Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives November 2013 No. 8 Vol. 11
Heritage Foundation

Human Rights in Russia

The Magnitsky Act and U.S.−Russia Relations

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Heritage Foundation

Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow

The Heritage Foundation is a conservative research and educational institution founded in 1973. Ariel Cohen is a senior research fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy with the Heritage Foundation. The following is excerpted from June 13, 2013, testimony before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “A Dangerous Slide Backwards: Russia’s Deteriorating Human Rights Situation.”   Russia has missed its historic opportunity to build a modern, law-based society and a democratic system of government since the collapse of communism in 1991. This is for several reasons. First of all, remnants of the Communist Party and the…

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