at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue, 425 Metcalfe Ave. “Russian stories never have happy endings.”Īn Evening with Bill Browder featuring Irwin Cotler and host Jonathan Kay, in conjunction with Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University, takes place Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Still, the words of Browder’s late friend and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky - fully aware of what they were up against with Kremlin authorities - will haunt him for the rest of his days:
Including Canada and the U.S., seven countries have passed the act, and another seven countries are on deck.
But I’m so pleased with the outcome of the book, because in so many different countries of the world where I’m trying to get the Magnitsky Act passed, people have read the book, and it’s been such an effective advocacy tool.” “I’m just an author out of necessity to tell an important story for political policy reasons. Since most of the activities described in Red Notice took place through 2012, Browder has since accumulated enough for a second book, with even “more dramatic material to share.” But becoming an author was something he had never envisioned happening. Had it not been for her becoming the foreign minister, I’m not sure that we would have had a Magnitsky Act.” “She remains someone very near and dear to my heart and somebody who has played a very positive role in passing the Magnitsky Act in Canada. “It was because she was the bravest journalist in Moscow that I went to her. “She was really the person who started me out in exposing the Russian oligarchs back in 1998,” Browder recalls. Of interest to Canadians in Red Notice is the appearance of Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, formerly the Moscow bureau chief of the Financial Times who first interviewed Browder for her stinging piece on corruption. But on the other hand, we have his administration sanctioning oligarchs in a tougher way than I’ve ever seen anybody do anywhere in the world. On one hand, we’ve got some really awful messages about Putin coming from Trump that I strongly disagree with. My biggest protection is the fact people would know they did it, and that would create consequences.”īrowder doesn’t know what to make of the American government’s policy with regard to Russia. Then again, if they really want to get me, they’ll get me. But having said that, of course I take all sorts of precautions that might make it a little more difficult for them to kill me. “I don’t actually live in fear, because if I did they would already succeed. Regardless of his crusading, Browder denies he has taken to sleeping with one eye open in the event of retaliation for his actions. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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