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In the Kremlin, fussed and nervous. Still! There are many reasons - the upcoming end of Assad’s friend in Syria, the protest movement in Russia, football grief in Poland, but the most important thing is the Magnitsky law in the United States. This is serious. This is very serious because it affects the personal interests of the Kremlin inhabitants and their immediate environment. You can talk about the position on Syria with metal intonations with a diplomatically set voice, about protest movement - with irony and disgust, about football - to whine that we are again nowhere to be issued, but the Magnitsky law has to be fully released, menacingly and unequivocally.

Last Friday, a severe statement at the address of the US Congress was made by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov: "If such a glaring effect occurs, the reaction of Moscow will be comprehensive, intact and extremely strict." On Sunday, the threats of an “adequate” response was made by the assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov. “It is clear to everyone that retaliatory measures that are inevitable, but they would like to avoid them,” the representative of Putin noted with the spontaneity of the bazaar merchant.

Yuri Ushakov called the consideration of the bill "a demonstrative anti -Russian step." Here, in fact, the dog is buried. The Law of Magnitsky is clearly anti -Kremlevsky, but not anti -Russian. Officials, of course, love to associate themselves immediately with all of Russia, consider their interests to be national, and damage to themselves, loved, call the humiliation of the state. But all this, in the end, is their personal problems of self -identification. In addition to themselves, in Russia and in the world around them, everyone perfectly understands that officials and country are not the same thing.

Unfortunately, Russia will not be particularly particularly beneficial from the law of Magnitsky. Russia is large, and human rights are trampled in it hourly and everywhere. Only the most “well -deserved” will fall under the law. Which, however, is also not bad. After all, when the offender is sentenced to punishment, no one thinks that all crime on this will instantly end. You just have to be responsible for the deed. So it is here: abuse and falsification in law enforcement agencies will not run out, but whoever comes across will be punished. It is only a pity that by the American Congress, not the domestic femid.

However, in one I am ready to completely agree with Ushakov. "In contacts with the administration [US] at all levels, we harshly raise the question of the unacceptability of the" exchange "of the amendment [Jackson -Vennik] to the anti -Russian law named after Sergey Magnitsky," he said. In fact, why are these ambiguous exchange? Magnitsky’s law must be adopted, and the amendment of Jackson-Vanika should be left. Let him live and keep in fear of lovers to close his countries with an "iron curtain." Now, by the way, the amendment is valid against North Korea and Cuba. For what merits to free these communist dictatorships from a well -deserved punishment? Just because the Kremlin wants so much?

By the way, it should be noted that the unthinkable confusion, inspired by Kremlin propaganda, has become very widespread. This was even a BBC, which reported in the news feed that the amendment of Jackson-Vanik provided for restrictions on trade with the USSR. This is a generally accepted error. The amendment of Jackson-Vanik prescribes trade restrictions on states that limit the free emigration of their citizens. Neither about the USSR, nor even about Russia there is not a single word. Like any other countries. Moreover, the amendment is enforced in relation to those by other states by decree of the US President and its own decree is canceled.

With regard to our country, the amendment of Jackson-Vannik has not been valid for more than 20 years, since with the freedom of leaving the country we have more or less safe. If the Kremlin is so persistently achieved by the abolition of this amendment inactive against us, it means that he needs a small, albeit empty, foreign policy victory, or, more likely, he plans to restrict departure from the country. First, for some (for example, non -payers of fines or alimony), then for politically unreliable and under operational supervision, then for everyone. They will leave a free exit only for themselves.

And then here you are - the Magnitsky law! And they will not be! Here is an ambush. There is why nervous and fantasize about adequate measures. We will arrest all the American accounts in Sberbank, we will not let them relax on the fashionable beaches of Anapa, and we will ban investment in our industry. That's what they will dance!

If you leave the Kremlin ridiculous plans for the percentage comedom for the enquest for the reprisal, it should be noted that the amendment of the Jackson -Vennik is to cancel, alas, few tools for influencing authoritarian and dictatorial regimes. Moreover, tools that have established themselves in the best way. These tools must be increased, adding one to another, and not exchange one to another, as Mr. Ushakov correctly remarked. Even if the tool is not used at all today, let it lie for itself, covered with attic dust, until the unfortunate day when it suddenly needs it again.