Opinion: Congress makes a move against Russia’s worst human rights abuser
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, right, looks at a military vehicle in Gudermes, east of Chechen regional capital Grozny, southern Russia, in February.
In December 2017, the Treasury Department sanctioned Kadyrov as a gross human rights abuser under the Magnitsky Act. Explaining its decision, the Treasury Department stated that “Kadyrov oversees an administration involved in disappearances and extrajudicial killings” and that “one of Kadyrov’s political opponents was believed to have been murdered at Kadyrov’s direction.”
The moves by Western countries to counter Kadyrov’s impunity with visa and financial sanctions had profound symbolic importance. Their practical effect, however, was limited by the fact that Kadyrov had no interests and no presence in the democracies of Europe and North America.
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