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Record Bail Set in Magnitsky-Style Case
Seemingly thumbing its nose at Kremlin attempts to ease penalties for suspects of white-collar crime, a Moscow court has agreed to release a seriously ill woman from pretrial detention — if she posts an all-time record bail of $3.3 million by Monday.
The Kremlin did not comment Tuesday, but the Public Chamber said it would seek to have businesswoman Natalya Gulevich, whose kidneys are failing and bladder has stopped functioning, transferred from pretrial detention to a hospital, RIA-Novosti reported.
Gulevich’s supporters compare her to Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who also was accused of white-collar crimes and died in pretrial detention after not receiving adequate medical treatment in November 2009, 11 months after he was detained.
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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
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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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Tall Ship Skips U.S. Port in Snub Linked to Jewish Case
A Russian frigate refused to dock in San Francisco on a Pacific tour because of concerns that it might be seized and held as collateral for a collection of Jewish books and manuscripts.
The three-masted Nadezhda turned sail on the advice of the Foreign Ministry, even though a welcome delegation was waiting for it at the pier, the ship’s owner, the Vladivostok-based Maritime State University, said Tuesday.
The incident took place last Friday, but the university only disclosed the official reason for the snub on its web site this week.
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Alexei Navalny vs. Vladlen Stepanov
Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny has lost a defamation lawsuit filed by Vladlen Stepanov, whom Navalny had implicated in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. This is very good news — not that Navalny lost, of course, but that the lawsuit publicized some very important information. But let’s first look at what we knew before the lawsuit.
We knew that there was a greenmailer, Hermitage Capital founder William Browder, who had a falling out with the Russian authorities. We know that in June 2007 Interior Ministry officer Artyom Kuznetsov entered Browder’s offices and seized documents and stamps of three of his “shell” firms — Hermitage Capital subsidiaries Makhaon, Parfenion and Riland.
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In Eye for Eye, U.S. Citizens Banned
An unpleasant surprise might await the next White House or Pentagon official who decides to go sightseeing in Moscow or take a dip at Sochi’s beaches: no visa.
The Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that it has banned entry for unspecified senior U.S. officials, “mirroring” a ban imposed by the U.S. State Department on Russian officials linked to the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The ministry hinted that the blacklist tit-for-tat could endanger a U.S.-Russian reset in relations. But an independent analyst said Russia’s ban was largely ceremonial because Moscow, if it were serious, would have targeted U.S. businesspeople in Russia.
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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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