I appealed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a request to introduce a number of personal sanctions against these people, attaching a list of names.
Initially, the list contained 60 names of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Federal Tax Service, the Arbitration Court, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Penitentiary Service, as well as brief description the role of each of these individuals in the Hermitage Capital case and in the prosecution of Sergei Magnitsky. In the future, when, based on the initiatives of Cardin and others in different countries various regulations, the number of people in them sometimes differed from the original list.
Background
In 2007, 5.4 billion rubles were stolen from the Russian budget, which is considered the largest single theft of funds from the Russian state budget in history. This crime was first discovered by employees of the firm Firestone Duncan, which served the legal interests of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, among whom were Eduard Khairetdinov, Vladimir Pastukhov, Jamison Firestone and Sergei Magnitsky. They initiated an investigation into the theft of budget funds, within the framework of which the list of participants in the crime became obvious, including several dozen employees of various Russian executive authorities.
On November 24, 2008, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested on charges of helping the head of the Hermitage Capital Management fund, William Browder, in tax evasion. After 11 months of pre-trial detention, Sergei died in the hospital of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Moscow. The initiator of his arrest and the investigator in his case turned out to be key participants in the theft uncovered by Sergei and his colleagues.
Legislative recognition of the list
In the American Congress, the initiative of Cardin and McCovern was considered under the name English Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 . The future law was drafted in such a way that executive bodies US authorities at any time had the opportunity to add and remove people from the “List...”: it “will be open for additions, but closed to the public.”
In September 2012, it became known that Great Britain had already put its “Magnitsky Act” into effect. At the same time, it became known that the introduction within the countries of sanctions provided for by the Magnitsky Act was proposed by deputies from Sweden and the Netherlands. In addition to the United States and Great Britain, the authorities of Canada, Poland and Estonia spoke at various times about their readiness to join sanctions against Sergei’s killers.
Subsequent additions to the list
In a resolution of the European Parliament dated December 16, 2010, Cardin’s list was supplemented with one more character - judge Artur Karpov.
- Treating Bogatyrev, suspected of murdering Umar Israilov (former bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov).
- Kazbek Dukuzov, suspected of murdering the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes, Paul Khlebnikov, in Moscow.
In April 2014, the European Parliament adopted another resolution - a ban on entry into EU countries and the freezing of European assets (if any) of 32 individuals who, according to European deputies, are directly responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky
The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to impose visa sanctions against Russians whose names are on the so-called “Magnitsky list” and at the same time repeal the Jackson-Vanik trade amendment, which discriminates against Russia. This was reported on the website of the US House of Representatives.
The bill is simultaneously being considered in the upper house of the US Congress - the Senate. If approved, the law will be signed by US President Barack Obama and could be passed before the December Christmas holidays, after which it will come into force.
Those involved in the “Magnitsky list” are involved, from the American point of view, in the death in a pre-trial detention center of the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who revealed facts of large-scale tax fraud in Russia. The bill provides for visa and economic sanctions against both officials involved in the arrest and death of the lawyer, “and those civil servants who shield these officials from responsibility.”
The initiator of compiling the list was US Senator Benjamin Cardin. In May 2011, he introduced an expanded draft law dedicated to Sergei Magnitsky to the Senate. The bill obliges the US Secretary of State to draw up a list of individuals involved in human rights violations who will be subject to US sanctions, in particular, a ban on their entry into the US, seizure of assets in the country and in US-controlled financial institutions, as well as a ban on any transactions with these assets and income from them. According to Hermitage Capital, the bill has already been supported by 14 “heavyweight senators” from both leading parties in Congress.
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital investment fund, died in November 2009 in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. Previously, he managed to uncover a scheme through which capital operatives, in collusion with tax authorities, were able to steal 5.4 billion rubles from the budget. A criminal case was opened against Magnitsky and in November 2008 the lawyer was sent to jail, but a year later he died in a pre-trial detention center, reportedly from an aggravated illness. A case was opened into his death, and Dmitry Medvedev ordered to check the quality of medical care provided in Russian prisons. According to Hermitage, about 60 civil servants are responsible for the death of the lawyer. President Dmitry Medvedev promised that the results of the investigation into Magnitsky's death would be made public soon.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry called the adoption by the lower house of the US Congress of the Magnitsky bill, which provides for the introduction of visa and financial sanctions against a number of Russian civil servants, an “unfriendly and provocative attack.”
“Congressmen did not heed repeated warnings that this step would negatively affect the general atmosphere of Russian-American relations and would not remain without a tough response from our side,” said a statement published on Friday on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“Retaliatory measures on our part will definitely follow, and responsibility for this will fall entirely on the United States,” the Russian Foreign Ministry warned. “If anyone in Congress believes that Russia can be talked to in the language of sanctions and ultimatums,<...>then such a calculation has no prospects,” the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes in a statement.
The lower house of the US Congress on Friday, November 16, voted to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which limited trade with the Russian Federation, while simultaneously passing a bill on the Magnitsky list.
The Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act was adopted in 1974 in connection with violations of human rights to emigrate in the USSR. This amendment imposes restrictions on trade with Russia.
The Magnitsky list bill was introduced to the US Congress in connection with the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian pre-trial detention center in 2009. According to Magnitsky’s relatives and colleagues, the lawyer’s arrest and death were related to the fact that he uncovered the theft of 5.4 billion rubles from the budget.
The draft law on the Magnitsky list provides for the introduction of visa and financial sanctions against Russian government officials suspected of involvement in the death of a Hermitage Capital lawyer and other human rights violations.
The Magnitsky list bill must still be approved by the upper house of the US Congress. It is expected that this document will be submitted to the US President for signature before the end of 2012.
“Magnitsky List”: finally!
The Russian Foreign Ministry, together with the Duma and the Federation Council, unanimously condemns the adoption by the US House of Representatives of the law on the “Magnitsky list” and threatens “retaliatory measures.”
What actually happened?
A sovereign country, the United States of America, decides not to admit Russian citizens whom it considers involved in the death in a pre-trial detention center of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and to freeze their accounts and property in American banks and in the United States. What he has every right to: it is the owner’s business to let guests in or not, and whether to do business with them. In the same way, the Russian Federation has the right to decide who to allow into its territory and who not to allow.
However, the hysteria of Russian diplomats and the deputies and senators who joined this chorus was not caused by a misunderstanding of this simple logic. And it’s completely different: such measures, judging by the reaction, are perhaps the only thing coming from the West that domestic “VIPs” are really afraid of.
Of course, we can start (which is what our Foreign Ministry is doing now, one of the most reactionary structures in Russian authorities, which has changed little since the era of Molotov and Gromyko) threaten the United States with “retaliatory lists.” But they scare few people
Or does anyone know American officials who keep money in Russia, buy real estate from us and do business, send their children to us to study and their wives to relax? But there are a great many examples to the contrary, although exactly the same representatives of the Russian “elite” constantly talk in public about the “hostile West.” But for some reason they prefer to conduct business, relax, study and receive treatment not in North Korea, not in Belarus and not in Kazakhstan.
It is clear that for them the Magnitsky list is a sharp knife. So it sounds on all channels: “an unfriendly and provocative attack”, “under the guise of an imaginary “concern” for human rights”, “we advise American legislators to take a closer look at the unsightly picture of the observance of human rights in the United States itself”...
Well, there has already been a report by Churov on the shortcomings of the electoral system in the United States.
And a report from the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights violations in the United States.
We are waiting for the report from the director of AvtoVAZ about the shortcomings of American cars.
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July 27, 2011 | Alexei Nesterenko The US State Department has approved the “Magnitsky list” - a list of Russian officials who are prohibited from entering the United States and whose bank accounts in this country will henceforth be frozen. |
Everyone knows the reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry to the EU’s intention to restrict the entry into Europe of a number of Russian officials who were involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Not many, even in Russia, have heard these glorious names and what exactly is blamed on them. The newspaper "My District" filled this gap. It's a pity there are no portraits.
High-ranking officials banned from entering the European Union
The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a resolution that calls for a ban on entry into the European Union for 60 Russian officials involved in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the British firm Firestone Duncan, and demands that EU law enforcement agencies seize the bank accounts of these people.
In September of this year, Russian human rights activists sent an open appeal to the European Parliament. They stated the need to involve criminal liability officials related to the death of Magnitsky, says Evgeny Ikhlov, an employee of the human rights organization “For Rights”. However, according to him, the seizure of accounts and the ban on entry into EU countries is an initiative of the European Parliament Committee on International Affairs.
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer at the British firm Firestone Duncan, which provided legal services to the Hermitage Capital Management fund, died in prison from kidney disease on November 16, 2009. Despite the doctors' orders, the investigator refused the lawyers' request to provide Magnitsky with medical assistance. Magnitsky's friends believe that Sergei was actually killed. Before a criminal case was opened against Magnitsky for fraud, he reported the involvement of some police officers in the theft of $230 million from the budget.
Russian officials included in the so-called Magnitsky list will receive “black marks” in December this year if the European Parliament approves the resolution. Similar legislative initiatives have already been submitted to the US Parliament by Senator Benjamin Cardin and to the Canadian Parliament by Deputy Irwin Coulter, reports Evgeny Ikhlov.
Who was on the Magnitsky list?
General Alexey Anichkin, head of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He allowed to initiate a criminal case against Sergei Magnitsky.
Artem Kuznetsov. At the time of the investigation into the case of Sergei Magnitsky, he worked at the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate. Magnitsky stated that Kuznetsov, among other officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, employees of the prosecutor's office and tax authorities, was involved in the theft of $230 million from the state treasury, and he helped bring a criminal case against Magnitsky for tax evasion. Over the past three years, Kuznetsov has spent about three million dollars on the purchase of real estate.
Pavel Karpov, investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate. He was also accused by Magnitsky of involvement in the theft of 230 million and contributed to the initiation of a criminal case against the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital fund. Since the arrest of Sergei Magnitsky, the Karpov family has bought real estate and cars worth $1.3 million.
Full list
1. Alexey ANICHKIN, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Head of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
2. Oleg LOGUNOV, head of the legal department of the General Prosecutor's Office, formerly deputy head of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
3. Oleg SILCHENKO, head of the investigation team of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
4. Alexander MATVEEV, Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
5. Gennady KARLOV, head of the department of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
6. Natalya VINOGRADOVA, deputy head of the department of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
7. Alexander RYABININ, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
8. Sergei OLEINIK, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
9.A.A. MALYGINA, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
10.M.O. SAPUNOVA, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
11.E. V. MIKHAILOV, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
12.R. A. GRITSAY, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
13.I.A. VARGANOV, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
14.N.I. DMITRIEVA, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
15. ARTEM KUZNETSOV, employee of the Department for Combating Tax Crimes (deputy head of the 6th department), now the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate
16. Alexey DROGANOV, employee of the Department for Combating Tax Crimes (Kuznetsov’s subordinate) of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate
17. Dmitry TOLMITSKY, employee of the Department for Combating Tax Crimes (employee of the 6th department) of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate
18.A.A. KRECHETOV, employee of the Department for Combating Tax Crimes (employee of the 6th department) of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate
19. Alexander KLEVTSOV, employee of the Department for Combating Tax Crimes (Head of the 6th Department) of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate
20. Anatoly MIKHAILIN, Head of the Tax Crimes Department (dismissed) of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate
21. Pavel KARPOV, investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate
22.Ivan GLUKHOV, Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate
23.Nikolai BUDILO, investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
24. Oleg URZHUMTSEV, investigator of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan
25. Alexander KUVALDIN, employee of the Department of Economic Security ("K") of the FSB of the Russian Federation
26. Viktor VORONIN, Head, Department of Economic Security ("K") FSB of the Russian Federation
27. Stanislav GORDEEVSKY, prosecutor, Moscow Prosecutor's Office
28. Natalya YAKIMOVICH, prosecutor, deputy head of the department of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office for the Northern Administrative District
29. Sergey LAZUTKIN, prosecutor, head of the department of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office for the Northern Administrative District
30. Arkady MAZHAEV, head of the department of procedural control in the field of anti-corruption of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
31. Alexander BUROV, prosecutor of the Prosecutor General's Office
32.Andrey PECHEGIN, head of department of the Prosecutor General's Office
33. Viktor GRIN, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
34.Elena KHIMINA, Head of Tax Inspectorate 25
35. Sergey ZHEMCHUZHNIKOV, Deputy Head of Tax Inspectorate 25 of the Federal Tax Service of Moscow
36. Raisa BURMISTROVA, head of the tax debt department (inspectorate 25) of the Moscow Federal Tax Service
37.Alexandra KUZNETSOVA, head of department (inspection 25) Federal Tax Service of Moscow
38.Yulia KOLTUNOVA, head of the tax audit department (inspectorate 25) of the Moscow Federal Tax Service
39.Olga STEPANOVA, head of the tax office (inspectorate 28) of the Federal Tax Service of Moscow
40. Olga TSUMAY, head of the tax audit department (inspectorate 28) Federal Tax Service of Moscow
41. Svetlana Dubrovskaya, head of the tax audit department (inspectorate 28) of the Moscow Federal Tax Service
42. Olga DAVYDOVA, head of the tax debt department (inspectorate 28) Federal Tax Service of Moscow
43. Ekaterina FROLOVA, head of department (inspection 28) Federal Tax Service of Moscow
44. Olesya SHARGORODSKAYA, employee of inspection 28 of the Federal Tax Service of Moscow
45. Maxim TRETYAKOV, head of the legal department of inspection 28 of the Federal Tax Service of Moscow
46.Ivan PROKOPENKO, head of the "Matrosskaya Tishina" pre-trial detention center
47. Dmitry KOMNOV, head (retired) of the Butyrsky pre-trial detention center
48. Dmitry KRATOV, deputy head for treatment and preventive work of the Butyrsky pre-trial detention center
49. Larisa LITVINOVA, head of the medical department of the Butyrsky pre-trial detention center
50.Sergey PODOPRIGOROV, judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow
51. Alexey KRIVORUCHKO, judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow
52. Svetlana UKHNALEVA, judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow
53. Elena STASHINA, judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow
54.Galina FILIPOVA, judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow
55. Tatyana KORNEEVA, judge of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow
56. Rufina GAZIZOVA, judge of the city of Kazan
57. Andrey YUSHKOV, judge of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan
58. Elena KIM, judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court
59. Ildar SALIMZYANOV, judge of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan
60.Maria ZINUROVA, judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court
, the Arbitration Court, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Federal Penitentiary Service, as well as a brief description of the role of each of these individuals in the Hermitage Capital case and in the prosecution of Sergei Magnitsky. Later, when various regulations were adopted in different countries based on the initiatives of Cardin and others, the number of people in them sometimes differed from the original list.
Background
In 2007, 5.4 billion rubles were stolen from the Russian budget, which is considered the largest single theft of funds from the Russian state budget in history. This crime was first discovered by employees of the firm Firestone Duncan, which served the legal interests of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, among whom were Eduard Khairetdinov, Vladimir Pastukhov, Jamison Firestone and Sergei Magnitsky. They initiated an investigation into the theft of budget funds, within the framework of which the list of participants in the crime became obvious, including several dozen employees of various Russian executive authorities.
On November 24, 2008, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested on charges of helping the head of the Hermitage Capital Management fund, William Browder, to evade taxes. After 11 months of pre-trial detention, Sergei died in the hospital of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Moscow. The initiator of his arrest and the investigator in his case turned out to be the key participants in the theft uncovered by Sergei and his colleagues.
Legislative recognition of the list
In the American Congress, the initiative of Cardin and McCovern was considered under the name English Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 . The future law was drafted in such a way that the US executive authorities would have the ability to add and remove people from the “List...” at any time: it “will be open for additions, but closed to the public.”
In September 2012, it became known that Great Britain had already put its “Magnitsky Act” into effect. At the same time, it became known that the introduction within the countries of sanctions provided for by the Magnitsky Act was proposed by deputies from Sweden and the Netherlands. In addition to the United States and Great Britain, the authorities of Canada, Poland and Estonia spoke at various times about their readiness to join sanctions against Sergei’s killers.
Subsequent additions to the list
In a resolution of the European Parliament dated December 16, 2010, Cardin’s list was supplemented with one more character - judge Artur Karpov.
- Treating Bogatyrev, suspected of murdering Umar Israilov (former bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov).
- Kazbek Dukuzov, suspected of murdering the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes, Paul Klebnikov, in Moscow.
In April 2014, the European Parliament adopted another resolution - a ban on entry into EU countries and the freezing of European assets (if any) of 32 individuals who, according to European deputies, are directly responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
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Excerpt characterizing the Magnitsky List
Nesvitsky, puffing, stood up and, smiling, approached the general.- Would your Excellency like to have a snack? - he said.
“It’s not good,” said the general, without answering him, “our people hesitated.”
– Shouldn’t we go, Your Excellency? - said Nesvitsky.
“Yes, please go,” said the general, repeating what had already been ordered in detail, “and tell the hussars to be the last to cross and light the bridge, as I ordered, and to inspect the flammable materials on the bridge.”
“Very good,” answered Nesvitsky.
He called to the Cossack with the horse, ordered him to remove his purse and flask, and easily threw his heavy body onto the saddle.
“Really, I’ll go see the nuns,” he said to the officers, who looked at him with a smile, and drove along the winding path down the mountain.
- Come on, where will it go, captain, stop it! - said the general, turning to the artilleryman. - Have fun with boredom.
- Servant to the guns! - the officer commanded.
And a minute later the artillerymen ran out cheerfully from the fires and loaded.
- First! - a command was heard.
Number 1 bounced smartly. The gun rang metallic, deafening, and a grenade flew whistling over the heads of all our people under the mountain and, not reaching the enemy, showed with smoke the place of its fall and burst.
The faces of the soldiers and officers brightened at this sound; everyone got up and began observing the clearly visible movements of our troops below and in front of the movements of the approaching enemy. At that very moment the sun completely came out from behind the clouds, and this beautiful sound of a single shot and the shine of the bright sun merged into one cheerful and cheerful impression.
Two enemy cannonballs had already flown over the bridge, and there was a crush on the bridge. In the middle of the bridge, having dismounted from his horse, pressed with his thick body against the railing, stood Prince Nesvitsky.
He, laughing, looked back at his Cossack, who, with two horses in the lead, stood a few steps behind him.
As soon as Prince Nesvitsky wanted to move forward, the soldiers and carts again pressed on him and again pressed him against the railing, and he had no choice but to smile.
- What are you, my brother! - the Cossack said to the Furshtat soldier with the cart, who was pressing on the infantry crowded with the very wheels and horses, - what are you! No, to wait: you see, the general has to pass.
But Furshtat, not paying attention to the name of the general, shouted at the soldiers blocking his way: “Hey!” fellow countrymen! keep left, wait! “But the fellow countrymen, crowding shoulder to shoulder, clinging with bayonets and without interruption, moved along the bridge in one continuous mass. Looking down over the railing, Prince Nesvitsky saw the fast, noisy, low waves of Ens, which, merging, rippling and bending around the bridge piles, overtook one another. Looking at the bridge, he saw equally monotonous living waves of soldiers, coats, shakos with covers, backpacks, bayonets, long guns and, from under the shakos, faces with wide cheekbones, sunken cheeks and carefree tired expressions, and moving legs along the sticky mud dragged onto the boards of the bridge . Sometimes, between the monotonous waves of soldiers, like a splash of white foam in the waves of Ens, an officer in a raincoat, with his own physiognomy different from the soldiers, squeezed between the soldiers; sometimes, like a chip winding through a river, a foot hussar, an orderly or a resident was carried across the bridge by waves of infantry; sometimes, like a log floating along the river, surrounded on all sides, a company or officer's cart, piled to the top and covered with leather, floated across the bridge.
“Look, they broke like a dam,” the Cossack said, stopping hopelessly. -Are there many of you still there?
– Melion without one! - a cheerful soldier walking nearby in a torn overcoat said winking and disappeared; another, old soldier walked behind him.
“When he (he is the enemy) begins to fry the taperich on the bridge,” the old soldier said gloomily, turning to his comrade, “you will forget to itch.”
And the soldier passed by. Behind him another soldier rode on a cart.
“Where the hell did you stuff the tucks?” - said the orderly, running after the cart and rummaging in the back.
And this one came with a cart. This was followed by cheerful and apparently drunk soldiers.
“How can he, dear man, blaze with the butt right in the teeth…” one soldier in an overcoat tucked high said joyfully, waving his hand widely.
- This is it, sweet ham is that. - answered the other with laughter.
And they passed, so Nesvitsky did not know who was hit in the teeth and what the ham was.
“They’re in such a hurry that he let out a cold one, so you think they’ll kill everyone.” - the non-commissioned officer said angrily and reproachfully.
“As soon as it flies past me, uncle, that cannonball,” said the young soldier, barely restraining laughter, with a huge mouth, “I froze.” Really, by God, I was so scared, it’s a disaster! - said this soldier, as if boasting that he was scared. And this one passed. Following him was a carriage, unlike any that had passed so far. It was a German steam-powered forshpan, loaded, it seemed, with a whole house; tied behind the forshpan that the German was carrying was a beautiful, motley cow with a huge udder. A woman was sitting on the feather beds with infant, an old woman and a young, purple-red, healthy German girl. Apparently, these evicted residents were allowed through with special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers turned to the women, and while the cart passed, moving step by step, all the soldiers' comments related only to two women. Almost the same smile of lewd thoughts about this woman was on all their faces.
- Look, the sausage is also removed!
“Sell mother,” another soldier said, emphasizing the last syllable, turning to the German, who, with his eyes downcast, walked angrily and fearfully with wide steps.
- How did you clean up! Damn it!
“If only you could stand with them, Fedotov.”
- You saw it, brother!
-Where are you going? - asked the infantry officer who was eating an apple, also half-smiling and looking at the beautiful girl.
The German, closing his eyes, showed that he did not understand.
“If you want, take it for yourself,” the officer said, handing the girl an apple. The girl smiled and took it. Nesvitsky, like everyone else on the bridge, did not take his eyes off the women until they passed. When they passed, the same soldiers walked again, with the same conversations, and finally everyone stopped. As often happens, at the exit of the bridge the horses in the company cart hesitated, and the entire crowd had to wait.
- And what do they become? There is no order! - said the soldiers. -Where are you going? Damn! There's no need to wait. Even worse, he will set the bridge on fire. “You see, they locked up the officer too,” they talked to different sides the crowds stopped, looking at each other, and kept pressing forward towards the exit.
Looking under the bridge at the waters of Ens, Nesvitsky suddenly heard a sound that was still new to him, quickly approaching... something big and something plopping into the water.
- Look where it's going! – the soldier standing close said sternly, looking back at the sound.
“He’s encouraging them to pass quickly,” said another restlessly.
The crowd moved again. Nesvitsky realized that it was the core.
- Hey, Cossack, give me the horse! - he said. - Well, you! stay away! step aside! way!
With great effort he reached the horse. Still screaming, he moved forward. The soldiers squeezed to give him way, but again they pressed on him again so that they crushed his leg, and those closest were not to blame, because they were pressed even harder.
- Nesvitsky! Nesvitsky! “You, madam!” a hoarse voice was heard from behind.
Nesvitsky looked around and saw, fifteen paces away, separated from him by a living mass of moving infantry, red, black, shaggy, with a cap on the back of his head and a brave mantle draped over his shoulder, Vaska Denisov.
“Tell them what to give to the devils,” he shouted. Denisov, apparently in a fit of ardor, shining and moving his coal-black eyes with inflamed whites and waving his unsheathed saber, which he held with a bare little hand as red as his face.
- Eh! Vasya! – Nesvitsky answered joyfully. -What are you talking about?
“Eskadg “on pg” you can’t go away,” shouted Vaska Denisov, angrily opening his white teeth, spurring his beautiful black, bloody Bedouin, who, blinking his ears from the bayonets he bumped into, snorting, spraying foam from the mouthpiece around him, ringing, he beat his hooves on the planks of the bridge and seemed ready to jump over the railings of the bridge if the rider would allow him. - What is this? like bugs! exactly like bugs! Pg "och... give dog" ogu!... Stay there! you're a wagon, chog"t! I'll kill you with a saber! - he shouted, actually taking out his saber and starting to wave it.
The soldiers with frightened faces pressed against each other, and Denisov joined Nesvitsky.
- Why aren’t you drunk today? - Nesvitsky said to Denisov when he drove up to him.
“And they won’t let you get drunk!” answered Vaska Denisov. “They’ve been dragging the regiment here and there all day long. It’s like that, it’s like that. Otherwise, who knows what it’s like!”
- What a dandy you are today! – Nesvitsky said, looking at his new mantle and saddle pad.
Denisov smiled, took out a handkerchief from his cart, which smelled of perfume, and stuck it in Nesvitsky’s nose.
- I can’t, I’m going to work! I got out, brushed my teeth and put on perfume.
The dignified figure of Nesvitsky, accompanied by a Cossack, and the determination of Denisov, waving his saber and shouting desperately, had such an effect that they squeezed onto the other side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Nesvitsky found a colonel at the exit, to whom he needed to convey the order, and, having fulfilled his instructions, went back.
Having cleared the road, Denisov stopped at the entrance to the bridge. Casually holding back the stallion rushing towards his own and kicking, he looked at the squadron moving towards him.
Transparent sounds of hooves were heard along the boards of the bridge, as if several horses were galloping, and the squadron, with officers in front, four in a row, stretched out along the bridge and began to emerge on the other side.
The stopped infantry soldiers, crowding in the trampled mud near the bridge, looked at the clean, dapper hussars marching orderly past them with that special unfriendly feeling of alienation and ridicule that is usually encountered in various branches of the military.
- Smart guys! If only it were on Podnovinskoe!
- What good are they? They only drive for show! - said another.
- Infantry, don't dust! - the hussar joked, under which the horse, playing, splashed mud at the infantryman.
“If I had driven you through two marches with your backpack, the laces would have been worn out,” the infantryman said, wiping the dirt from his face with his sleeve; - otherwise it’s not a person, but a bird sitting!
“If only I could put you on a horse, Zikin, if you were agile,” the corporal joked about the thin soldier, bent over from the weight of his backpack.
“Take the club between your legs, and you’ll have a horse,” responded the hussar.
The rest of the infantry hurried across the bridge, forming a funnel at the entrance. Finally, all the carts passed, the crush became less, and the last battalion entered the bridge. Only the hussars of Denisov's squadron remained on the other side of the bridge against the enemy. The enemy, visible in the distance from the opposite mountain, from below, from the bridge, was not yet visible, since from the hollow along which the river flowed, the horizon ended at the opposite elevation no more than half a mile away. Ahead there was a desert, along which here and there groups of our traveling Cossacks were moving. Suddenly, on the opposite hill of the road, troops in blue hoods and artillery appeared. These were the French. The Cossack patrol trotted away downhill. All the officers and men of Denisov’s squadron, although they tried to talk about outsiders and look around, did not stop thinking only about what was there on the mountain, and constantly peered at the spots on the horizon, which they recognized as enemy troops. The weather cleared again in the afternoon, the sun set brightly over the Danube and the dark mountains surrounding it. It was quiet, and from that mountain the sounds of horns and screams of the enemy could occasionally be heard. There was no one between the squadron and the enemies, except for small patrols. An empty space, three hundred fathoms, separated them from him. The enemy stopped shooting, and the more clearly one felt that strict, menacing, impregnable and elusive line that separates the two enemy troops.
“One step beyond this line, reminiscent of the line separating the living from the dead, and - the unknown of suffering and death. So what's there? who's there? there, beyond this field, and the tree, and the roof illuminated by the sun? Nobody knows, and I want to know; and it’s scary to cross this line, and you want to cross it; and you know that sooner or later you will have to cross it and find out what is there on the other side of the line, just as it is inevitable to find out what is there on the other side of death. And he himself is strong, healthy, cheerful and irritated, and surrounded by such healthy and irritably animated people.” So, even if he doesn’t think, every person who is in sight of the enemy feels it, and this feeling gives a special shine and joyful sharpness of impressions to everything that happens in these minutes.
I contacted US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a request to introduce a number of personal sanctions against these people, along with a list of names.
Initially, the list contained 60 names of officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Federal Tax Service, the Arbitration Court, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Federal Penitentiary Service, as well as a brief description of the role of each of these individuals in the Hermitage Capital case and in the prosecution of Sergei Magnitsky. Later, when various regulations were adopted in different countries based on the initiatives of Cardin and others, the number of people in them sometimes differed from the original list.
Background
In 2007, 5.4 billion rubles were stolen from the Russian budget, which is considered the largest single theft of funds from the Russian state budget in history. This crime was first discovered by employees of the firm Firestone Duncan, which served the legal interests of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, among whom were Eduard Khairetdinov, Vladimir Pastukhov, Jamison Firestone and Sergei Magnitsky. They initiated an investigation into the theft of budget funds, within the framework of which the list of participants in the crime became obvious, including several dozen employees of various Russian executive authorities.
On November 24, 2008, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested on charges of helping the head of the Hermitage Capital Management fund, William Browder, to evade taxes. After 11 months of pre-trial detention, Sergei died in the hospital of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Moscow. The initiator of his arrest and the investigator in his case turned out to be the key participants in the theft uncovered by Sergei and his colleagues.
Legislative recognition of the list
In the American Congress, the initiative of Cardin and McCovern was considered under the name English Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 . The future law was drafted in such a way that the US executive authorities would have the ability to add and remove people from the “List...” at any time: it “will be open for additions, but closed to the public.” (unavailable link since 07/03/2018).
In September 2012, it became known that Great Britain had already put its “Magnitsky Act” into effect. At the same time, it became known that the introduction within the countries of sanctions provided for by the Magnitsky Act was proposed by deputies from Sweden and the Netherlands. In addition to the United States and Great Britain, the authorities of Canada, Poland and Estonia spoke at various times about their readiness to join sanctions against Sergei’s killers.
- Treating Bogatyrev, suspected of murdering Umar Israilov (former bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov).
- Kazbek Dukuzov, suspected of murdering the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes, Paul Klebnikov, in Moscow.
In April 2014, the European Parliament adopted another resolution - a ban on entry into EU countries and the freezing of European assets (if any) of 32 individuals who, according to European deputies, are directly responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
In January 2017, the list included:
On December 20, 2017, Ramzan Kadyrov was added to the list, as well as the head of the Argun police department, Ayub Kataev, who was called involved in the persecution and torture of gays in Chechnya in 2017. Also on the list were certain Yulia Mayorova, Andrey Pavlov, Alexey Sheshenya.
On December 21, the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, Artyom Chaika, was added to the list with the wording for using his father’s position to unfairly win government contracts, obtain government assets and to influence business competitors.
Notes
- Benjamin L. Cardin, Alcee L. Hastings. CARDIN URGES VISA BAN FOR RUSSIAN OFFICIALS CONNECTED TO ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWYER’S DEATH. US Government Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (26 April 2010). Retrieved December 29, 2012.
