Russian attorney Nikolai Gorokhov was thrown out of the window of his fourth floor apartment in Moscow today, just before he was set to testify on behalf of Vladimir Putin’s longtime foe Sergei Magnitsky tomorrow. Magnitsky was murdered eight years ago but Putin has him posthumously on trial anyway, in an apparent attempt at sabotaging the “Magnitsky Act” which was named after him. And as it turns out, the Magnitsky Act has direct ties to Mar-a-Lago and Donald Trump. Nikolai Gorokhov has somehow survived his steep fall today, and is currently in intensive care. As we reported an hour ago, Gorokhov was a key witness in the New York based investigation into Russian financial crimes led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was summarily fired by Donald Trump just days ago. But the Kremlin’s primary motivation for wanting Gorokhov dead may be more directly tied to the Magnitsky Act. Sergei Magnitsky’s murder in 2009 led to the passing of the Magnitsky Act in the United States in 2012, which placed automatic sanctions on any Russian officials who killed any Russian citizen for political reasons. Those sanctions have gone on to cost Vladimir Putin and his allies as much as $80 billion per year (source: Defend Democracy). If Donald Trump gets the Magnitsky Act repealed, the Kremlin will be able to cash in immediately. As such, the current posthumous criminal trial against Magnitsky appears to be an attempt at smearing his legacy and laying the groundwork for making the Magnitsky Act more easily repealed by Trump. But Trump has a much more direct personal connection to the Magnitsky Act. http://www.palmerreport.com/news/ru...adimir-putin-foe-donald-trump-connected/2009/
Somewhere Hillary Clinton is laughing, shaking her head, and thinking, "amateurs" That's not how you kill someone that's going to testify against you.
I was hardly ever a fan of Bush (especially after he invaded Iraq), but even he wasn't as tyrannical as Putin is. The man's a dictator.
I'll give credit where it's due. This is actually somewhat intriguing. Nice work liberals, you may have actually found something of substance thats not just another boy who cried wolf jerk-fest. Keep digging you've actually got my attention.
Former Russian MP shot dead in Kiev, Ukraine A former Russian MP has been shot and killed in the centre of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in what the Ukrainian president described as an "act of state terrorism" by Russia. Denis Voronenkov, who testified to Ukrainian investigators and criticsed Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea, was shot dead by an unidentified gunman near the entrance of an upscale hotel. The attacker also wounded Mr Voronenkov's bodyguard, who fired back and wounded the gunman. Both have been hospitalised. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the killing "clearly shows the handwriting of Russian special services shown repeatedly in various European capitals in the past." In a statement released by his spokesman, Svyatoslav Tsegolko, Mr Poroshenko described the victim as a key witness who gave testimony about "Russian aggression" to the Ukrainian authorities. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...p-shot-dead-ukraine-kiev-killed-a7645436.html
One of my favorite stories of Russian political machinations is Stalin's decision on the fate of Boris Pasternak, the Nobel winning author of Dr. Zhivago. The only thing that kept Pasternak alive was a letter he sent Stalin begging for clemency for a friend of his. Stalin said, "we can't kill this guy.... he's a saint!" So he left Pasternak but murdered the friend, and millions of other people. That's who Putin sees as a hero and I am sure he has no compunctions about throwing all sorts of people out of windows. Probably has his own personal Lavrentiy Beria for the task....
