‘Magnitsky list’ won’t undermine Russia-US relations, Lavrov says
The so-called Magnitsky list that bars entry to the U.S. for Russian officials allegedly involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, will not undermine relations between the two countries, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
The relations established by the Obama and Medvedev administrations are strong enough to withstand “various attempts to ruin them,” Lavrov told three Russian radio stations.
“I am sure, that the ‘Magnitsky list’… won’t undermine the foundations of Russia-US relations,” he said.
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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Why Some Russians Need the West’s Help
“The West will help us.”
Ostap Bender’s famous phrase from Ilf and Petrov’s “The 12 Chairs” may have been on Konstantin Fetisov’s mind when he met with Michael Posner — U.S. assistant secretary of state for the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor — in the Moscow region a week ago.
Fetisov is a leader of the movement opposing the construction of the Kremlin-supported $8 billion Moscow-St. Petersburg highway that will travel through the Khimki forest. He was beaten badly by unidentified assailants last November, leaving him with impaired speech and memory loss.
During his meeting with Fetisov, Posner said the United States needs to “redouble” its efforts to press Russia on protecting human rights.
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Court Orders Release Of Ill Businesswoman
A gravely ill businesswoman held in pretrial detention in Moscow may be released within days after the city court ruled on Wednesday that her arrest had been extended illegally.
Although the decision is in line with Kremlin-backed laws easing the terms for the release of ill suspects accused of economic crimes, it came after months of legal squabbles.
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday ordered the Tverskoi District Court to revise its Oct. 4 decision to keep Natalya Gulevich in detention until Nov. 7, her lawyer told The Moscow Times.
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Oxford Union Debate: “What Happens in Russia Cannot Just Stay in Russia”
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Oxford Students Agree with Pavel Khodorkovsky that “What Happens in Russia Cannot Just Stay in Russia”
On October 18th, at one of the world’s most famous debating societies, the Oxford Union, a packed chamber debated the motion “This House Believes That What Happens in Russia Stays in Russia”
Speaking on the proposition were: Edward Hicks a student at Oxford’s St Anne’s college, The Independent’s Foreign Correspondent Mary Dejevsky, Chief Executive of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, Stephen Dalziel and a rather reluctant Sir Tony Brenton, former UK Ambassador to Russia.
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Netherlands expects punishment for people behind Magnitsky’s death
The Netherlands hopes that people implicated in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will be punished, the country’s ambassador in Moscow said.
Magnitsky was arrested in November 2008 on tax evasion charges shortly after alleging that law enforcement officials and others were involved in a $230 million tax scam. The 37-year-old Magnitsky died a year later in Moscow’s notorious Butyrka prison after being denied medical care.
Larisa Litvinova, chief doctor at the Butyrka prison, and the jail’s deputy chief Dmitry Kratov, were charged with “causing death through negligence.” President Medvedev’s human rights council said two different officials – senior Interior Ministry investigator Oleg Silchenko and Butyrka chief Ivan Prokopenko – were also at fault.
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Navalny Fined Over Magnitsky Allegations
Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was convicted on Monday of slander in a lawsuit filed against him by a businessman linked to the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court ordered Navalny to pay a fine of 100,000 rubles ($3,200) and disavow several statements claiming that Vladlen Stepanov was a beneficiary of fraudulent tax returns that Magnitsky was trying to expose, Navalny wrote on his Twitter.
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Support Magnitsky Act
Why this is Important
This act directly imposes sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, and death in prison of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who discovered a falsified $ 230 millions tax refund paid against the law to criminals.
The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions without waiting for the debate in Congress to the bill to ban people involved into “Sergey’s Magnitsky list” to enter the U.S. and the arrest of their accounts in U.S. banks. This action, however, might stop Congress to pass this bill or will not allow providing more stringent sanctions against a larger number of Russian officials. The administration sees no need to take this additional law.
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U.S. reset with Russia at new stage as officials meet with human rights activists
Michael Posner got up at 4 a.m. in Moscow, bound for this Volga River city where he began filling a yellow spiral notebook with stories of newspapers silenced, human rights advocates threatened and political parties repressed as the United States prepares for a new chapter in its relations with Russia.
Call it reset 2.0.
Posner, U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, describes the task as moving decisively to another level in an area where the United States has not made visible progress.
On a trip to Russia that began Monday and ended Saturday, Posner visited Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan, asking activists and opposition politicians what the United States could or should be doing to better support their efforts. He listened, took notes, asked questions and answered even more.
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Impunity and attacks silence Russian journalists
Overview
The photograph of a bespectacled, grey-haired woman, her head resting in her hands has become iconic to human rights campaigners worldwide. A symbol of the risks campaigning journalists in Russia face. Five years ago, Anna Politkovskaya – an investigative journalist who wrote highly critical reports of Russian military actions in Chechnya and of the Kremlin – was gunned down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block. The killing drew worldwide attention to violence against journalists in Russia and raised widespread suspicions that public officials were responsible for ordering the murder.
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Five years ago, Anna Politkovskaya – an investigative journalist who wrote highly critical reports of Russian military actions in Chechnya and of the Kremlin – was gunned down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block.
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- 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
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