# Russia ### Murder of Sergey Magnitsky by [[Putin]] https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1460616114015281160?t=pLhjfbL71nTraTADBWlm5w&s=19 12 years ago today, Sergei Magnitsky was murdered by the Putin regime for exposing a massive corruption scheme. The pain of his death still sits with me as intensely as the day I leaned of it. But he does have a huge legacy with the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 33 countries https://t.co/qwfOxClT8u ### "Establishment Democrats and their [[Russia]] obsession" ![[20211117_115821.jpg]] Is knowledge of the Russian disinformation campaigns an establishment characteristic? - Yes - but everything relating to foreign policy is almost by definition carried out by the establishment - Whether something is part of the establishment does not make it inherently good or bad - The establishment can be bad, but it can also be good - don't be blinded by ideological pressures ### Putino poisoned Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 To my fellow Americans now praising Putin, please remember - 1 - this is Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin in 2004 as he ran against the pro-Russian candidate for president. ![[20220224_010550.jpg]] https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496435802913583112?t=o7OXp3Nyie5FwMebJ5zcgA&s=19 And many moce - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/i/status/1496435802913583112) by [@jimsciutto](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto) on [[February 23rd, 2022]]: - To my fellow Americans now praising Putin, please remember - 1 - this is Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin in 2004 as he ran against the pro-Russian candidate for president. [pic.twitter.com/87B8U15baa](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496435802913583112/photo/1) - 2/ These are some of the dozens of Ukrainians shot and killed as they protested in the Maidan against the corrupt Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych [pic.twitter.com/XtrGFT7LYF](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496436360311640066/photo/1) - 3/ These are the so-called “little green men”, Russian soldiers with their insignia removed, who took over sovereign Ukrainian territory in Crimea in 2014 in Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine. [pic.twitter.com/3F5LLq49SP](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496437527523336195/photo/1) - 4/ This is what remained of MH17 after a Russian-supplied missile fired from separatist-controlled territory shot it down in July 2014. All 298 passengers and crew including numerous children were killed. [pic.twitter.com/Mvq4KEPh6B](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496439283431149570/photo/1) - 5/ This is one of many election sites burned down by pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. Russia has a habit of interfering in elections it doesn’t think it will win fairly. [pic.twitter.com/UilUe4lM6Q](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496448333027680257/photo/1) - 6/ To the party of “elections have consequences”, this is Kyiv, capital of a Ukraine that has twice-in-a-row elected president seeking closer relations with the West and more, not less, independence from Moscow [pic.twitter.com/E6vvpaOMRO](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496450499977314304/photo/1) - 7/ There is far more. Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned to death with radioactive polonium in a London hotel cafe by two Russian operatives, one of whom went on to serve in the Russian Duma. He’s still serving there. [pic.twitter.com/4zgFsGzgAu](https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1496507002096427009/photo/1)