If that is the case, if it is regime survival, one could also argue then advancements on human rights, particularly freedom of expression, knowing this government, is going to be extremely difficult because I think they look at that as a threat to their regime because of the nature of their leadership.
Linking North Korea's nuclear ambitions to regime survival and human rights issues.
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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.
If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well
Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?
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