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Purveyor

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Thu Apr 25, 2013, 06:57 PM Apr 2013

Putin Calls US ‘Imperial’ Over Magnitsky Act

MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of attempting to prove it was “the toughest” by adopting a law introducing sanctions against Russian officials suspected of human rights abuses.

Speaking at a live Q&A session with the Russian public, Putin said the adoption by the United States late last year of the Magnitsky Act, named after a whistleblowing Muscovite lawyer who died in police custody in 2009, was evidence of Washington’s “imperial behavior.”

“Why was this done?” Putin said. “To show ‘we are the toughest here.’ This is imperial behavior.”

Russia responded to the law with tit-for-tat sanctions against US officials, as well as a controversial ban on American families adopting Russian children.
“We warned them we would respond,” Putin said.

The Russian leader admitted a “cooling off” in Russia’s recent relations with the United States, but said ties had begun to worsen after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Putin Calls US ‘Imperial’ Over Magnitsky Act (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2013 OP
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Rex

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2. Russian President? Is that what he calls himself now?
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:00 PM
Apr 2013

Boy don't you know his buddy GWB is jealous! He only got to play dictator for 8 years...Putin gets it for life!

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