U.S. senators have introduced a bi-partisan bill titled the 'Holding Russia Accountable for Malign Activities Act of 2020.'
"This does not fit into any norms of international law. The person is alive and well, the clinic did not give a medical report on the reasons for his poisoning, there were only statements by politicians, and after that, there are sanctions? This is lawlessness," he added.
"Any time a huge round of sectoral sanctions is adopted somewhere in Europe, they open a big box of champagne in the Kremlin," Leonid Volkov told Deutsche Welle, because it"gives enormous opportunity for the Kremlin propaganda to support its narrative, like: 'the whole West is against us.'" Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza who helped spearhead the Magnitsky Act approved by Congress which has also been introduced in five other countries to punish Russian officials for human rights abuses, has himself been poisoned twice, in 2015 and 2017:"Why should millions of people be targeted and punished for the actions of a small unelected, unaccountable abusive clique at the...
"While Putin remains in power, there should be no more resets with a political regime that speaks to its opponents in the language of poison and bullets. "I absolutely have no doubt that there will come a day when the names of all those involved in the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny... will be brought to justice, convicted and serve the rest of their lives in prison. Obviously that's only going to happen once the Putin regime is out of power," he added.
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