The Case of Sergei Magnitsky Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions

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The story of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolize the brutal persecution of whistleblowers in Russia. Ten years after his death, inconsistencies in Magnitsky's story suggest he may not have been the hero many people -- and Western governments -- believed him to be.

There's a tombstone in northeastern Moscow that bears the portrait of a man with a friendly yet somewhat uneasy smile. His name is Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky. He was born in April 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine, and died in November 2009 in Moscow. To this day, 10 years after the fact, the circumstances of his death in a Russian pretrial detention facility remain unclear.

There are two versions of what happened to Magnitsky. The more well-known version has all the makings of a conspiracy thriller. It's been repeated in thousands of articles, TV interviews and in parliamentary hearings. In this version of the story, the man from the Moscow cemetery fought nobly against a corrupt system and was murdered for it.

The other version is more complicated. In it, nobody is a hero.
The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International

It's an interesting article.

 

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In other words: how fake news are made, how US Congress put sanctions on Russia based on the only one person claiming he’s #1Putin’s enemy :

Der Spiegel and German journalists: Browder, the Magnistky myth and the failure of the media

The decline from the "Saying something is", the founder Rudolf Augstein had predicted to the propaganda infotainment Gazette has been in progress for at least two decades: If the narrative is right, the facts are second-rate. This was, for example, and still applies, where the coup in Ukraine in 2014, the crash of the MH 17 and the annexation of the Crimea and the "mirror" with anti-Russian stories in the style of coldest "cold War propaganda excelled.

Yes, that's the way to do it when it comes to saving the big narrative you've been selling as news for years.
"The Magnitsky case: how true is the history on which the US sanctions against Russia are based? - With his statements on the death of a whistleblower Bill Browder brought the Americans against Putin. But his portrayal is full of contradictions. "

And this is not new at all, but has been known for years - but not for readers of the "Spiegel" and other self-proclaimed quality media, the fake story of hedge fund manager Browder, his lawyer and accountant Magnitsky was murdered by "Putin's henchmen" in prison, prayed up and down. In the US, where the law on sanctions against Russia was called "Magnitsky Act", and also in Europe, where governments leapt to the sanctions platoon without any further questions and Bill Browder celebrating himself as "Putin's Public Enemy No.1" and human rights activist could let.

That he is in truth a scammer and perfidious storyteller, discovered as one of the first of the Russian director Andrei Nekrasov, the over the storyteller Browder a detailed documentary film "The Magnistky Act. Behind the Scenes " . Nekrasov had with the blessing and on behalf Browders started in 2010 with the film that was to show the story of the murder of Magnistky, but his research then in 2015 encountered numerous inconsistencies. Faced with this, Browder denied further comments and forbade the director to use the already rotated material. Nevertheless, he turned the film to an end, at the end of which now stood:

"The fictitious story that Magnitsky uncovered a crime and was therefore killed resulted in Congress and the President of the United States, the Canadian Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the OSCE, numerous NGOs, the media and many ordinary people Citizens, including myself, are deceiving. "

! educate the general public about this politically most relevant case of fake news.

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Original article:
Browder, der Magnistky-Mythos und das Versagen der Medien

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Anti-Russian sanctions based on fraudster’s tales? Spiegel finds Magnitsky narrative fed to West by Browder is riddled with lies