Russian rights activists to draft list of violators to help U.S

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(Reuters) - Russian rights activists said on Monday they would draft a list of the country's most flagrant human rights violators to help the United States identify individuals it could systematically deny U.S. visas under a new law. U.S. President Barack Obama infuriated Moscow on Friday when he signed legislation to "name and shame" Russian rights violators, a move Russian President Vladimir Putin called an insult. Washington named the new law after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer working for a Western private equity firm who died in a Russian jail in 2009. The legislation also obliges U. ...




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