Ben Cardin: “Most forms of independent political activity, including [civic] and political party organizing, have been repressed.”

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

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 hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.