Magnitsky Act.2

Nikolaj Malishevskij, 18 dicembre 2012

Theoretically, the «Sergei Magnitsky Rule of the Law of Accountability Act», became law in the United States, imposing personal sanctions against those allegedly responsible for detention, abuse , death and other serious violations of human rights in Russia. In practice it was hastily adopted to replace the so-called Jackson-Vanik amendment, which had turned into a burden for U.S. companies, preparing to enter the Russian market which has already joined the WTO... The swiftness of organization in which the Americans are well-versed in terms of the practices of the WTO, and gave them a competitive advantage over Russian entrepreneurs who are still adapting to the new conditions.

Experts have already thrown to the media several options for Russia  in response to the allegedly unexpected and unfriendly acts from the U.S. For example, the suspension of the export of beef and pork from the United States (the formal pretext being that the meat contains the very harmful additive ractopamine which is used extensively by the Americans to build muscle on animals, and is banned in 160 countries, including China). One can say that beyond the threat to «meat» exports, which is estimated annually at $ 500 million, it may prevent the U.S. Senate approving a bill to expand bilateral trade and strike a blow against the futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Or temporarily «freeze» the activities of the structures of the Presidential Commission, established in 2009, between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama and includes over two dozen working groups covering all the main areas of cooperation between Russia and the U.S., science, energy, anti-terrorism, etc.

I must say, these options are not only asymmetrical, but also can create unnecessary problems inside Russia (in the stopping of exports of harmful beef, it is not necessary to link it to human rights). The answer to the «Magnitsky Act» can only be symmetrical. This, incidentally, has already been said by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said that the answer to the enactment of the law «will be balanced and include a ban on the entry into Russia of U.S. citizens, which the Russian side believe to be guilty of actual human rights violations».

Unfortunately, until a clear answer to the question is formulated in respect of which U.S. citizens are responsible for the detention, abuse, death, and other gross violations of human rights, Russia should impose personal sanctions. Meanwhile, everything is on the table.

According to official data, over the last decade, U.S. citizens have killed 19 children adopted from Russia (also several more children have died allegedly as a result of disease and accidents). According to non-profit organizations that monitor the deaths of Russian children in American families, this figure is understated by more than half. Also it does not include children who are «lucky» and which, after the Americans throw them out, Russian-speaking authorities on Children's Rights literally stated the following: «The boy is healthy, there are no signs of injuries, there are only a few old scars».

In many of the cases where children from Russia were brutally murdered or maimed (more than 40 people), the American courts and lawyers passed unduly lenient sentences against their citizens - murderers and sadists like the Leschinsky couple from Colorado, who for 4 years abused their adopted daughters from Russia. There are clear examples, such as the case of Daniil Bukharov (American Jessica Beagley participated in talk shows and even leaked online videos showing footage of her abusing her 7 year old child) and of Vanya Skorobogatov (deemed to have died from «complications from a traumatic brain injury,» despite that on the child's body, doctors counted more than 80 injuries, more than 20 of them to the head, and also during the examination of the body, it turned out that the child was malnourished, was utterly exhausted and did not receive any medical care, his adoptive «father,» said Vanya «just fell and hit his head»).

The operation in the U.S. of «concentration camps» for Russian children is a deeply kept secret. Their existence is carefully concealed. But some things have yet been made public. For example, the so-called ranch for abandoned children «Ranch for kids» (owned by Joyce Sterkel in Montana), is as far away as possible from the outside world and is located at the Canadian border, contains dozens of children from Russia. The owner of «Ranch for Kids» failed to submit accurate data to licensing inspectors (J. Sterkel was deprived of a license a few years ago) about just how many children have been kept at the ranch during the time of its operation.

Regarding the conditions described eloquently by an escaped 9-year old Russian girl, in statements by the district attorney claimed that the children were exposed to violence. According to the words of a representative of the American Themis, Lady of Justice, despite all this, the owner of the ranch «manages to resolve all these questions».

It is significant that not all such private 'colonies' contain children abandoned by American adoptive parents. Some come here immediately after adoption. Some are still listed on the documents as «happily living in foster care». Judging by the way the U.S. government hides the existence of such children «in storage»; they know the answer to the question: can the U.S. government in fact be an honest partner with Russia, and acknowledge the failure of a significant number of American adoptive parents. Although every effort is made to hide the true state of affairs from the Russian side, this is not the only reason.

In the U.S., «adoption» of children from Russia has long since become a very profitable business. Numerous intermediaries make many millions of dollars out of Russian children, and have their own lobby in the government and the media, assuring citizens that «it is impossible to find cheaper white children».

It is the case, that in the United States (where officially there are registered more than 200,000 patients waiting for years for donor organs from children and are willing to pay from 200 thousand dollars for each «dismantled» part from a child), there are over 100 thousand children, mostly orphans, sent for international adoption. It is worth mentioning last year's official recognition by the Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, who said that 1260 «foster» children from Russia that went «missing» in recent years, had been found in private hospitals for organ transplants.

That is why the symmetrical and fair Russian answer to the American «Magnitsky Act» should be a conviction and admission of guilt for: a) sadists from the U.S., that abuse children from Russia and b) the American judges and others «in law enforcement» who do not apply justice to these rapists and murderers…