Vladimir Kara-Murza: “In Russia, domestic repression and external aggression are always two sides of the same story.”

As long as Vladimir Putin is in power, as long as there is a regime in the Kremlin that disrespects the rights and freedoms of its own people, that tramples on its own laws and on its own constitution, it is never going to abide by the…

As we discussed earlier, we believe that sanction tools such as the Magnitsky Act should not be exclusively used to countries like Russia.

If you are a dictator, an aggressive autocratic dictator like Vladimir Putin, if somebody compromises with you, to you, that’s a sign of weakness, and that’s an invitation to grab more and more.

If one-tenth of those sanctions that were imposed over the past two weeks had been imposed a decade ago, we would not be here today.