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Russian activist urges UK to publish human rights blacklist
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
30 April 2012
Text of report by Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy
Moscow, 30 April: Britain should publish the list of people barred from entering the country because of alleged abuse of human rights, executive director of the movement For Human Rights Lev Ponomarev said on the air of Ekho Moskvy radio.
“If it is a state security department [as received] initiative, it will not be public. It is important in this situation that the list be published. Otherwise there is not much point,” Ponomarev said.
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Official comments on Russia’s visa sanctions against US citizens.
ITAR TASS
Visa sanctions against a number of U.S. citizens introduced by Moscow were not a mirror-like reaction to the drawing up of the so-called Magnitsky list in the U.S., Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday as he spoke live on the air over the Echo of Moscow radio.
The Magnitsky list he referred to is a blacklist of Russian officials, whom the U.S. denies an entry to its territory on the grounds that they were – or might have been – involved in one way or another in the controversial case of the late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a staff-member at the Hermitage Capital Foundation consultancy based in the UK.
“We believe the Magnitsky list opens up a possibility of a major blow to bilateral relations,” Ryabkov said. “Once again, the mentality hinged on sanctions shows up. You can’t demonstrate all the time you think you have a right to punish anyone for anything.”
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Russian activists urge US senator to back bill to help jailed tycoons
Ekho Moskvy
Text of report by Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy on 20 January
[Presenter] A group of Russian human rights activists, writers, actors, politicians and journalists have appealed for help to US Senator John Kerry, asking him to support a bill which they think can help free Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev, who used to run Yukos.
The bill, named after Sergey Magnitskiy [a Hermitage Capital lawyer who died in pre-trial detention] is now under consideration in the [US] Senate. The bill not only provides for sanctions in the Magnitskiy case but also encompasses the whole spectrum of human rights violations. According to rights campaigners, the list of people involved in breaching human rights should also include civil servants responsible for the politically motivated persecution of Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev.
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U.S. Congress holds hearings on human rights in Russia
This week the U.S. Congress held hearings on human rights in Russia. The first remarks by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), conducting the hearings, and they were pretty tough. This was not surprising, since long ago she signed a bill named for Sergey L. Magnitsky, a Russian attorney killed in police custody. This bill now has twenty-five senators supporting it in the upper house of the U.S. Congress, and may well be adopted. Further testimony was given Phillip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, and Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
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Russian lawyer says Magnitskiy tax evasion case reopened illegally
The tax evasion case against late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy, who died in a Moscow remand centre on 16 November 2009, has been reopened illegally, Dmitriy Kharitonov, lawyer of Magnitskiy’s widow, told Russian news agency Interfax on 24 November. Kharitonov also said the investigators should not seek the views of Magnitskiy’s relatives on the case.
Under the law, the case of Magnitskiy can only be reopened for his rehabilitation, however, the Interior Ministry is not ready to take this step, Kharitonov told radio station Echo Moskvy on 24 November.
“They reopened the case not because the family members had asked so but on the initiative of the Prosecutor-General’s Office. If they did so on the initiative of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, then, as far as I understand it, they did this for his rehabilitation. If they want his rehabilitation together with the Prosecutor-General’s Office, let them drop the criminal case on exonerative grounds and let the relatives alone,” Kharitonov told Interfax.
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Famous businessman refuses to take part in Russian Business Week 2011
Ekho Moskvy
[Presenter] Famous businessman Aleksandr Lebedev has refused to take part in the Russian Business Week in London due to be opened by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today. The entrepreneur has explained his decision by the worsening of business climate in Russia. Aleksandr Borzenko has the details.
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Russian pundits question Medvedev’s, deputy PM’s investor reassurances at Davos
Ekho Moskvy
Independent radio Ekho Moskvy has asked prominent experts to comment on a speech given by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 27 January. Shuvalov was in particular quizzed about the fate of the Hermitage Capital fund. Shuvalov told William Browder, head of the fund, that attention should be focused on the positive trends in Russia, and that 20 people had been dismissed following the death in custody of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy.
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