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Did you even read the two articles that you linked to? I mean, seriously.
The timing of the new law is awkward, as repression under President Vladimir Putin’s leadership has intensified in recent years. Concerns that Putin not be given a free ride led congressional lawmakers to incorporate sanctions into the bill named for Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblower who was imprisoned after exposing massive fraud by government officials in 2008. He died in custody in 2009.A list of the Russians is expected to be made public Friday under a measure dubbed the Magnitsky Act, named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates. In prison, Magnitsky was repeatedly beaten and denied medical treatment. He died in 2009 of untreated pancreatitis.
From Wikipedia (
http://goo.gl/gjtpG):
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (Russian: Сергей Леонидович Магнитский; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian accountant and auditor whose arrest and subsequent death in custody generated international media attention and triggered both official and unofficial inquiries into allegations of fraud, theft and human rights violations.[1] Magnitsky had alleged there was a large-scale systematic theft from the Russian state sanctioned and carried out by Russian officials. He was arrested and eventually died in prison seven days before the expiration of the one year term during which he could be legally held without trial.[2] In total, Magnitsky served 358 days in Moscow's notorious Butyrka prison. He developed gall stones, pancreatitis and a blocked gall bladder and received inadequate medical care. A human rights council set up by the Kremlin found that he was beaten up just before he died.[3] The Independent 19 March 2013 [4] His case has become an international cause célèbre[5] and led to the adoption of the Magnitsky bill by the US government at the end of 2012 by which those Russian officials believed to be involved in the lawyer’s death were barred from entering the United States or using its banking system. In response Russia blocked hundreds of foreign adoptions.[6] In early January 2013, the Financial Times editorialised that "the Magnitsky case is egregious, well documented and encapsulates the darker side of Putinism"[7]
Unfuckingbelievable. So this auditor and whistleblower finds massive fraud being committed, gets charged with tax fraud by himself, and is basically killed in prison. You then lay this all on some far-fetched Jewish conspiracy, and then wonder why Russia remains a backwards corrupt shithole. Fuck, any sane person would find this absolutely horrible. I'm actually a bit perturbed that I didn't hear about this case much earlier.
tl;dr: go fuck yourself.