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19
March 2014

Put 32 Russian officials on an EU „Magnitsky list”, urge Foreign Affairs MEPs

European Parliament News

The EU should ban visas and freeze the EU assets of 32 Russian officials involved in the case of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, said the Foreign Affairs Committee in a resolution voted on Tuesday. Mr Magnitsky died in pre-trial detention in 2009, after allegedly having been tortured and deprived of medical care. The resolution names the officials.

The EU Council should draw up a common list of officials believed to be responsible for the torture and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, for its judicial cover-up and for continuing harassment of his mother and widow.

These officials should be banned from travelling in all EU countries and their financial assets held in the EU should be seized, say MEPs in a resolution drafted by Kristiina OJULAND (ALDE, EE) and adopted by 53 votes in favour, 1 against and 2 abstentions.

MEPs refer to independent investigations which found Mr Magnitsky was subjected to „inhumane conditions, deliberate neglect and torture” and point to the need for a joint and firm EU policy towards Russia. They also call on Russia to close the posthumous trial against Mr Magnitsky.

MEPs criticise the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton for failing to place the issue on the Foreign Affairs Council agenda, despite the European Parliament’s October 2012 request that she should do so.

The list

MEPs ask that the following Russian officials, amongst others, be placed on the list:

ALISOV, Igor
DROGANOV, Aleksey
EGOROVA, Olga
GAUS, Alexandra
GERASIMOVA, Anastasia
GRIN, Victor
KARPOV, Pavel
KHIMINA, Yelena
KLYUEV, Dmitry
KOMNOV, Dmitriy
KRIVORUCHKO, Aleksey
KUZNETSOV, Artem
LOGUNOV, Oleg,
MAYOROVA, Yulya
PAVLOV, Andrey
PECHEGIN, Andrey
PODOPRIGOROV, Sergei
PONOMAREV, Konstantin
PROKOPENKO, Ivan Pavlovitch
REZNICHENKO, Mikhail
SAPUNOVA, Marina
SHUPOLOVSKY, Mikhail
SILCHENKO, Oleg
STASHINA, Yelena
STEPANOVA, Olga
STROITELEV, Denis
TAGIEV, Fikhret
TOLCHINSKIY, Dmitry
UKHNALYOVA, Svetlana
URZHUMTSEV, Oleg
VINOGRADOVA, Natalya
VORONIN, Victor

Sixteen of the officials on this list have already been prohibited from entering the United States or using its banking system, by the US “Magnitsky bill”. MEPs suggest 16 additional names of officials which are involved in Mr Magnitsky’s posthumous trial.

At the same time, they stress that the list should be revised regularly and urge Russia to undertake a credible investigation into Mr Magnitsky’s death and bring those responsible to justice.

Next steps

The “Magnitsky list” recommendation has yet to be backed by the full House on April plenary (tbc).

The decision for establishing such a list should be taken by the EU Council.

In chair: Elmar Brok

Procedure: Non-legislative resolution

REF. : 20140317IPR39115
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19
December 2012

Tough Talks Expected At EU-Russia Summit

Moscow Times

President Vladimir Putin will meet with European Union leaders in Brussels on Friday for a pre-Christmas summit, but the mood will hardly be festive.

Disputes involving visas, trade and energy have cast a shadow over EU-Russia relations in recent months, giving both sides tough issues to discuss. More broadly, the Europeans are expected to voice concern about the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent, while Moscow’s stance toward Europe is cooling following its recent foreign-policy emphasis on Eurasia.

“I have no high expectations of this summit,” said George SchЪpflin, a member of the European Parliament from Hungary’s conservative Fidesz party.

Schopflin said feelings among Brussels officials toward Moscow had definitely cooled over the past months.

“There is considerable unease about human rights,” he said by telephone.

In a highly critical motion passed last week, the European Parliament demanded that Russia end “politically motivated persecutions, arrests and detentions” among opposition members.

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11
December 2011

MEPs: protests show Putin has lost respect

EU Observer

Prominent MEPs from Russia’s big neighbours have said the mass anti-Putin protests in Moscow are a wake-up call for EU foreign policy.

Looking ahead to the EU-Russia summit in Brussels on Thursday (15 December), Elmar Brok, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU party, said EU officials should urge the Kremlin to hold proper presidential elections in March.

“It should be made clear they have to look for real elections – to give a fair chance to opposition politicians, to let them run and to make sure they have the means to run, and to let the international community monitor the campaign.”

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