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Up North: Nemtsov says the adoption of the European Union’s Magnitsky Law would be a blow to the criminal regime

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A woman sews with a sewing machine as she watches a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, held in Moscow, in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Dec. 18, 2014.
Photo by AFP

In principle, the Magnitsky Law would be

unnecessary if a truly independent judiciary and law enforcement

agencies that actually enforced the law existed in Russia, and if

thieves and criminals were actually punished for their actions.

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