Ben Cardin: “I think that is the most important thing we can do is enhance our own relationship with the continent of Africa.”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well