On Wednesday night, Canada’s lower house of Parliament voted unanimously to approve its own version of the Magnitsky Act, the 2012 U.S. law sanctioning Russian officials involved in human rights abuses. That law has become a famously radioactive issue in U.S.-Russian relations, first triggering a retaliatory ban on American adoptions of Russian children, and recently figuring into the Trump-Russia drama after the news broke that Donald Trump Jr. had met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who has been lobbying to overturn the measure.The Veselnitskaya affair is only the most famous example of Russia’s concerted campaign to repeal or undermine …read more
Source: The American Interest
