Bill Browder
CEO Hermitage Capital, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice campaign, and Author of Red Notice
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Cyprus officials implicated in plan to sell passport to criminals
Al Jazeera reveals how Cypriot officials discussed finding ways to provide citizenship to a convicted criminal.
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Bill Browder
Absolutely devastating @AJEnglish news report that exposes Cyprus politicians selling passports to money launderers so these people can get access to the EU.
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UK sanctions Alexey Navalny’s poisoners
The UK will enforce sanctions against 6 individuals and an entity responsible for the Novichok poisoning of Alexey Navalny.
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: U.K. government steps in to sanction head of Russia’s secret police, Alexander Bortnikov (and 5 others) for their assassination attempt on @navalny
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EU imposes sanctions on six Russian officials over Navalny poisoning
Prominent Putin critic believed to have been poisoned with Novichok
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: EU sanctions Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB (plus five other senior Russian officials) over the attempted assassination of @navalny with Novichok. Welcome news and a good list, but it should be longer
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Uighurs tell Australian inquiry of 'intimidation and harassment' from Chinese government
Chinese Communist party accused of ‘increasing its oppressions and control of Uighurs at an alarming rate’
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Bill Browder
Australian parliament to hear evidence of Uighur genocide by the Chinese government as they consider adopting an Australian Magnitsky Act. I can’t think of a more relevant example for why Magnitsky is needed.
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Belarus: UK sanctions 8 members of regime, including Alexander Lukashenko
The UK has sanctioned 8 members of the Belarusian regime, including Alexander Lukashenko, for human rights violations in Belarus after the rigged elections.
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BREAKING: British government applies Magnitsky sanctions to Alexander Lukashenko and seven members of his regime for their violent attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Belarus
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Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Kremlin confirmed on Thursday.
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Bill Browder
Shortly after Putin unsuccessfully tried to assassinate @navalny a group of high profile Russians nominated Putin for a Nobel Peace Prize
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Russia Seizes Kremlin Critic Navalny’s Apartment - The Moscow Times
The move comes as part of a $1-million court ruling in favor of "Putin's chef" Yevgeny Prigozhin, Navalny's spokeswoman said.
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Bill Browder
This is seriously sick. The day after @navalny was discharged from hospital after Putin’s unsuccessful Novichok poisoning attempt, his goons seize Navalny’s Apartment in Mosocw
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UK preparing Magnitsky sanctions over Belarus human rights violations: minister
Britain is preparing Magnitsky sanctions against individuals in Belarus in coordination with the United States and Canada, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Thursday, after pointedly criticising the country's recent election.
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: UK preparing Magnitsky sanctions over Belarus human rights violations. BRAVO!
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Protest-Plagued Belarus Strongman Transfers Son to Moscow School – Reports - The Moscow Times
“Lukashenko’s services ... concluded that Kolya will be very uncomfortable” at school in Belarus, one academic said.
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Bill Browder
Lukashenko transfers his son to Moscow for boarding school. There could be no better sign of which way the wind is blowing in Belarus.
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Tory peer paid £6m by Russian energy company linked to billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin
Conservative MPS call for more scrutiny into members of the House of Lords working with foreign governments
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Shocking. Lord Barker was paid £6m by Russian energy company linked to billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin to lobby Russian interests.
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Alexei Navalny: Putin critic 'to return to Russia' as he shares first photo after novichok poisoning — Sky News
Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has shared his first picture from hospital as his spokeswoman confirmed that he plans to return to the country.
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Bill Browder
First picture of @navalny since his poisoning. They roughed him up bad, but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
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Germany: Foreign labs confirm Navalny poisoned with Novichok
The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: Specialist labs in France and Sweden test new blood samples from @navalny and confirm that he was poisoned with Novichok. It’s now time for the EU to apply crippling Magnitsky sanctions to the top officials in the Putin regime responsible
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The Case for a New and Improved Magnitsky Law – Policy Magazine
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Bill Browder
Very good article from @IrwinCotler making the case that money frozen under the Magnitsky Act should be paid to victims. “The Case for a New and Improved Magnitsky Law”
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Russia's Navalny out of coma after poisoning
The condition of opposition figure Alexei Navalny has improved, German doctors treating him say.
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: @navalny out of coma after Novichok poisoning and responding to verbal stimuli. Good news, but now we need to pray for a full recovery.
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Dominic Raab slams Russian 'gangsterism' after Alexei Navalny attack
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Moscow had a 'case to answer' over the use of banned chemical weapon Novichok against Alexei Navalny.
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Bill Browder
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab slams Russian government 'gangsterism' after Alexei Navalny poison attack
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Sanctions, pipelines: How the West should respond to the Navalny poisoning
'If the right people are sanctioned in response to the Navalny poisoning, that will have a seriously crippling effect on the Putin regime,' one expert says.
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Bill Browder
A good discussion by @globalnews of the policy options currently on the table for how the West should punish Putin for poisoning Navalny with Novichok
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Russia has become a 'killocracy' where people who stand up to Putin often meet a sticky end
Even if he recovers fully, poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny will spend the rest of his days watching over his shoulder
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Bill Browder
This is disturbing. FBI is investigating the sudden deaths of two mining executives in 2015 in Springfield Missouri who were due to give evidence in a UK corruption probe
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Drink the vodka, not the tea: Why do Russians get poisoned?
The Kremlin's foes have a much higher chance of succumbing to rare poisons than the general population. Who poisoned Navalny? And what does it mean for Russia?
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Bill Browder
Very well researched article on why Putin loves using to poison to eliminate his enemies by @Sherryn_G at the @smh
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Baltic states hit Lukashenko, other Belarus officials with sanctions
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia imposed travel bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials on Monday, jumping into action to impose sanctions before the rest of the EU.
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Bill Browder
BREAKING: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia apply Magnitsky sanctions to Lukashenko and senior officials in his regime for the their violent crackdown on peaceful protests in Belarus. The US, EU Canada and the U.K. should follow suit immediately
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