You can follow Bill Browder on Twitter where he continues to advocate for human rights. adoptions often enough, many Russians - 76 percent, according to a January VTsIOm poll - will accept them as truth.” Unfortunately, the Kremlin showed that if you repeat lies about U.S. adoptions, conducted mostly on state-controlled television, was a big success. “In the end, the Kremlin's massive propaganda campaign against U.S. The New Yorker wrote about the Russia adoption ban in 2012 and in 2013 Michael Bohm responded to 10 of the myths surrounding the ban and summarizing, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government retaliated, among other ways, by suspending American adoptions of Russian children.” Congress subsequently imposed sanctions on the officials it held responsible for his death, passing the Magnitsky Act in 2012. Sergei Magnitsky, an attorney Browder hired to investigate official corruption, died in Russian custody in 2009. “financier Bill Browder has emerged as an unlikely central player in the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

As described in an Atlantic article preceding the testimony, This New York Times article is one of the many article referred to in Red Notice and focuses on Russian officials receiving blame for Sergei Magnitsky’s death.īrowder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2017. While Browder recounts events from his perspective chronologically, it may also be helpful to read a journalists’ third person perspective written at the time of the events. government’s support of or retaliation toward Russia’s actions or Bill Browder’s continued crusades. The links here provide a few different directions to consider in bringing the most current news into your book discussion. Online ResourcesĮvery day there are new stories about human rights abuses in Russia or the U.S. Red Notice is a must read for anyone interested in the investigation to presidential election interference or looking for a book focused on standing up to power. to sanction foreign government officials (initially Russian officials) implicated in human rights violations. Browder lays out factually how the adoption ban was a direct retaliation for the Magnitsky Act, which allows the U.S. administration and Russian officials. Browder details the events that led to Russia stopping U.S adoptions of Russian children, the topic that Donald Trump Jr. 2016 presidential election and the resulting investigation, yet it is the backstory to at least some of the meetings between the U.S. The story Bill Browder recounts is critical to understating events key to the 2016 presidential election and to understanding how Browder’s actions and those of his associates became entangled with enormous corruption and human rights violations by Russian oligarchs. This book was published in 2014 and republished in 2015, well before the U.S.

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