incarcerated on fabricated charges — sympathize with Turley’s political sentiments.
We should ask Russians about how they view the political future of their country. Unlike Turley, the locals have no embassy to run to and no airplane they can just hop on and leave.
As for Turley’s comments, let’s caveat them as “not in my name.” быстрые займы на карту онлайн займ https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php займ срочно без отказов и проверок
Alexeyeva ‘moderately optimistic’ about investigators’ statement over Magnitsky inquest
Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) Lyudmila Alexeyeva has welcomed a statement by the Russian Investigative Committee that it might extend the list persons suspected in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky while in custody.
“I am being moderately optimistic about it,” she told Interfax on Tuesday.
“Promising does not mean doing,” she added.
On Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee announced that the main criminal inquiry into Magnitsky’s death is not over yet and, if new suspects emerge, they will be prosecuted.
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Canada Considers ‘Magnitsky List’ Ban
The diplomatic fallout from the prison death of Sergei Magnitsky has spread to Canada, where a bill has been floated to create another “Magnitsky list” of Russian officials barred from entering the country, similar to that already in place in the United States.
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Magnitsky Doctors’ Case Ready
The Investigative Committee said Tuesday that it has completed its probe into two prison medics charged in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
The investigation will continue and others may be charged, but the case against the medics — widely considered minor players in Magnitsky death — was ready to proceed, the committee said in a statement on its web site.
Larisa Litvinova, a doctor at Moscow’s Butyrskaya pretrial prison, was charged in August with involuntary manslaughter, punishable by up to three years in prison. Her superior, Dmitry Kratov, faces up to five years on negligence charges.
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Irwin Cotler introduces legislation to condemn corruption and impunity in Russia in the case and death of Sergei Magnitsky
COTLER INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO CONDEMN CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY IN RUSSIA IN THE CASE AND DEATH OF SERGEI MAGNITSKY
BILL CALLS FOR CANADIAN SANCTIONS TO HOLD RUSSIAN OFFICIALS TO ACCOUNT IN INTERNATIONAL CAUSE CÉLÈBRE
Ottawa – Liberal Justice and Human Rights Critic, Irwin Cotler, has introduced Bill C-339, An Act to condemn corruption and impunity in Russia in the case and death of Sergei Magnitsky, which has emerged as an international cause célèbre.
Said Cotler, “The tragic torture and death in detention of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered the largest international criminal conspiracy and tax fraud in Russian history and paid for it with his life, is a looking glass into the pervasive culture of corruption and impunity implicating senior government officials in Russia today.”
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Canadian lawmaker calls for Russia visa blacklist
A Canadian lawmaker on Monday urged the Canadian government to issue a blacklist of Russian officials linked to the death of a young lawyer.
Sergei Magnitsky died of untreated heart condition and pancreatitis in an isolation cell in November 2009.
The 37-year-old lawyer’s death after 11 months in a Moscow jail sparked global outrage and came to symbolize problems in the Russian judicial system.
In September, his mother Natalia Magnitskaya alleged that the death of her son was not caused by negligence but was a premeditated murder brought on by months of torture to keep him silent.
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Kasparov: “How I ‘Called’ for War on Russia”
Several days ago I spoke at a conference in Washington on the subject of the reset in relations between Russia and the US organized by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which traditionally represents the interests of the Republican Party. The fact that the main presenter was Speaker of the House of Representatives and Republican John Boehner shows how seriously the Republican Party is going to look at this issue during the upcoming electoral cycle. And there is nothing shocking about this. Every other foreign policy issue, whether it’s Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq, is linked in one way or another with the actions of the Bush administration, while the idea for the reset in relations with Russia and the bets that were hedged on Medvedev – or, more specifically, on a split within the tandem – was thought up and materialized by the Obama administration. Putin’s imminent return to the post of president makes obvious the failure of Obama’s attempt to support “liberal modernizers” in the Kremlin, which the Republicans will undoubtedly remind him of before the next election.
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Canadian Parliament considers bill to create ‘Magnitsky blacklist’
RIA Novosti
The Canadian Parliament is considering a bill to make the so-called Magnitsky List, which blacklists persons allegedly linked to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from entering Canada, the Parliament said on its website.
Magnitsky was arrested and jailed without trial in November 2008, and died in police custody a year later after being denied medical care. The 37-year-old lawyer was working for Hermitage Capital Management, a British-based investment fund, when he accused tax and police officials of carrying out a $230-million tax scam.
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To learn more about what happened to Sergei Magnitsky please read below
- Sergei Magnitsky
- Why was Sergei Magnitsky arrested?
- Sergei Magnitsky’s torture and death in prison
- President’s investigation sabotaged and going nowhere
- The corrupt officers attempt to arrest 8 lawyers
- Past crimes committed by the same corrupt officers
- Petitions requesting a real investigation into Magnitsky's death
- Worldwide reaction, calls to punish those responsible for corruption and murder
- Complaints against Lt.Col. Kuznetsov
- Complaints against Major Karpov
- Cover up
- Press about Magnitsky
- Bloggers about Magnitsky
- Corrupt officers:
- Sign petition
- Citizen investigator
- Join Justice for Magnitsky group on Facebook
- Contact us
- Sergei Magnitsky
