The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Russians, including the leader of Chechnya, under a U.S. human rights law that has been a major irritant between Washington and Moscow.
The five Russians were targeted under the Magnitsky Act, passed by Congress in 2012 in response to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. He died in prison after exposing a tax fraud scheme involving Russian officials, and the law named after him allows the U.S. to target violators of human rights. All told, the U.S. has targeted 49 Russians under that law.
The latest additions include Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim republic in southern Russia. The Treasury Department said Kadyrov oversaw "disappearances and extrajudicial killings" and that he's believed to have ordered the killing of one of his political rivals.
The rival had accused Kadyrov of personally carrying out torture
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This causes me to ask, again, who's running "the show"?
ReplyDeleteState Dept actions against Hungary, Poland, meddling in Ukraine, now Chechnya which supposedly goes after terrs, etc.
Good ole MAGA!
For clarification, here is the REAL reason Russia banned America and certain other countries from adopting Russian children.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10635821/Russia-bans-adoptions-from-countries-that-allow-gay-marriage.html
Y'all have a nice day.
Thanks.
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Citizens of the United States have been banned from adopting Russian orphans since January 2013, under a package of laws named after Dima Yakovlev, a Russian child who died in 2008 after his American adoptive parents left in a parked car for nine hours.