MLD
I admire your determination to support your country  , but  , as you will see if you follow my Posts and perhaps chat with Marina  , informed outsiders like myself know more about your country in certain areas ( economy , politics etc) than you can ever aspire to , as long as you remain inside the Federation.
I am sure you will find that comment irritating , if not infuriating , but that is how things are and will continue to be  , at least as long as your country has almost no free media and is held vice like in Putin's grasp and those of his personal army , the FSB.

The Magnitsky case is essentially a personal fight by  your beloved leader , our dear friend , Mister Putin  ,  to remove a personal enemy , or , as it was in this instance , to damage a personal enemy in the only way he could find .. Exactly as it was with Litvinenko , Politkovskaya and Khordokovsky . Personal revenge .
Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital Management and was the personal choice of the founder of the company , William Browder ,  and he acted as his  legal consultant in Moscow because he feared for his life if he ever set foot in Russia .And he would undoubtedly  have disappeared or been involved in a mysterious accident if he had ventured in.
Hermitage was a remarkably successful company on a world wide basis .It was created in 1996 and specialised in investing in emerging markets .The trouble arose because when Browder found great performing companies , he then investigated them in minute detail in order to locate areas of corruption which he would then expose  , to further increase the profit and profile of the concerned companies .
In the nineties he ripped Gazprom into shreds in several different high profile cases . As this company  is the jewel or money cow for Putin and his ex KGB and St Petersburg cronies , you can imagine the rage of Napoleon Putin  . He  was so enraged that he had  Browder black listed and denied all chance to enter the country .Then , as per the Yukos recipe ---he sent his police to raid the Moscow based offices of Hermitage  , confiscating computers and other documentation.Thereafter Putin ordered  corporate raiding  and  companies and assets were seized with the help of corrupt law enforcement officers and tame judges .

Have a look at the thread I wrote showing the connections between Gazprom  , SOGAZ and Bank Rossiya . Essentially these three institutions are where everything of any consequence that happens within the Federation are decided . The Kremlin itself is just a side show .And Putin runs these enormous institutions which are only staffed at the top by men who served with Putin in the KGB , or worked with him in the mayor's office in St Petersburg in the early nineties .
There is absolutely no question that Magnitsky and Hermitage were  not targeted by Putin .It is all about the standard reaction of one man who will not allow anybody to get in his way .  You are right about the Kremlin though . The orders came from Gazprom HQ which  rules the Kremlin  completely .

The EU , US and the United Nations have every right to investigate and report and pass any laws they choose . Russia is signatory to matters affecting Human Rights , Torture and illegal seizure of Assets . They literally have to pay huge penalties when they are repeatedly found guilty of infringing rights and in matters where the Rule of Law has failed . If you have any doubts , check it out . The fact that this is barely visible in the Russian media is hardly surprising .

Your case is  even weaker if you tell us you live outside the Federation because  now there is no excuse for pleading ignorance of available  facts .
My Post on Magnitsky and Hermitage is factually accurate .I note you took no issue with anything I posted.
My comments re the EU , US and the UN are hard facts . If you do not like what they are doing --- all quite legally ---- , you must take issue with them direct . That should be interesting
So all you are doing is complaining because I have not had enough time to reply to the far more clear cut issue ---Litvinenko .
However , since writing the Magnitsky Post , I have been fitting a new cooker into my kitchen .
And having a working cooker takes precedence every time .
I shall enjoy prompting you on the key L facts though you might refer to the LL archives where the subject was discussed in considerable detail . However , I shall reply but first I want the Football Results , a bath , clean up the kitchen and cook a dinner .
Can you contain your enthusiasm?

As for poor Mister Litvinenko ......
The really  unlucky people were the FSB
Before this , nobody had ever before been able to detect someone poisoned by Polonium 210 . The FSB had used Thalium on many occasions and  it had  slowly become  relatively easy to identify  .But Polonium 210 was a master stroke until a certain brilliant forensic scientist decided to have a Eureka moment  . The trouble with P210 was that the moment it was pinpointed , its trail ( literally ) was as clear as a muddy footprint on a white carpet . A radiation trail  was as easy to follow as watching two and two making four .
Suddenly our Police were able to watch the killers fly twice from Moscow to London ,  return ,  and  then trace every step they made . Literally .

The radiation trails were there on the planes and in taxis , hotels , restaurants and every place Lugovoy and his two pals went --- they even visited my old friend Boris .
The subject is actually rather boring because once this route appeared  ,  the evidence literally presented itself  and any idiot could see what had actually  happened .
Frankly the rest of the story is irrelevant .We know Lugovoy  was front man which is why he was protected so completely .He was Fucked .
However ,  the likely lead man was a member of URPO and senior to both L and L who were both at one time brother officers in this extreme FSB branch ,  responsible for assassinations on behalf of the State  but without the requirement of obtaining prior agreement
Subsequently, our good friend Mister Putin changed the constitution so that anybody ( in principle) could assassinate anyone deemed a threat to the Federation , without  first obtaining approval . This allowed URPO to go " underground ".
YAWN .
Smolensk is far more interesting .With poor L , Putin just killed one man to preserve the honour of the FSB and to obtain personal satisfaction .
The Smolensk massacre is much more amazing