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The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov responded to the news about the inclusion of him in the closed part of the Magnitsky List with an ironic remark that he had already handed over a ticket to the United States and would not take him anymore. “I just learned from the journalists that I may have been in some“ Magnitsky list, ”RIA Novosti reports Kadyrov’s words.“ I, as I heard this information, passed the ticket to the USA and will never take it back. ” The head of Chechnya added that "he did not sleep in the morning, since he heard this information."

Earlier, Kadyrov reminded, the American authorities did not allow his horse to the country, which he sent to the races. “After that, my horse began to get sick and still suffers because of this, since she was preparing for jumps for three months,” the head of Chechnya said with a smile.

Kadyrov said he did not care if he was included in the Magnitsky list. “I have never had accounts in America, I did not deal with business, and if we talk about development, the best country for this is Russia,” he said. “I am proud that I am a Russian that is objectionable to America.” Meanwhile, the head of Chechnya added, the United States "is engaged in lawlessness around the world."

“I said that I had handed over a ticket. I would never have bought a ticket to America, even if I haven’t been on this list,” Kadyrov concluded.

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Kadyrov was included in the closed part of the Magnitsky List. The defendants in this part of the list were subjected only to visa rather than financial sanctions. On the eve of the US Department of Finance, a list of 18 surnames released. The rest of the list, according to the newspaper, have such an influence in Russia that the Barack Obama administration did not include them in the public part of the register. There they fear sanctions against occupying the equally high position of American officials, in particular congressmen and senators.

Of the 18 defendants in the published “Magnitsky List” 16 are officials and security officials directly involved in the death of the Hermitage Capital Foundation, and two persons accused of other crimes. All persons on the list will be prohibited from entering the United States, and their assets in the banks of the United States will be frozen.

Among the defendants in the list are investigators Pavel Karpov and Artem Kuznetsov, judges of the Tver District Court of Moscow Alexei Krivoruchko, Elena Stashin and Svetlana Ukhnaleva, Judge of the Moscow City Court Sergey Podopigorov, official of the Federal Tax Service Olga Stepanova.

The first version of the Magnitsky List, prepared in 2010, included 60 names. Later, Congressman James McGoven proposed expanding it to 280 people. In his version, the entire leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office, headed by Yuri Chaika, the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, the head of the FSB economic security department, Viktor Voronin, senior employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penitentiary Service, fell into the list. The American NGOs also sent their proposals to the State Department for the "Magnitsky list". According to The Cable, among the candidates were the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and former press Minister Mikhail Lesin.

On Saturday Day, the Russian Foreign Ministry in response to the publication of the Magnitsky List published a list of US all -round citizens. In the Russian stoplist , as in the American one, 18 people are included. Of these, four, including the former head of the apparatus of Vice President David Eddington, form the "list of Guantanamo", the remaining 14 - "persons involved in violations of the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens abroad."

In the commentary of the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Alexander Lukashevich, the Magnitsky Law is called the "absurd", and the list published by the US administration is "formed arbitrarily." “Our fundamental assessment of this unfriendly step is well known: under the pressure of Russophobic -tuned members of the US Congress, a strong blow was struck for bilateral relations and mutual trust,” Lukashevich said. “It would be time to finally realize politicians in Washington that to build relations with such a country as Russia, in the spirit of mentor and undeniable dictatorship inconsistent.”