In Brief: Putin's Prisoners (with Bill Browder)

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Few people know more about Vladimir Putin than Bill Browder. Browder, an investor and political activist, is the architect of the Magnitsky Act, which allows the US government to sanction foreign nationals who have perpetrated human rights abuses. One of Browder’s key allies in the passage of the Magnitsky Act was a fellow activist named Vladimir Kara-Murza. Kara-Murza is now imprisoned in a Russian jail. Browder joins Preet to discuss Kara-Murza’s case and Putin’s war on his political opponents. References & Supplemental Materials: Bill Browder, “My Friend Vladimir Kara-Murza Is the Political Prisoner Putin Fears Most,” TIME, 6/10/23 S.712 — Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act Bill Browder, “Freezing Order,” Simon & Schuster, 2021 Stay Tuned in Brief is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters@cafe.com, or leave a voicemail at 669-247-7338. For analysis of recent legal news, try the CAFE Insider membership for just $1 for one month: cafe.com/insider. Check out other CAFE shows Now & Then and Up Against the Mob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0	From Cafe in the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Stay Tuned in Brief. I'm Pripyraara.
0:54.0	Long time listeners of the show will be very familiar with today's guest, my friend Bill Browder.
1:00.0	Bill was once the largest foreign investor in Russia, until he was expelled from the country in 2005 for speaking out against corruption and about the murder of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
1:11.0	He since become one of Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics and targets.
1:15.0	He was the driving force behind the 2012 passage of the Magnitsky Act, the law that allows the US government to sanction foreign nationals
1:23.0	who have engaged in human rights abuses.
1:25.0	Bill joined me in April of last year to discuss his latest book, Freezing Order, a true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath.
1:34.0	But a lot has happened in the years since we last spoke.
1:37.0	Putin has continued to attack and jail his political critics, including the activist and opposition leader Vladimir Karamurza, and Bill has continued to speak out as well.
1:47.0	Bill, welcome back to the show. Great to be here, a brief.
1:50.0	So let's start with a couple of things.
1:53.0	Tell our listeners if they don't know who was Vladimir Karamurza and how did you first meet him.
1:59.0	So since Putin and his regime killed my lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, I've been, I've gave up my life as a businessman and I've been on a campaign to get justice for Sergei.
2:12.0	That campaign has run over 13 years.
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