Benjamin L. Cardin: “If Putin succeeds, he will be turning back the clock on international law around the world.”

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

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

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.