Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer in Russia exposing large-scale corruption by government officials when he was beaten to death by guards in a Moscow prison in 2009; Alexander Perepilichnyy, a Russian businessman, had fled to Britain and was a whistleblower over the same fraud when he mysteriously collapsed and died last month.
These two dramatic deaths bookend the remarkable crusade of Bill Browder, the American-born investor for whom Mr. Magnitsky worked and to whom Mr. Perepilichnyy was spilling his secrets.
On Thursday, Mr. Browder saw the U.S. Senate pass the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act by a wide margin, a law blacklisting Russian human rights abusers.
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It was a triumphant moment for Mr. Browder, who has relentlessly lobbied for such sanctions, but it hardly ends his quest for justice over Mr. Magnitsky’s gruesome demise.
h/t Kevin B
Canada should open her doors up to the people of Russia to fill the imaginary immigration void. I personally like Russians, especially the Orthodox Christian ones. As far as immigration goes, I don’t believe that we need as many as the Harpey government says we do, especially at a cost of 26 billion a year. Nevertheless, we are still manufacturing and maintaining the Trudeau system of multiculturalism and the social engineering of Trudeau equality. Our current conservative government immigration policies allow hundred of thousands of Islamic refugees and immigrants to come here each year form countries that hate us. These countries openly support terrorism and jihad against the western infidel, countries such as Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and many African countries only to name a few. Yeah Russia has issues with crime and corruption but they haven’t exactly hijacked any airplanes lately or blown up cars and buildings in the name of a sky daddy mohammad in order to receive 72 virgins or something.
Hundreds of thousands of Islamic refugees and immigrants?
Statistics Canada reports that the average number of refugees over the past five years (rounded out numbers) is 27,000 per year. The Family Class dropped from 66,000 to 56,000 from 2007 to 2011. And skilled workers went from 131,000 to 156,000.
Totals? Average 250,000 per year.
As for multiculturalism, which I strongly oppose, it’s in our Charter. It’s the law.
I fully agree with blacklisting any human rights abusers from any nation. This doesn’t mean blacklisting the entire population or nation, but the individual. And it does send a clear message to the government of that nation that human rights are not trivial.
That was a very interesting article. Nothing has changed in Russia, as there was massive corruption under the Mongols, the Tsars, the Commissars, and now in the post-Soviet era.
Sergei Magnitsky is a hero and so is Bill Browder.
What’s that old saying…the more things change,the more they stay the same.
Gee, maybe we should invite Gazprom to invest here too. Even though they’re controlled by a corrupt government, they couldn’t be corrupt…
“Mr. Browder’s success last week in Washington brought a rebuke from Moscow, with threats of countermeasures against Americans. The diplomatic spat threatens to further damage strained U.S.-Russia relations.”
Battle of the gangsters, Capone mob versus O’Bannion gang. It will be interesting to see how the most corrupt government in American history handles this case, window dressing aside.
This is not a new story,i read about this some 18 months ago…Putin is the biggest thug on this planet, like the man said “its ok to take a break during orgies”s..and how dis putin manage to amass 4o some billion dollars in wealth..ever wonder why there in the streets in Russia.
As Ken said, nothing much has changed in Russia. It remains to be seen if it can withstand not just internal meltdowns but the rise of Islamism, China and India.
Perepilichnyy was NOT a businessman.
He’s only a businessman for the naive and ignorant Americans. For the European LEOs he is just as crooked as those he was spilling beans on – just the wrong kind of crook from corrupt Russian authorities POV. He’s chosen wrong side and crossed the wrong people, that’s it. If he was in the right team, no one would have known his name now – he’d still be an obscure successful crook.
It’s only a big deal for you – oh, horrors, one guy died under suspicious circumstances… In Russian this is par for the game, business as usual and nothing to see here, move along.
My cynical problem with this sort of meddling is that it invites retaliation, like the ICC trying our soldiers or our president. I have no respect for the UN or the ICC.