This bill banned American orphan-killing fiends from adopting any more Russian orphans. Russian legislators responded with the “Dima Yakovlev Bill,” named after a Russian orphan adopted by Americans who killed him by leaving him in a locked car for nine hours. The Americans chose to treat this as a human rights violation and responded with the so-called “Magnitsky Act” which sanctioned certain Russian individuals who were labeled as human rights violators. He had been holding items for some bigger Western crooks, who were, of course, never apprehended. There was much noise around a fellow named Magnitsky, a corporate lawyer-crook who got caught and died in pretrial custody. It turns out that I managed to spot an important trend, but given the quick pace of developments since then, these observations are now woefully out of date, and so here is an update.Īt that time the stakes weren't very high yet. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations that seemed important at the time. Octo" ICH " - A year and a half I wrote an essay on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled The Image of the Enemy.
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