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 | President Obama Signs "Magnitsky Sanctions" Bill Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 1/19, 9:17am | |
| This case is the reason why Russia canceled adoptions by Americans. It is also why huge lots of US beef were condemned as "unfit for sale" in Russia. Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer who investigated the agencies of the Russian government that looted the British firm Hermitage Capital Management. On June 4, 2007, police from the Ministry of the Interior raided the offices, taking all the records and the corporate seal. They then turned over all the assets to various criminal gangs. Hermitage hired Sergei Magnitsky from the law firm of Firestone Duncan to investigate. Magnitsky was arrested and held in prison without charges until he died in 2009, after 359 days, one day short of the legal maximum that you can be held without being charged in Russia. Now, although dead, Magnitsky is being tried for embezzlement. Unlike the Cold War, the present hostility between Russia and the United States is not in the minds of most Americans. It should be. We knew then that Communism was inhumane. Islamic terrorism has our attention now, but in the past ten years, Russia has changed very little. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism hardly affected the deeper culture of Russia that made Communism possible there in the first place. Karl Marx expected the workers in Germany, the United Kingdom, or France (and perhaps America) to rise up first. But Marx misunderstood history and it was in Russia which hardly knew any democratic institutions or dynamic pluralism that made Communism possible. Today, the President of Russia is former KGB Lt. Col. Vladimir Putin. | ||
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