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It is particularly important in this regard to continue implementing the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which provides for targeted visa and financial sanctions against individuals responsible for gross human rights…
Do not treat Vladimir Putin as a desired international partner. Do not enable the export of corruption--political or financial--from Mr. Putin's regime to the West.
It should be made clear that these measures target Vladimir Putin's unelected regime, not the Russian people.
the goal of the United States was crystallized by George H.W. Bush in May of 1989 to build and maintain a 'Europe whole and free.'
If we just ignore this and move on, what kind of signal are we sending?
The Russian Federation and extremist political parties in the countries we are talking about.
The question of human rights and political freedoms are not internal affairs.
One of the first decrees that Mr. Putin signed on his inauguration day... was the request of the Foreign Ministry to stop the Magnitsky Act.
Let me be perfectly clear. Vladimir Putin's Russia has made this a zero-sum game. Where democracies prosper in its neighborhood, it loses.
They are definitely looking for honesty and they are looking for Western democracies to abide by the principles that you preach.
Nor does it help when many in Congress act as if Russia's interference in our elections is not important.
It does not help when our own President extols the virtues of someone like Vladimir Putin, who has murdered his political opponents and rules like an authoritarian dictator.
I worry about the Trump Administration empowering Russia, and I do not want that.
Will each of you assure me that you will facilitate a rapid and efficient transfer of the operations of those medical facilities to the DHA?
It does not help when our own president, who has bragged about his business dealings in Russia--a place where doing business is often synonymous with bribery--refuses to release his tax returns.
He can get away with it because he has simultaneously and systematically silenced his critics.
If he's not willing to tell the Democrats and the Republicans on the committee who he met with and what he was told, then I think he's lost his ability to lead.