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His efforts to lobby Canadian policy-makers are being supported by Kara-Murza’s U.S.-based wife, Evgenia, and bestselling author and financier, Bill Browder, who has become Putin’s nemesis by lobbying for Magnitsky Act sanctions that have been adopted in 35 countries. The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit. Get NP Platformed delivered to your inbox weekdays by 4 p.m. ET.
Sharansky served nine years in the gulag until he was released by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. Cotler said he spoke to the late Soviet leader about the case and Gorbachev said he had never heard of Sharansky until he came to Canada as agriculture minister in 1983 and encountered a demonstration on Parliament Hill urging his release.Article content
It seems scarcely believable that anyone would remain in Russia voluntarily, having been poisoned twice and having seen their mentor gunned down. Cotler, the Kara-Murzas and Browder are a manifestation of what Winston Churchill called “the little mouse of thought” that appears in a room and throws “even the mightiest potentates” into panic.
But Browder said that number is “laughable”, compared to the Russian money thought to be in Canada. “My own experience with the RCMP was that we found money connected to Magnitsky’s murder here and reported it and gave evidence. But they refused to open a proper criminal investigation, which is different than in other countries,” he said.
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