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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 1, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: March 1, 2013

TODAY: Putin and Hollande meet, sign deals; children’s rights ombudsman lashes out at critics; Gessen detained; Iraq arms deal; top Internet companies revealed; USM sells stake in Mail.ru; Bashnefts $5 billion Dutch deal; domestic violence; wrestling. President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, had a ‘frank and direct’ meeting in the Kremlin yesterday, [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 21, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: January 21, 2013

TODAY: Memorial march for Markelov and Baburova; gay protesters beaten; Ephiphany holiday; Coordinating Council plans Spring march; naval exercises thought to be a reminder about Syria; anti-Magnitsky List now 60-strong; Moscow Exchange to list itself; WTO crash course; infrastructure savings; Bolshoi attack; mine explosion. Hundreds gathered in Moscow on Saturday to commemorate the fourth anniversary [...]

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The Kremlin’s Criminal Treatment of Russian Orphans

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: December 26, 2012

No one wanted to believe that Russia would actually go through with a cruel law to make it hard for orphans to find homes, but the appetite for revenge is high.

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The Magnistky Act and the Impact on U.S.-Russia Relations

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: December 7, 2012
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Donald Rumsfeld had better cancel that ski trip to Chechnya, because Russia plans to counteract the Magnitsky Act. What will the implications be for the broader U.S.-Russia relationship?

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Russia’s Conspiracy Theories over the Magnitsky Act

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: November 27, 2012

A good piece from Peter Rutland in the Moscow Times points out that for all the bitterness and wild conspiracy theories Russian pundits are throwing at the Magnitsky Act, there really isn’t any good reason for the US to do it besides human rights. Russian critics are convinced that the Magnitsky Act is part of [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 19, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 19, 2012

TODAY: Magnitsky Bill passes in U.S. House, Foreign Ministry promises to respond; Merkel and Putin spar, sign deals; Putin accuses Pussy Riot of anti-Semitism; Moldova blocks expanded formal Russian presence; further arrests made in corruption cases; Pozner on Razvozzhayev.  Backers of the Magnitsky Bill, which would penalise Russians suspected of human rights abuses, are anticipating [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 4, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: September 4, 2012

TODAY: Day of Remembrance for Terrorist Attacks; Putin critic loses job; Gudkov dismissal will set precedent; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to be held in Vladivostok this week; Moscow promises to retaliate against British Magnitsky Act; Russia foils Android; Ukraine competes with own car tax; rights activist on hunger strike. Yesterday marked the Day of Remembrance [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 27, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: July 27, 2012

TODAY: Activists protest in Moscow against rally-related detentions; Navalny calls Bastrykin a ‘foreign agent’; Sobchak money will not be returned; Olympics committee head slams Lukashenko ban; harvest forecasts will suffer; Russian journalist barred from embassy over Magnitsky Act; international tribunal orders return of Yukos investment to Spanish company. Hundreds of opposition supporters (the police say [...]

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Magnitsky Act vs. Jackson-Vanik

By Citizen M | Published: July 16, 2012

The FT weighs in today on the debate over the Magnitsky Act, which would ban Russian officials implicated in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from entering the U.S.  From Western journalists to Russian journalists to Vladimir Putin, the common line on the Act has been that the U.S. must ensure that no links are made between signing the [...]

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