President Biden said last week that he was “looking at a whole number of options” to make good on his 2021 warning to Vladimir Putin that Russia would face “devastating” consequences if Aleksei Navalny were to die in prison.
As several close Russia watchers told me, however, there’s much more to be done about the first.
Browder is best known as the moving force behind the Magnitsky Acts, which put sanctions on Russian officials implicated in corruption and other abuses.
And it’s been resisted by U.S. government officials who fear that it exceeds what American law allows and would encourage a flight from dollar assets.
As for the flight-from-the-dollar argument, it might otherwise be persuasive if the need to save Ukraine and punish Russia weren’t more urgent.
Persons:
Biden, Vladimir Putin, Aleksei Navalny, Putin, ” Bill Browder, Browder, it’s, Larry Tribe, Kaplan, Fink
Organizations:
Finances, Putin, U.S, Harvard, Heckler, Democracy
Locations:
Russia, Ukraine