02/27/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"Let me be perfectly clear. Vladimir Putin's Russia has made this a zero-sum game. Where democracies prosper in its neighborhood, it loses."
"If we just ignore this and move on, what kind of signal are we sending?"
"The Russian Federation and extremist political parties in the countries we are talking about."
"One of the first decrees that Mr. Putin signed on his inauguration day... was the request of the Foreign Ministry to stop the Magnitsky Act."