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Putin rejects foreign adoptions by same-sex couples
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow should amend its adoption agreements with countries which have legalised gay marriage.
Asked about the legalisation of same-sex marriage and adoption in France, he said other countries should respect Russia’s “moral standards”.
French President Francois Hollande is expected to sign the bill into law after it was passed by parliament.
Moscow has also linked adoptions to a US black list of its officials.
It has emerged that Russia warned the Irish Republic last month that it could stop the adoption of Russian children by Irish parents if the parliament in Dublin endorsed the Magnitsky Act.
The act places sanctions on 18 Russians allegedly involved in the death of anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison in 2009.
Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian children soon after the US Congress passed the legislation in December.
MPs in several EU countries, including the Irish Republic, are considering following the American example.
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French ‘Magnitsky Act’ Is Gaining Momentum
As French President Francois Hollande met with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, he was under serious pressure to raise the case of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose mysterious death in a Moscow jail led the U.S. to impose sanctions on Russians suspected of human rights violations.
A survey published Thursday by the independent French Institute of Public Opinion (IFPO), one of the country’s most respected pollsters, revealed that 85 percent of French citizens would support their own version of the sanction-imposing Magnitsky Act, which U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law in December.
Bill Browder, the man behind the US Magnitsky Act has been drumming up support in France to pass its own version of the legislation. Shortly after the American law was passed Russia banned U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans in what was widely seen as a tit-for-tat response.
“Now that the U.S. Magnitsky Act has been passed, it’s our major priority to get the Europeans to the same level within a year,” Browder said in an interview in Paris earlier this month.
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France 24 Interview: William Browder, Co-founder and CEO, Hermitage Capital Management
Douglas Herbert speaks to US-born businessman William Browder about his campaign to get a US-style “Magnitsky Act” – blacklisting Russians implicated in severe human rights abuses – passed here in France. The law is named after Browder’s former lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who was found beaten to death in a Russian jail in 2009.
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Magnitsky fund boss brings Russia blacklist campaign to Europe
The investor pushing to blacklist Russian officials implicated in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has brought his campaign to Europe’s capitals, in a move that could have far-reaching implications for their relations with Moscow.
The London-based head of Hermitage Capital Management, William Browder, was in Paris on Monday to push for a French version of the US Magnitsky Act, a December law that blacklisted Russian officials tied to Magnitsky’s prison death.
The law has prompted a crisis in US-Russia ties, with Moscow retaliating by banning US adoptions of Russian orphans.
Ahead of talks with French lawmakers, Browder told AFP he was sure that within a year European capitals would have followed Washington’s lead in imposing sanctions on Russian officials.
“The Russian government tortured and murdered Sergei Magnitsky, our lawyer, after he uncovered a massive corruption scheme,” Browder said.
“The Russian government has taken every step to cover up the involvement of the officials… and then attack the victim. It has become clear to us that we have to get justice outside of Russia.”
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France Enters Magnitsky Fray
France has become the latest Western country to publicly criticize Russia’s investigation into the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pretrial detention in 2009.
“The circumstances of the death of Mr. Magnitsky, who led a courageous fight against corruption and arbitrariness, are a matter of great concern for us,” Foreign Minister Alain Juppe wrote in a letter to French National Assembly Deputy Jack Lang.
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Russia – Death of Sergei Magnitsky (October 25, 2011)
France is very attentively monitoring the investigation conducted by the Russian authorities to clarify the circumstances of Sergei Magnitsky’s death.
Please remember that following the July 2011 report by the “Council for Human Rights and Development of Civil Society,” which reports to the President of the Russian Federation, judicial proceedings were undertaken against several doctors in the Russian prison administration for not providing the necessary medical help to Sergei Magnitsky.
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Sergei Magnitsky, the death that shakes the Kremlin
(Translation from Original French text)
While Russian police recently raided the headquarters of BP in Moscow that Putin seems to have decided to become president of the country, here is the article I published last week in the “Nouvel Observateur” on d ‘a case that caused a stir in Russia.
It was a Muscovite like millions of others. Yet his death – heroic – will perhaps change the course of relations between Russia and the world. Sergei Magnitsky was a modest jurist who, unfortunately for him, discovered the huge embezzlement organized by a group of leading Russian officials. To silence him, he was thrown into prison, where for a year, he was tortured and denied care. He did not give. Despite excruciating pain, he refused to withdraw his testimony against the top brass. And November 16, 2009, it was left to die alone in a filthy cell.
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