Benjamin L. Cardin: “If your objective is for us to advance our values, why would you put us in a difficult position?”

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.