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Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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