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The reason is because he's putin's best friend from childhood, the godfather of putin's daughter and the person who introduced putin to his wife. he's a person who holds money for vladimir putin. so that's supposition based on evidence and intuition, that's not entirely fact—based. it's notjust my evidence and intuition. it's the evidence and intuition of the united states government who sanctioned him. and i believe the european union did the same. this is the mafia we're talking about. they don't have, you know, corporate records like we do where you can go in and prove things. you have to...

To be able to prove that he's rich. and so, he has what i call armshake or handshake agreements with these individuals who are basically trustees holding this money on trust for him. but as you, bill browder, are not in the room when these armshake and handshakes take place, how do you know that they do indeed result in vast amounts of putin money being held in the name of other people? well, a lot of different lea ks have come out since all these agreements were made. so, for example, there's a famous anti—corruption activist in russia, alexei navalny. he did an investigation into putin's $...

But just to stick with the sanctions as they currently exist, you did write this a few weeks ago. you did write, "they're more extreme than i ever imagined, even more than perhaps i would have asked for based on what i thought the west was capable of." and you seem there to be particularly focused on the measures taken against a host of so—called oligarchs, these huge multibillionaire businessmen who have had long association with vladimir putin. do you think you overestimated the impact the sanctions on the oligarchs would have? well, so, first of all, why are oligarchs important? the oliga...

Re: The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial “Another View: Hold Putin to account for war crimes” (April 8): The Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in itself, a war crime. Any war of aggression is a “crime against peace” as embodied in Nuremberg Principle VI. It also appears Russian forces have engaged in various war crimes including […]

Chemical weapons against the defenders of maria pol. we take this as seriously as possible. i want to remind the world's leaders that the possible use of chemical weapons by the russian military has already been discussed. —— mariupol. and britain's foreign secretary liz truss earlier posted on twitter to say there are "reports that russian forces may have used chemical agents in an attack on the people of mariupol". she says "we are working urgently with partners to verify details" and that "any use of such weapons would be a callous escalation in this conflict". she says the uk governmen...