WASHINGTON, April 12 (RIA Novosti) - The United States on Friday released the names of 18 Russian officials to be slapped with visa and financial sanctions under the controversial Magnitsky Act, which punishes individuals Washington deems complicit in human rights abuses.
No senior federal Russian officials were included in the list published Friday on the website of the US Treasury Department.
Several of the officials named are those that have been implicated by officials in the West and Russian rights activists in the 2009 death of Russian whistleblowing tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, after whom the US law is named.
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