Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Sergei Magnitsky

Freezing Order by Bill Browder review – life as a target of Putin

This incredible account of being framed by the Russian authorities – and the deadly fallout from fighting back – reads like a thriller

The Guardian - UK

Calls for US to issue visa bans for UK lawyers enabling Russian oligarchs

Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder says ‘whole class of British lawyers’ making money out of lawsuits against journalists, dissidents and whistleblowers

The Guardian - UK

Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder feared Trump would hand him over to Putin after Helsinki comments

US-born British businessman behind the Magnitsky Act was horrified when Trump publicly entertained idea of handing him over to Russia

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Vladimir Putin: risk-taker who is gambling his country's future

In the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin was known to a member of the city’s legislature, Viktor Talanov. A psychologist by profession, Talanov prepared a study of Putin in which he concluded that one of his subject’s fundamental psychological characteristics was a very…

The Conversation

Amid invasion of Ukraine, Australian government announces Magnitsky-style list to target corrupt Russians

Ramping up sanctions on Russian individuals amid the nation's war on Ukraine, Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister announces a list that will see sanctions imposed on almost 40 Russians.

ABC News

House bids farewell to Kimberley Kitching

The prime minister and opposition leader have led House tributes to the late Labor senator Kimberley Kitching who recently died from a suspected heart attack.

AAP

First Russians sanctioned under Magnitsky

Australia has issued the first tranche of sanctions under its Magnitsky-style sanctions act which allows the targeting of individuals for human rights abuses.

AAP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

16 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways

A number of high profile critics of Vladimir Putin have died in violent or mysterious circumstances. This includes Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in London after drinking a laced cup of tea

Daily Mirror

US Targets Russians over Ukraine Invasion, Human Rights Violations

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian military leaders and people it accused of being connected to human rights violations while slapping fresh measures on Moscow's close ally Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. They were the latest sanctions imposed on Moscow since Russian forces invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine: why the sanctions won't topple Putin

Russia knows sanctions. In 2009, the death of Moscow anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody motivated Bill Browder, an entrepreneur who used to work in Russia and employ him, to lobby the US government to introduce sanctions against Russia.

The Conversation

The US doesn't need to wait for an invasion to impose sanctions on Russia – it could invoke the Magnitsky Act now

As Russian military forces have deployed at the Ukraine border, U.S. politicians have been weighing new sanctions to deter an invasion.

The Conversation

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

House of Representatives

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.