In Tit-for-Tat, Russia Wants to Blacklist Foreigners

With the United States considering sanctions on Russian officials implicated in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Foreign Ministry has turned to the State Duma with a blacklist of its own. But instead of punishing other countries for human rights abuses against their own citizens, the ministry would blacklist foreigners deemed to have violated the rights of Russian citizens. Under a bill submitted to the Duma on Tuesday, blacklisted foreigners […]