Benjamin L. Cardin: “Transnational repression is a direct attack on our security and rights.”

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?

I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.