Russian opposition activists have asked Capital Hill to expand the Magnitsky List. The heads of the Solidarnost movement Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov want a number of Russian law enforcement officials, judges, and those officials involved in persecuting the opposition added to the blacklist. 
It has been proposed that the Magnitsky list envisaging visa and financial sanctions against Russian officials who are allegedly linked to the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergey Magnitsky is proposed to feature the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, the Chief Russian Investigator Alexander Bastkyrin and the prosecutors in the case of the feminist-punk group Pussy Riot who are being held in custody for performing on the altar of Russia’s main cathedral. The opposition also wants sanctions introduced against judges Olga Borovkova, Alexei Stekliev and Gleb Siberov who sentenced opposition leaders for assaulting police, and against senior Moscow police as well as officers who were involved in suppressing opposition marches.


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