This is a very simple story. Magnitsky not a lawyer, he was an auditor. He is a thief. Magnitsky use disabled to avoid paying taxes. Magnitsky in jail 12 months, including 9 months in the same place where he was Khodorkovsky (vip-block to the oligarchs). 70 days he sat in the camera. Before his death 38 days he lay in the prison hospital. Magnitsky died of heart failure, because He had diabetes and hepatitis. Diabetes and hepatitis destroyed heart tissue.
@NOMAGNIT Magnitsky not pay taxes, so prison hospitals in Russia are bad. He was in such bad prison hospital, and doctors could not determine that he had a bad heart. Whose fault is that it happened? Power, or those who refused to pay taxes? You decide. youtube.com/watch?v=DP75mGcRL80
230мил. долларов из бюджета РФ похитил сам фонд Эрмитаж, об этом стало известно после расследования СК,МВД и Прокуратуры РФ. Как отметили в МВД РФ, фонд Эрмитаж на протяжении всего времени работы в РФ на системном уровне занимался многомиллиардными хищениями из бюджета РФ, путем уклонения от уплаты налогов или создания мошеннических схем по их возврату. Сегодня уже состоялось 2 судебных решения и получены показания у 3-ех свидетелей, которые подтвердили что Эрмитаж стоит за этим преступлением.
The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (a weekly review of global news & ideas) page 10, Nov. 21, 2011, "Wide ripples from a death in prison" gives details. Shows Sergei Magnitsky's mother holding a photo of him & letters he sent from jail. 60 people including high officials identified involved . Only 2 low-level people charged. PRESSURING RUSSIAN GOV. THRU INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS MAY BE ONLY WAY TO BRING JUSTICE IN SUCH CASES SAY MANY RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS VETERANS..
Putin is personally responsible for the killing of Sergey Magnitskiy.
Nowadays, Putin is being cornered like a disgusting dirty thief and a bloody maniac. The recent unanimous vote of the Dutch Parliament is yet another stone paving the path of Putin's gradual slide to the scaffolds.
Why are the criminals who robbed Russia under Yeltsin hiding in israel and great britain with gov't protection.This is chump change compared to what the Russian jews stole.
Why are the criminals who robbed Russia under Yeltsin hiding in israel with gov't protection.This is chump change compared to what the Russian jews stole.
And if I was Bill Browder, I'd be sure to not disclose my travel information and constantly look over my shoulder to make sure I'm not being set-up, caught or taken out by the the good 'ol FSB.
What boggles the mind is the two tax officials, Tzymai and Zhemchuzhnikov, that they could approve this "tax rebate" of $230 million without rousing some interest from the State tax board, which, is probably corrupt from top to bottom anyhow. How much did Putin and Medvedev get from this?
Something does not add up here!To succeed with purported tax-return scheme the the supposed perpetrators did not need Hermitage in no shape or form!!! For,any notoriety would have effectively destroy the very premise: to get the "cut" of no-one's(people's...)money...
@beretkasr and FDI into Britain was 98 billion in 2008, considering the size and population of Russia 70 billion is underperforming, and no wonder with such levels of corruption.
that's the sort of statistics we shouldn't trust when it's calculated like that ...and for godsake, what demography has to do with corruption??? not to mention who could give the definition of corruption as such.
@beretkasr and your attitude is so typical of Russians, they will blame everything but there own government. There couldn't possibly be corruption in Russia, it's all a western conspiracy.
On the other hand, while i totally agree that his is a tragedy, a good lawyer and a kind man got killed, no money will get him back to his wife and children, companies like Hermigate should be taken care of. These companies do not make direct investments, they dont create jobs, they speculate with short and hot money, they are gamblers. Considering the funds they operate and the size of Russian market, couple of these companies are a serious thread to Russian financial stability.
Getting Hermitage out of Russia, i believe, was decided at the highest ranks. But those who were told to do the job felt untouchable and overworked the case. Putin or Medvedev don`t have the need to steal budged money in this way and kill innocent people, they should have their own savings. The 230$ fraud and a killed good person is a result of the mess inside the police, were everyone who is having a little backup is doing what he wants.
This is what happens to a government that has taken the side of greed and corruption over the best interests of its people.This is how the republican party works in America. Their goal is to weaken the governments ability to protect its citizens by turning them against their government. Then represent the threats that the government should protect its citizens from. They spread lies and deception in order to serve special interests with the fattest wallets as Americans are left to pay the price.
@tzar2007 1. Я как раз очень красивый)) 2. "Жидовский" - нет, у меня другая фамилия, русская)) 3. "Блять" - это синоним "шлюха", а я не веду беспорядочных связей. Эх ты, ничтожное хамло)
in our country is unrealistic to do anything without bribes and connections with government officials and police. If you want to have business in Russia - think.
oh woe. smart western mba who has made millions out of eastern collapse
comes over all righteous when he gets stung. if he was street smart rather than corporate smart he could have seen it coming. it's people like mr browder who are responsible for the mess the west is in now.
My story is more convoluted because I have been victimized in Russia, but blamed in the US where the authorities ignored my reports of assault, kidnapping, that forced me to leave St. Petersburg where I had been conducting my business. On a one-way ticket that was purchased by the criminals while I was in captivity, injured and on a wheelchair, I arrived to San Francisco International Airport, and found myself handcuffed on the spot due to a false crime report brought about by my offenders.
I was always surprised by the nativity of foreigners about Russia. Even some people in Russia begin to call this country 'North Mordor'. When Putin talks about strengthening speech freedom it means only that some more journalists are targeted for assassination. When about fighting corruption, that means soon some other companies will be robbed.
Even though I am well aware of this corruption (not this particular case, but the general status quo of Russia's state), it still surprises me how corrupt the whole country is. Maybe I should go there, get a few buddies, have the opposition killed, and man I am the next multi billionaire. Seriously, how could such corruption be happening?
The first concentration camp wasn't built by the Nazis, it was built in the Monastery at the Solovietsky islands, and was Lenin who gave the order, where one milion and a half enemies of the regime were murdered or died as a consequence of famine or different ilness. The decision was taken on January 2, 1920 and the camp was open until 1939, when Stalin decided that was so well known and too close to Leningrad, that all the prisoners were sent to the Central Republics in Asia.
@GrafvonPlanken07 I advice you to read more about concentration camps in US, South Africa and all over the world long before Lenin. But nevertheless I support this video.
The first concentration camp during the XX Century was built following orders of Vladimir I. Ulyanov alias Lenin and Jakob Sverdlov in the Solovietsky Islands where was and old Orthodox monastery, in that camp closed in 1939 died some 1,2 million people from 1920 to 1939, so were the Bolsheviks who invented the massive concentration camps first, before Hitler reached power in 1939.
@GrafvonPlanken07 I advice you to read more about concentration camps in US, South Africa and all over the world long before Lenin. But nevertheless I support this video.
I've been always telling people that I intend to come back to Russia from the western country I am currently residing. I don't give a shit about Russia being less developed. But the fact that my country is a pure criminal state at all levels from Kremlin to a small town makes me hesitate about it.
I appreciate that you guys don't blame people... I am really worried about my country...
please tell about the death of Sergey Magnitskiy. this story has now gone beyond federal fraud and narrow escapes. HC may have saved its assets, but a life has been lost to this machine, and it is personally scary. the west needs to know about this, and they need to put pressure on this country to stop this travesty. internal grassroots movements will do their work on our end.
During most of 20th century, Russia was closed from foreign investors by an iron curtain. The country was under a communist dictatorship whose ideology saw foreign capital as the ultimate evil and any business deals with foreigners bypassing government channels were treated as treason, sometimes punishable by death.
With the collapse of the communist regime came Russian industrys desperate need of foreign investments, technology and expertise.
Russian economic growth is an illusion. The Russian government position is socialistic and nationalistic in nature. Until there is a fundamental change in the Russian legal and political institutions, any investments in Russia can be treated as high-risk and speculative
Who is "so stupid to invest money in Communistic dictatorship Russia?"
Hmmm... probably Mr. Browder, could share with you a name or two of those *stupid* folks; after all, he was a head of biggest investment firm in Russia from what I hear...
Who are you to call the nation "disgusting"?? Shame on you for being so ignorant. You shall not blame the nation, it is suffering because of the current (as well as the previous) regime while the politicians together with mobsters do whatever they want and there's nobody to stop them.
Why not? It might escape you that only ignorant people blame Germans for Hitler; those who know better, are aware of such fact that first concentration camps were built by Hitler for Germans and no *freedom-loving nations* were around to help them out and to condemn such actions; they were too busy trading with criminal regime. History only repeats itself as far as I can see.
Hopefully Magnitsky's death will bring attention (yet again) to what's going on in Putin's Russia, before the next foreign investor will rush in. After all, what happened to Magnitsky is nothing outstanding - it's a norm of things and there were hundreds of people in that prison receiving the same treatment from these rotten corrupted authorities. Please don't feed the monster, cut financial ties with criminal regime. My deepest condolences to the family - RIP Sergey.
@AsterixYZ I consider only revamping the whole government will change the course of Russia, Medvedev is just a puppet and Putin is playing with the country and the people to help criminals countinue stealing and corrupting with no problems.
If you want the full facts about this case, look up Sergei Magnitsky on wikipedia. I have written a full article on him and his death in a Moscow prison.
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if there is such a question whom can you trust:
on one side chodorkowsky, browder (who used to criticize chodorkowsky) and all the other guys with american, british and israeli passports and on the other side these bad bad guys medvedev & putin, i would frankly choose the last ones. sincerely yours.
wether it's true or not. it's one evidence more for a deceitful system in which we live in. On the one hand we have massiv tax evasions and on the other we have corrupt governments and authorities. All over the world...in russia it seems to be just more obviously.
Yep, keep on hitting that "thumb down" button - go right ahead. I understand - it doesn't feel good to hear the truth. As usual, when the Western business is shortchanged, than it's becoming a big deal. However when some Russian "babushka" is at the receiving end of international financial schemes - that's not a biggie. Or so it seems. Very well, think as you wish, just remember one thing: when you shake hands with the devil, you invite the devil in your own house.
1.You know not what you are talking about. Corruption in Russia is abysmal unlike in US; essentially it's a mafia-governed country.
2. The reason that Germans ( for the moment being ) are given preference vs US business is because Putin &Co are using "divide and conquer" tactics, and they are quite successful at that.
Business everywhere is part of that country's geopolitics.Russians geopolitics, for 100s of yrs, is German based.
US businesses worldwide, either is geopolitical (Israel) or predatory.
Schroeder, ex Kanzler, in bed with Putin.
Problem with US business worldwide, at least perceived so, is that it profit is first no matter of that countries long-term economic or political interest. It is perceived as predatory, in most cases rightly so . . German unions chase US funds out of Germany.
Yes, I agree that US business puts its profits above anything else lately - be that investments in communist China or dirty deals with so-called *democrats* in post-Soviet Russia back in the 90ies, without giving too much thought about long-term consequences.
But leave US alone - look what's going on right now. Hermitage is not yet done complaining about "Police fraud," but Britain's Miliband is already rushing to Moscow to "establish relations." They can't have enough of it, do they? Amazing.
no matter russia is corrupt, overestimating gemanys influence, ignoring the fact germany not only fussball but also export weltmeister...parnoia no help here.
There are too many examples like Hermitage. I live in Russia, and I hear such stories quite often. There is a lot of corruption here. It's everywhere.
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What a ZOOOOOOOOO
New Jersey taxpayers are sending almost $1 million a month to a partnership run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for protection against rising interest costs on bonds that the state redeemed more than a year ago.
Funny thing - in the 2/5 length of this video, when the narrator tells "Hermitage has certified letter that htey overpaid tax by X million..." there is a form of ZERO TAX RETURN! Haha! Hermitage-The-Lucrative "overpaid" by submitting the zero tax return! Good job!
All of the statements made in the movie are true and verifiable. A copy of Tax Reconciliation #244 clearly shows the overpayment of 4 million rubles of taxes to the Russian budget.
This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! I work with Russians, they tell me that's THE WAY IT IS. It doesn't matter who it is. You go with the flow, or your not around for very long. The ONLY way it will change is for the Senior Politico's to allow change, but you don't get to those positions UNLESS you PLAY the corruption GAME. If you don't your not around for very long! So WHO really wants to invest in RUSSIA and pull it out of its poverty? The LEADERS of Russia don't WANT it, IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN!
Hmmm... interesting. So Bowder is trying to trace the stolen money in Western banks ( because that's where all stolen corrupted Russian money end up sooner or later.) Russians who do try to fight the corruption don't have such luxury as to check foreign accounts, yet these transfers to the Western banks are clearly the culprit. Russian corruption can't really flourish without Western banks. It takes two to tango.
having lived & worked in Russia; i am not surprised by any of this. has everyone forgotten Khordovsky - chairman of Yukos. Not that america is any cleaner after the derivatives fiasco but I have not seen the courts allow the outright stealing and tax refund of an entire firm. regarding the lack of TV or print info for russians and lck of care for political corruption; the friends I have over there tell me that they are simply tired of it all and want a quiet time, a car, a home.
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ouuuch... "russia is a bad place... corrupted goverement" you guys better watch you retirement funds (if you have/had some) they're going to be messed up again my hedge managers in Singapore. I just have one question for all Fox's channel fans here: why did USA government didn't allow Chinese guys to buy Chevron? Or yeah, it wasn't on TV, right I forgot which means never happened... Like bombing civilians and buying election in Afghanistan (hint: use google map to find it)
as an addition to my original comment: let us NOT forget that the neo KGB is seeking all who threaten their hegemony. even polonium my be getting scarce.
I have sat back and read all these posts, and now have to comment.
The beginning of March 2009 marked one year since the election of Dmitry Medvedev as president of Russia. Although he announced from the outset that the fight against corruption would be one of his main priorities, his first year in office has shown that these words were nothing more than propaganda.
I believe Mr Browder, is not that interested in how this affects him, but is one of those rare men, who have to expose evil and corruption to make the world a better place. If that means, then, that innocent men will not in the future, go to prison without trial in Russia, then Browder will go on doing what he has to do.
@TTREWB Come on, that is VERY naive. Those sorts of men did not go to Russia in the early 1990s and turn $25m into $1b in 18 months. A 4000% profit in 18 months. Do you really think you can do that in an uncorrupt way? Browder has experienced the sharp end of the corruption. Karma squared.
Yes, but how do you control corrupted government officials, who keep on shipping money abroad to keep them safely on foreign accounts? Oh, I see - it's all right when the capital is flowing to the West - no matter that it comes from those very corrupted officials. The heck with ordinary Russian citizens and their poverty and misery. It's when the Western business is shorthanded, we should feel compelled to express the righteous indignation: how dare!
PS. Oh, and when I say "money" - I mean hundred billions of them that are stolen from the country and shipped on "off-shore" accounts or directly to Western banks. You are talking about the "Russian apathy" regarding the situation - Russians are very much aware of what's going on, to the contrary of your common beliefs. Yet they know that they can't control this process - the fact that they've learned already back in nineties, during the rule of oh-so- popular in the West Mr. Yeltzin.
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I'm seeing this video as a revenge propaganda attempt at the purging by Mr Putin, of international embezzlers & banksters operating within Russian territory.
So-called Russian state corruption would only be child's play compared with the scale of embezzlement of taxpayers' funds by the many tentacles of a dictatorial & highly corrupt European Union establishment.
Yes, the eu IS a dictatorship.
In a nutshell, this expose is merely a case of sour grapes and the pot calling the pan black.
This video did not reveal anything new...neither to russian people nor to the rest. The problem, in my opinion, is that the ordinary russian people either don't care, can't be bothered or are too scared to do something about it. That's what separates them from the rest of the world...
Ordinary russian people watch local TV (less than 15 channels) and read newspapers. Mass media (especially TV) are under total Putin's control. So most of the russians have no information about the real state of things.
yeah right, compare to USA where one half of the channels belongs to Murdoch and another half to GE... it's the same brainwashing as above-just in more professional way... btw, you can get extra channels in russia if you pay for cable tv, but you should know because you're in russia, aren't you? or "я не говорить по русски"??? If Mr. Browder would see Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers" play he'd probably save some money
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unfortunately, vast corruption exists in BOTH russia and the usa. in the usa, corrupt financial people in concert with elected corrupt high government representatives, managed to bring the world to the brink of an unprecedented financial collapse.
in russia, the more lowly thugs managed to steal a "paltry" few $100 million dollars from the russian treasury. i guess the russian thugs could "benefit" from learning the USA's more advanced, convoluted, DERIVATIVE schemes. BUT inUS NO STATE MURDER.
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What a bunch of non-sense! Typical Brit and US anti-Russian propaganda. First, we don't know what this company was actually into. Just because this doc says it was a company dealing with equities doesn't mean shit. Second, if anyone thinks that the US or UK is less corrupt than Russia, they are extremely naive. As a matter of fact, I would say both the US and UK are more corrupt than Russia is and are a lot more totalitarian. Please wake the fuck up.
Of course the US and the UK are sometimes corupt, the difference is, that they both keep to within international laws, do not put people in prison, to get them out of the way, have fair trials, and are far more transparent to thier nations.
he is just some man, with no status, sitting in some dark room in russia, either a nutter, or being paid by the russians to monitor, this site. He says nothing worhty.
Now, we have Robert Amsterdam, a paid shill for Khodorkovsky defending Browder. The funny thing is that Bill was, along with myself, the most vehement critic of the murderous Khodorkovsky (look it up on the BBC website!), and strongly defended Putin in his attack on Yukos. Russia has survived much worse, and "The World is Watching" defense is worse than useless. Amsterdam could get you jailed for jaywalking!
obviously, either you do not know Browder, or you are as cynical as he is. Not to worry, He will never come back to Russia, and he can continue to lose his fortune investing in Abu Dubai, and similar meltdowns. But you notie how little concerned anyone is with his fate.
well you seem to have enough to say. sitting there in Russia. I am not cynical and yes, I do know Mr browder. I also know good from bad, goverments that are honest, and goverments that are not. Its not his fate that he is fighting for, it's JUSTICE,, and a man that has been jailed by a corrupt, and evil goverment.
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$230 million - That's bread crumbs compared to the corrupt shennanigans committed by the U.S. government. Just look at the bailout totals stolen from the American people for select cartels. AIG alone got $53 Billion of the people's money, Goldman/Government Sachs $12 Bill directly and unspecified billions routed though AIG and other banks, Bear Stearns $29 bill, Fannie/Freddie $300 bill, the PPIF program $900 bill, and the Federal Reserve printed up $3 Trillion for MM funds and $1.6 tril to buy
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English, watched it twice.I doubt Tsarist Russia was as as corrupt as it is now. By all accounts it was quite civilized until the jews took over. I'd like to see Putin sort this crime out, ruthlessly - public hangings etc.
So Woody Allen goes to Russia and gets victimized by gangster government. Isn't this the way it works just about everywhere?
Consider the way GangstaGov trashed the company (Hamilton Securities) of Catherine Austin Fitts because she was getting too close to Da Boys. Or the way Inslaw was used and then abused by the U.S. "Dept of Justice" AND SO ON.
I'm not sure what the real lesson in this video is other than to melodramatically attempt to create PR with media tricks.
And to you Mr. DaRussia - er, better read your vedmosti a little more carefully next time....maybe it is just a function of the fact that you paid for your degree like 98% of russians....tell that to your nashi friends next time they are banging heads out in the street - to protect the homeland.
Hurrah for Gila - some one who cares and believes in good! problem is that there is no morality in russia..they can argue that there is...but, I don't know, 1,000 years of history, provide no evidence of such...and don't get into the orthodox church on this one - they have made absoutely no impact on this society.
its called country risks of course, but that doesnt mean they are not doing a positive thing (for the opening of russia and to reduce country risk) by making public this elaborate case of fraud and corruption.
Corruption in Russia is no the result of socialism - Tsarist Russia was famously corrupt. The least corruption occurred under Stalin (for obvious reasons).
This is so obviously manipulative. It is pure PR spin. And yet no one seems to notice, or to ask the obvioius questions. Browder had no problem in loudly supporting Putin in his fight against Khodorkovsky - and rightly so! Now he is fool enough to adopt the Khodorkovsky scorched earth defence himself.
I anyone out there really stupid enough to believe that Browder has run a multi-million dollar PR/Legal campagin for the sole purpose of recovering money for the Russian government? Browder has never been seen to do anything except in his own. He claims that he had withdrawn all assets from the stolen companies, so he lost nothing. Why the crusade? What does he have to hide. What are the charges against him?
its not the charges against him, that he is fighting at the moment, but real people have lost their freedom, he is fighting for that and for all corruption inside Russia
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Do you actually know anything about this case? do you know the people involved, or are you just parroting what what was a very professionally done video which may, for all you know, be an absolute pack of lies?
i know everything and every body. i know a man sits in some terrible jail, awaiting his fate, because he refused to leave the country, because he had done nothing wrong!...tell me what do you know?
I must confess to a frisson of delight to think that Earl Browder's grandson is getting screwed by the Russians.When the grandson of the Secretary-General of the US Communist Party and admirer of Stalin gets screwed by Stalin's descendents the irony is delightful.
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Did'ent the western bankers rob Russia dry in the 90s...not once, but TWICE?
Its corruption, thought its best not to throw stones when you live in a Greenhouse. I'm sure Hermitage has been doing business the Russian way very sucessfully, so all can't be whiter than white with their business methods.
No point crying about it, its a game played all over the world with vast amounts of electronic money, this time the turnover was 'wrong' apparently...
This is Russia who wants to be part of a democratic and civilized world...... Well done Mr. Browder, congratulations on stand for good values, ones that Russia that's not know. The only language the Russian government speak is intimidation.
Russia will never be a great nation until they stamp out the worst of the corruption. This is the result of generations of communist socialism. It eats away at the foundation of society and leaves people with "relative morality". The "if it feels right than do" mentality has rotted Russian society from within. They have no true free market capitalism (just corruption and cronyism), no freedom of religion, no freedom of speech.
The effects of socialism! It has been eating at America for 80 years
That's Russia to you, people... I was born and lived a significant portion of my life in Russia. I know what I'm talking about. Do business with this unfortunate country on your own risk. Don't say you haven't been warned.
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This is a very simple story. Magnitsky not a lawyer, he was an auditor. He is a thief. Magnitsky use disabled to avoid paying taxes. Magnitsky in jail 12 months, including 9 months in the same place where he was Khodorkovsky (vip-block to the oligarchs). 70 days he sat in the camera. Before his death 38 days he lay in the prison hospital. Magnitsky died of heart failure, because He had diabetes and hepatitis. Diabetes and hepatitis destroyed heart tissue.
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@NOMAGNIT Magnitsky not pay taxes, so prison hospitals in Russia are bad. He was in such bad prison hospital, and doctors could not determine that he had a bad heart. Whose fault is that it happened? Power, or those who refused to pay taxes? You decide. youtube.com/watch?v=DP75mGcRL80
NOMAGNIT 1 month ago
230мил. долларов из бюджета РФ похитил сам фонд Эрмитаж, об этом стало известно после расследования СК,МВД и Прокуратуры РФ. Как отметили в МВД РФ, фонд Эрмитаж на протяжении всего времени работы в РФ на системном уровне занимался многомиллиардными хищениями из бюджета РФ, путем уклонения от уплаты налогов или создания мошеннических схем по их возврату. Сегодня уже состоялось 2 судебных решения и получены показания у 3-ех свидетелей, которые подтвердили что Эрмитаж стоит за этим преступлением.
NOMAGNIT 1 month ago
The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (a weekly review of global news & ideas) page 10, Nov. 21, 2011, "Wide ripples from a death in prison" gives details. Shows Sergei Magnitsky's mother holding a photo of him & letters he sent from jail. 60 people including high officials identified involved . Only 2 low-level people charged. PRESSURING RUSSIAN GOV. THRU INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS MAY BE ONLY WAY TO BRING JUSTICE IN SUCH CASES SAY MANY RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS VETERANS..
talentlover2 2 months ago
Putin is personally responsible for the killing of Sergey Magnitskiy.
Nowadays, Putin is being cornered like a disgusting dirty thief and a bloody maniac. The recent unanimous vote of the Dutch Parliament is yet another stone paving the path of Putin's gradual slide to the scaffolds.
Victor, Moscow
SIGURDOYVIND 6 months ago
Why are the criminals who robbed Russia under Yeltsin hiding in israel and great britain with gov't protection.This is chump change compared to what the Russian jews stole.
chornyvolk 8 months ago 2
Why are the criminals who robbed Russia under Yeltsin hiding in israel with gov't protection.This is chump change compared to what the Russian jews stole.
chornyvolk 8 months ago
eto hana
kamapucha 8 months ago
And if I was Bill Browder, I'd be sure to not disclose my travel information and constantly look over my shoulder to make sure I'm not being set-up, caught or taken out by the the good 'ol FSB.
iwanttoholdyourbigkn 9 months ago
What boggles the mind is the two tax officials, Tzymai and Zhemchuzhnikov, that they could approve this "tax rebate" of $230 million without rousing some interest from the State tax board, which, is probably corrupt from top to bottom anyhow. How much did Putin and Medvedev get from this?
iwanttoholdyourbigkn 9 months ago
And you expect anything less from the Russian government and its deeply rooted corruption?
iwanttoholdyourbigkn 9 months ago
I can give 100% that Putin and Russian milliarders pay FIFA cunks !
23withthemoneytree 1 year ago
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beretkasr 1 year ago
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beretkasr 1 year ago
Something does not add up here!To succeed with purported tax-return scheme the the supposed perpetrators did not need Hermitage in no shape or form!!! For,any notoriety would have effectively destroy the very premise: to get the "cut" of no-one's(people's...)money...
madrussian1000 1 year ago
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beretkasr 1 year ago
@beretkasr and FDI into Britain was 98 billion in 2008, considering the size and population of Russia 70 billion is underperforming, and no wonder with such levels of corruption.
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beretkasr 1 year ago
@smoochym
that's the sort of statistics we shouldn't trust when it's calculated like that ...and for godsake, what demography has to do with corruption??? not to mention who could give the definition of corruption as such.
tzar2007 1 year ago
@beretkasr and your attitude is so typical of Russians, they will blame everything but there own government. There couldn't possibly be corruption in Russia, it's all a western conspiracy.
smoochym 1 year ago
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beretkasr 1 year ago
@beretkasr Nokia also invested into Afghanistan.
funny.
smoochym 1 year ago
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beretkasr 1 year ago
The lawyer was murdered in a Russian jail in November of 2009.
rrsafety 1 year ago
On the other hand, while i totally agree that his is a tragedy, a good lawyer and a kind man got killed, no money will get him back to his wife and children, companies like Hermigate should be taken care of. These companies do not make direct investments, they dont create jobs, they speculate with short and hot money, they are gamblers. Considering the funds they operate and the size of Russian market, couple of these companies are a serious thread to Russian financial stability.
omadesalah 1 year ago
Getting Hermitage out of Russia, i believe, was decided at the highest ranks. But those who were told to do the job felt untouchable and overworked the case. Putin or Medvedev don`t have the need to steal budged money in this way and kill innocent people, they should have their own savings. The 230$ fraud and a killed good person is a result of the mess inside the police, were everyone who is having a little backup is doing what he wants.
omadesalah 1 year ago
This is what happens to a government that has taken the side of greed and corruption over the best interests of its people.This is how the republican party works in America. Their goal is to weaken the governments ability to protect its citizens by turning them against their government. Then represent the threats that the government should protect its citizens from. They spread lies and deception in order to serve special interests with the fattest wallets as Americans are left to pay the price.
RichardE8ST 1 year ago
I have always heard Russia is corrupt but jeez,,, didnt think it was this bad in this modern age
Nebelwerfer89 1 year ago
Я вынужден жить в России, у меня нет возможности уехать в цивилизованную страну, но я всей душой ненавижу такую родину.
Kefirnik1 1 year ago
@Kefirnik1
- ты урод жидовский блять
tzar2007 1 year ago
@tzar2007 1. Я как раз очень красивый)) 2. "Жидовский" - нет, у меня другая фамилия, русская)) 3. "Блять" - это синоним "шлюха", а я не веду беспорядочных связей. Эх ты, ничтожное хамло)
Kefirnik1 1 year ago
I teach the english. I come to you to work.
because I need confidence in the future.
in our country is unrealistic to do anything without bribes and connections with government officials and police. If you want to have business in Russia - think.
Money is better to invest in China!
stranniiy 1 year ago
oh woe. smart western mba who has made millions out of eastern collapse
comes over all righteous when he gets stung. if he was street smart rather than corporate smart he could have seen it coming. it's people like mr browder who are responsible for the mess the west is in now.
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RandomG5 1 year ago
My story is more convoluted because I have been victimized in Russia, but blamed in the US where the authorities ignored my reports of assault, kidnapping, that forced me to leave St. Petersburg where I had been conducting my business. On a one-way ticket that was purchased by the criminals while I was in captivity, injured and on a wheelchair, I arrived to San Francisco International Airport, and found myself handcuffed on the spot due to a false crime report brought about by my offenders.
Legatoist 1 year ago
Are you watching this, Mr Peter Lavelle?
kazandemocrat 1 year ago 3
I was always surprised by the nativity of foreigners about Russia. Even some people in Russia begin to call this country 'North Mordor'. When Putin talks about strengthening speech freedom it means only that some more journalists are targeted for assassination. When about fighting corruption, that means soon some other companies will be robbed.
donoles2 1 year ago 6
Even though I am well aware of this corruption (not this particular case, but the general status quo of Russia's state), it still surprises me how corrupt the whole country is. Maybe I should go there, get a few buddies, have the opposition killed, and man I am the next multi billionaire. Seriously, how could such corruption be happening?
arsenprodigy 1 year ago 2
The first concentration camp wasn't built by the Nazis, it was built in the Monastery at the Solovietsky islands, and was Lenin who gave the order, where one milion and a half enemies of the regime were murdered or died as a consequence of famine or different ilness. The decision was taken on January 2, 1920 and the camp was open until 1939, when Stalin decided that was so well known and too close to Leningrad, that all the prisoners were sent to the Central Republics in Asia.
GrafvonPlanken07 1 year ago 5
@GrafvonPlanken07 I advice you to read more about concentration camps in US, South Africa and all over the world long before Lenin. But nevertheless I support this video.
FedorBP 1 year ago
The first concentration camp during the XX Century was built following orders of Vladimir I. Ulyanov alias Lenin and Jakob Sverdlov in the Solovietsky Islands where was and old Orthodox monastery, in that camp closed in 1939 died some 1,2 million people from 1920 to 1939, so were the Bolsheviks who invented the massive concentration camps first, before Hitler reached power in 1939.
GrafvonPlanken07 1 year ago 2
PS not 1939 Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor in 1933, was the last act of Field Marshal von Hindenburg who hated Hitler.
GrafvonPlanken07 1 year ago
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@GrafvonPlanken07 I advice you to read more about concentration camps in US, South Africa and all over the world long before Lenin. But nevertheless I support this video.
FedorBP 1 year ago
I've been always telling people that I intend to come back to Russia from the western country I am currently residing. I don't give a shit about Russia being less developed. But the fact that my country is a pure criminal state at all levels from Kremlin to a small town makes me hesitate about it.
I appreciate that you guys don't blame people... I am really worried about my country...
NightEldar 2 years ago 6
please tell about the death of Sergey Magnitskiy. this story has now gone beyond federal fraud and narrow escapes. HC may have saved its assets, but a life has been lost to this machine, and it is personally scary. the west needs to know about this, and they need to put pressure on this country to stop this travesty. internal grassroots movements will do their work on our end.
akahamlet 2 years ago 5
Investing in Russia for someone who is not a Kremlin insider equal to playing Russian roulette with a pistol that has five loaded chambers....
alkaust 2 years ago 9
During most of 20th century, Russia was closed from foreign investors by an iron curtain. The country was under a communist dictatorship whose ideology saw foreign capital as the ultimate evil and any business deals with foreigners bypassing government channels were treated as treason, sometimes punishable by death.
With the collapse of the communist regime came Russian industrys desperate need of foreign investments, technology and expertise.
alkaust 2 years ago 2
Russian economic growth is an illusion. The Russian government position is socialistic and nationalistic in nature. Until there is a fundamental change in the Russian legal and political institutions, any investments in Russia can be treated as high-risk and speculative
alkaust 2 years ago 7
you are stupid.
Russia is not communistic country
and another your words were junks
andreyRUS17 2 years ago
@500NELSON
Who is "so stupid to invest money in Communistic dictatorship Russia?"
Hmmm... probably Mr. Browder, could share with you a name or two of those *stupid* folks; after all, he was a head of biggest investment firm in Russia from what I hear...
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
Who are you to call the nation "disgusting"?? Shame on you for being so ignorant. You shall not blame the nation, it is suffering because of the current (as well as the previous) regime while the politicians together with mobsters do whatever they want and there's nobody to stop them.
dmizz310 2 years ago 3
"You shall not blame the nation"
And why not? People blame the germans for Hitler so I think it is only fair that Russia gets also blamed for what their leaders in the Kremlin do.
ss90ss444 2 years ago 3
@ss90ss444
Why not? It might escape you that only ignorant people blame Germans for Hitler; those who know better, are aware of such fact that first concentration camps were built by Hitler for Germans and no *freedom-loving nations* were around to help them out and to condemn such actions; they were too busy trading with criminal regime. History only repeats itself as far as I can see.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
@ss90ss444 Don't invest and don't blame Russian's, if you invested blame yourself.
haimaphil 2 years ago 3
@dmizz310 So true, dont blame the nation blame fucking Putin and co.
X12Productions 2 years ago 5
Hopefully Magnitsky's death will bring attention (yet again) to what's going on in Putin's Russia, before the next foreign investor will rush in. After all, what happened to Magnitsky is nothing outstanding - it's a norm of things and there were hundreds of people in that prison receiving the same treatment from these rotten corrupted authorities. Please don't feed the monster, cut financial ties with criminal regime. My deepest condolences to the family - RIP Sergey.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago 3
@AsterixYZ I consider only revamping the whole government will change the course of Russia, Medvedev is just a puppet and Putin is playing with the country and the people to help criminals countinue stealing and corrupting with no problems.
X12Productions 2 years ago 4
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At least things are not as bad as they were in the 1990"s when Boris Yeltsin was president.
ss90ss444 2 years ago
If you want the full facts about this case, look up Sergei Magnitsky on wikipedia. I have written a full article on him and his death in a Moscow prison.
ivankinsman 2 years ago 3
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newsgirlok 2 years ago
Expensive dinners must not be working for Browder to attract women, he is hoping intrigue will work to spread them.
85thetree 2 years ago
The funeral was held today for the lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who is featured in this video. RIP
globetrottinglady 2 years ago 17
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globetrottinglady 2 years ago
ned more facts, but emotions
lmaodzen 2 years ago
Magnitsky has died in jail today.
Who would have thought right?
catalanes182 2 years ago 6
damn, this so usual.. I am citizen of Russia that's why I am telling this for sure. Now I am a bit curious: "Should I stay or should I go?"
RastaManDreadlocK 2 years ago 5
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if there is such a question whom can you trust:
on one side chodorkowsky, browder (who used to criticize chodorkowsky) and all the other guys with american, british and israeli passports and on the other side these bad bad guys medvedev & putin, i would frankly choose the last ones. sincerely yours.
calvincaulfield 2 years ago
wether it's true or not. it's one evidence more for a deceitful system in which we live in. On the one hand we have massiv tax evasions and on the other we have corrupt governments and authorities. All over the world...in russia it seems to be just more obviously.
hanspanzer 2 years ago 3
Yep, keep on hitting that "thumb down" button - go right ahead. I understand - it doesn't feel good to hear the truth. As usual, when the Western business is shortchanged, than it's becoming a big deal. However when some Russian "babushka" is at the receiving end of international financial schemes - that's not a biggie. Or so it seems. Very well, think as you wish, just remember one thing: when you shake hands with the devil, you invite the devil in your own house.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago 4
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Corruption in Russia is not more than in US .. probably even less.
Why Germans can do business in Russia and not US companies ?
Germans no dummy.
Germans are heavily investing in Russia, they own all eastern Europe Industry.
Germany chased US private equity out, Spiegel reported extensively.
Private equity, basically, has ruined many good businesses.
Putin said no
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
1.You know not what you are talking about. Corruption in Russia is abysmal unlike in US; essentially it's a mafia-governed country.
2. The reason that Germans ( for the moment being ) are given preference vs US business is because Putin &Co are using "divide and conquer" tactics, and they are quite successful at that.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
Business everywhere is part of that country's geopolitics.Russians geopolitics, for 100s of yrs, is German based.
US businesses worldwide, either is geopolitical (Israel) or predatory.
Schroeder, ex Kanzler, in bed with Putin.
Problem with US business worldwide, at least perceived so, is that it profit is first no matter of that countries long-term economic or political interest. It is perceived as predatory, in most cases rightly so . . German unions chase US funds out of Germany.
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
Yes, I agree that US business puts its profits above anything else lately - be that investments in communist China or dirty deals with so-called *democrats* in post-Soviet Russia back in the 90ies, without giving too much thought about long-term consequences.
But leave US alone - look what's going on right now. Hermitage is not yet done complaining about "Police fraud," but Britain's Miliband is already rushing to Moscow to "establish relations." They can't have enough of it, do they? Amazing.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago 4
no matter russia is corrupt, overestimating gemanys influence, ignoring the fact germany not only fussball but also export weltmeister...parnoia no help here.
brillityp 2 years ago 2
There are too many examples like Hermitage. I live in Russia, and I hear such stories quite often. There is a lot of corruption here. It's everywhere.
InfidelM 2 years ago 8
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What a ZOOOOOOOOO
The man who made $7 billion in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, Jeffry Picower, was found dead in his Palm Beach, Fla., swimming pool
Bernie does not say what happened with the Billions and this guy drowns in his pawn . .
Hehehe - very funny
Need iron fist to clean the barn . . Helloooo Putin
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
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What a ZOOOOOOOOO
New Jersey taxpayers are sending almost $1 million a month to a partnership run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for protection against rising interest costs on bonds that the state redeemed more than a year ago.
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
AzailLoveIran - get a better class of education in your next life you jerk! You have no idea what you are talking about.
Well done Mr Browder - keep up the good work.
globetrottinglady 2 years ago 3
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Truth hurts . .
No idea what I'm talking ??
Heheheh
These people should be ashamed of ruining America, and now complaining they could not do same to Russia.
And watch your language.
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
YES. This country is not for wimps. Russia is the one big Klondike not becoming empty for the ages while we robbed by the politics.
I am very glad that here officials give a shit on all your life while you dont mind you are smartest in the locality.
Want to do our wild market? Get ready to take some kicks of )) already damaged? )) ass, and, probably, change youtube to the nothern lights.
uuberdorkus 2 years ago
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P.S. God bless Russia - properly free country!
uuberdorkus 2 years ago
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The Wall Street Mafia (wink wink), thought they could clean Russia as they cleaned America.
Well, not with Putin in charge.Russians too smart for it.
Germans are doing business in Russia since long long time, AND very happy.
BTW, Madoff usurped looots of Russian money, a whole lot, one could think this was a stunt to rub the Russians.
1st shame on you, 2nd time shame on me.
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
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Funny thing - in the 2/5 length of this video, when the narrator tells "Hermitage has certified letter that htey overpaid tax by X million..." there is a form of ZERO TAX RETURN! Haha! Hermitage-The-Lucrative "overpaid" by submitting the zero tax return! Good job!
MrVolony 2 years ago
Dear Mr. Volony:
All of the statements made in the movie are true and verifiable. A copy of Tax Reconciliation #244 clearly shows the overpayment of 4 million rubles of taxes to the Russian budget.
HermitageTV 2 years ago
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uuberdorkus 2 years ago
Copy of this document is available on the lawandorderinrussia . org blog
HermitageTV 2 years ago
This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! I work with Russians, they tell me that's THE WAY IT IS. It doesn't matter who it is. You go with the flow, or your not around for very long. The ONLY way it will change is for the Senior Politico's to allow change, but you don't get to those positions UNLESS you PLAY the corruption GAME. If you don't your not around for very long! So WHO really wants to invest in RUSSIA and pull it out of its poverty? The LEADERS of Russia don't WANT it, IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN!
coozbee 2 years ago 8
I'm sure there is more to this story than we are being told. What did these companies do?
What is Browders connection to foreign governments possibly hostile to Russia?
What connection is there between these events and recent events in Georgia?
Etc.
DuncanDonuts3 2 years ago
Do you really think, that there is a connection?
InfidelM 2 years ago 3
I heard there are lots of gangsters and criminals in Russia so I am not surprised to hear this story.
TungMengFung 2 years ago 5
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logovo89 2 years ago
This story is not about gangsters, it's about corruption, about criminals, that rule a country.
InfidelM 2 years ago 18
@InfidelM they rule the world becuase good people dont stop them
ituck100 9 months ago
Hmmm... interesting. So Bowder is trying to trace the stolen money in Western banks ( because that's where all stolen corrupted Russian money end up sooner or later.) Russians who do try to fight the corruption don't have such luxury as to check foreign accounts, yet these transfers to the Western banks are clearly the culprit. Russian corruption can't really flourish without Western banks. It takes two to tango.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
having lived & worked in Russia; i am not surprised by any of this. has everyone forgotten Khordovsky - chairman of Yukos. Not that america is any cleaner after the derivatives fiasco but I have not seen the courts allow the outright stealing and tax refund of an entire firm. regarding the lack of TV or print info for russians and lck of care for political corruption; the friends I have over there tell me that they are simply tired of it all and want a quiet time, a car, a home.
blobclark 2 years ago
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ouuuch... "russia is a bad place... corrupted goverement" you guys better watch you retirement funds (if you have/had some) they're going to be messed up again my hedge managers in Singapore. I just have one question for all Fox's channel fans here: why did USA government didn't allow Chinese guys to buy Chevron? Or yeah, it wasn't on TV, right I forgot which means never happened... Like bombing civilians and buying election in Afghanistan (hint: use google map to find it)
ittt03 2 years ago
good work bill browder bravo
xx9MMxx 2 years ago 3
so shocking that it's almost hard to believe.
redredjuice 2 years ago 2
ANY national govrnment--if it has criminals it it--can do this to any organization whose bank accounts they covet.
We blame Russia--and we see land confiscation in Venezuela--but ask the U.S. Chrysler automobile dealers what happened to their businesses!
Many were still profitable. They weren't nationalized, but some official decided they should be shut down.
"Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
DataRelater 2 years ago 7
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what Hermitage was exactly doing in Russia? Money, oil, metals? There's no prove in that video that that company was clean. Was it?
alexguitaralex 2 years ago
as an addition to my original comment: let us NOT forget that the neo KGB is seeking all who threaten their hegemony. even polonium my be getting scarce.
tamarajean27 2 years ago
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This is not surprising in the least I we see such corruption in the USA constantly.
marquedesade 2 years ago
These devils are everywhere.
ang9967 2 years ago 2
I have sat back and read all these posts, and now have to comment.
The beginning of March 2009 marked one year since the election of Dmitry Medvedev as president of Russia. Although he announced from the outset that the fight against corruption would be one of his main priorities, his first year in office has shown that these words were nothing more than propaganda.
TTREWB 2 years ago 24
I believe Mr Browder, is not that interested in how this affects him, but is one of those rare men, who have to expose evil and corruption to make the world a better place. If that means, then, that innocent men will not in the future, go to prison without trial in Russia, then Browder will go on doing what he has to do.
TTREWB 2 years ago 23
@TTREWB
you believe in saints among us these days?
then you might as well believe in Santa Claus, for example.
tzar2007 1 year ago
@TTREWB Come on, that is VERY naive. Those sorts of men did not go to Russia in the early 1990s and turn $25m into $1b in 18 months. A 4000% profit in 18 months. Do you really think you can do that in an uncorrupt way? Browder has experienced the sharp end of the corruption. Karma squared.
coldcallinguk 1 year ago
Like a virus in the blood of a diseased organism, CORRUPTION is present in all commercial and government relations, and at all levels.
TTREWB 2 years ago 12
Yes, but how do you control corrupted government officials, who keep on shipping money abroad to keep them safely on foreign accounts? Oh, I see - it's all right when the capital is flowing to the West - no matter that it comes from those very corrupted officials. The heck with ordinary Russian citizens and their poverty and misery. It's when the Western business is shorthanded, we should feel compelled to express the righteous indignation: how dare!
Hypocrites, the whole bunch of you.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
PS. Oh, and when I say "money" - I mean hundred billions of them that are stolen from the country and shipped on "off-shore" accounts or directly to Western banks. You are talking about the "Russian apathy" regarding the situation - Russians are very much aware of what's going on, to the contrary of your common beliefs. Yet they know that they can't control this process - the fact that they've learned already back in nineties, during the rule of oh-so- popular in the West Mr. Yeltzin.
AsterixYZ 2 years ago
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I'm seeing this video as a revenge propaganda attempt at the purging by Mr Putin, of international embezzlers & banksters operating within Russian territory.
So-called Russian state corruption would only be child's play compared with the scale of embezzlement of taxpayers' funds by the many tentacles of a dictatorial & highly corrupt European Union establishment.
Yes, the eu IS a dictatorship.
In a nutshell, this expose is merely a case of sour grapes and the pot calling the pan black.
zzllup 2 years ago
tumb up
alexguitaralex 2 years ago
This video did not reveal anything new...neither to russian people nor to the rest. The problem, in my opinion, is that the ordinary russian people either don't care, can't be bothered or are too scared to do something about it. That's what separates them from the rest of the world...
PycYkyc 2 years ago
Ordinary russian people watch local TV (less than 15 channels) and read newspapers. Mass media (especially TV) are under total Putin's control. So most of the russians have no information about the real state of things.
MrBLASTARR 2 years ago 8
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This is an old myth of the American government propaganda
Medveputt 2 years ago
yeah right, compare to USA where one half of the channels belongs to Murdoch and another half to GE... it's the same brainwashing as above-just in more professional way... btw, you can get extra channels in russia if you pay for cable tv, but you should know because you're in russia, aren't you? or "я не говорить по русски"??? If Mr. Browder would see Nikolai Gogol's "The Gamblers" play he'd probably save some money
ittt03 2 years ago
tamarajean27, you are can't be serious or your hatred against the US is completely clouding your reason.
How can you compare state-led and / or condoned thuggery and corruption with idiotic mismanagement of financial derivatives?
Oh do grow up.
zballok 2 years ago 8
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unfortunately, vast corruption exists in BOTH russia and the usa. in the usa, corrupt financial people in concert with elected corrupt high government representatives, managed to bring the world to the brink of an unprecedented financial collapse.
in russia, the more lowly thugs managed to steal a "paltry" few $100 million dollars from the russian treasury. i guess the russian thugs could "benefit" from learning the USA's more advanced, convoluted, DERIVATIVE schemes. BUT inUS NO STATE MURDER.
tamarajean27 2 years ago
He is a brave man. Just wants to clear his name, resolve the problem and find justice. Unfortunately, this is not possible.
umpalumpa716 2 years ago 10
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"certain" people wanted to do same in Russia as they did to America in Wall Street. Putin put a stop to this.
These people have now escaped and live in Israel and UK.
Putin is a Russian Nationalist and would not allow the Wall Street Mafia to do same as done to America.
Americans should wake up and see what's done to their economy and by whom ?
All people, Rubin, Summers, Greenspan, Bernake, Geitner all partner in crime.
Who are these people ??
Putin no dummy .. he knows what he doing
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
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Privat equity destroyed America
NYT article says how : Buyout Firms Profited as a Companys Debt Soared
They wanted to do the same in Russia , Putin stoped them.
The real Mafia and criminal are the Privat Equity and hedge funds ..
Russians did not do anything wrong ..
This only a propaganda video
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
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What a bunch of non-sense! Typical Brit and US anti-Russian propaganda. First, we don't know what this company was actually into. Just because this doc says it was a company dealing with equities doesn't mean shit. Second, if anyone thinks that the US or UK is less corrupt than Russia, they are extremely naive. As a matter of fact, I would say both the US and UK are more corrupt than Russia is and are a lot more totalitarian. Please wake the fuck up.
Ilian83 2 years ago
Of course the US and the UK are sometimes corupt, the difference is, that they both keep to within international laws, do not put people in prison, to get them out of the way, have fair trials, and are far more transparent to thier nations.
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 6
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America was destroyed, by Wall Street Mafia, within the law.
That is why nothing happens to the crooks in Palm Beach sipping Martini when at the same time Americans are losing their Jobs and homes.
They wanted to do same in Russia .. Putin put a stop at the nonsense . . America still has head in sand ..
AzariLoveIran 2 years ago
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What kind of crack are you smoking?
"they both keep to within international laws"
Yeah, just like they kept to international law when the US and UK invaded Iraq.
"do not put people in prison"
Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons all around the world, not to mention the biggest prison population in the world.
"far more transparent to their nations"
Gotta love this one. $700 billion of TARP funds to who? $500 billion Currency Swap Facility of the Fed to who?
Get your fucking facts straight.
Ilian83 2 years ago
Illian83 - the question is not what the US or UK is, fact is, that this story could be very well true - you know that.
TheCzarOfMeggen 2 years ago 7
92 years of denying a God over the state.
mn8aol 2 years ago
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they wanted to make big money quickly
they were ready to do everything for it but for some reason (greed likely) they strategy failed and now these f** bustards make statements
so funny
maxim29672 2 years ago
I share the comments of Citygirl5, shame old Krause2604 has a massive chip on his shoulder! Well done Mr Browder!
newsgirlok 2 years ago 4
he is just some man, with no status, sitting in some dark room in russia, either a nutter, or being paid by the russians to monitor, this site. He says nothing worhty.
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 3
Now, we have Robert Amsterdam, a paid shill for Khodorkovsky defending Browder. The funny thing is that Bill was, along with myself, the most vehement critic of the murderous Khodorkovsky (look it up on the BBC website!), and strongly defended Putin in his attack on Yukos. Russia has survived much worse, and "The World is Watching" defense is worse than useless. Amsterdam could get you jailed for jaywalking!
kraus2604 2 years ago
Kraus2604 - as I said yesterday, take a chill pill man!
newsgirlok 2 years ago
repeating mindless epigrams suggests idiocy...
kraus2604 2 years ago
great video, done by a brave, great man
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 4
obviously, either you do not know Browder, or you are as cynical as he is. Not to worry, He will never come back to Russia, and he can continue to lose his fortune investing in Abu Dubai, and similar meltdowns. But you notie how little concerned anyone is with his fate.
kraus2604 2 years ago
well you seem to have enough to say. sitting there in Russia. I am not cynical and yes, I do know Mr browder. I also know good from bad, goverments that are honest, and goverments that are not. Its not his fate that he is fighting for, it's JUSTICE,, and a man that has been jailed by a corrupt, and evil goverment.
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 5
it's exactly that it's 'relatively' small that is worrisome. it's arbitrary.
chunkychi 2 years ago
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$230 million - That's bread crumbs compared to the corrupt shennanigans committed by the U.S. government. Just look at the bailout totals stolen from the American people for select cartels. AIG alone got $53 Billion of the people's money, Goldman/Government Sachs $12 Bill directly and unspecified billions routed though AIG and other banks, Bear Stearns $29 bill, Fannie/Freddie $300 bill, the PPIF program $900 bill, and the Federal Reserve printed up $3 Trillion for MM funds and $1.6 tril to buy
joesub 2 years ago
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English, watched it twice.I doubt Tsarist Russia was as as corrupt as it is now. By all accounts it was quite civilized until the jews took over. I'd like to see Putin sort this crime out, ruthlessly - public hangings etc.
takizakura123 2 years ago
this is russia. government= gangster. no wonder.
vioz87 2 years ago 6
hmm probably secret movement to nationalist the company.
kutuimut 2 years ago
So Woody Allen goes to Russia and gets victimized by gangster government. Isn't this the way it works just about everywhere?
Consider the way GangstaGov trashed the company (Hamilton Securities) of Catherine Austin Fitts because she was getting too close to Da Boys. Or the way Inslaw was used and then abused by the U.S. "Dept of Justice" AND SO ON.
I'm not sure what the real lesson in this video is other than to melodramatically attempt to create PR with media tricks.
bagginshates 2 years ago
Вопрос в том, что буду я делать в этой стране когда вырасту? Воровать, грабить или побераться? А вот порядочным делом мне точно не дадут заниматся.
mistulac 2 years ago 2
And to you Mr. DaRussia - er, better read your vedmosti a little more carefully next time....maybe it is just a function of the fact that you paid for your degree like 98% of russians....tell that to your nashi friends next time they are banging heads out in the street - to protect the homeland.
sassman2 2 years ago
Hurrah for Gila - some one who cares and believes in good! problem is that there is no morality in russia..they can argue that there is...but, I don't know, 1,000 years of history, provide no evidence of such...and don't get into the orthodox church on this one - they have made absoutely no impact on this society.
sassman2 2 years ago
its called country risks of course, but that doesnt mean they are not doing a positive thing (for the opening of russia and to reduce country risk) by making public this elaborate case of fraud and corruption.
sajoniaescolapios 2 years ago 4
It would be nice to hear some commentary from others besides the Nashi group..any non-russians, non-americans out there care to weigh in?
sassman2 2 years ago
Corruption in Russia is no the result of socialism - Tsarist Russia was famously corrupt. The least corruption occurred under Stalin (for obvious reasons).
calripson 2 years ago 2
This is so obviously manipulative. It is pure PR spin. And yet no one seems to notice, or to ask the obvioius questions. Browder had no problem in loudly supporting Putin in his fight against Khodorkovsky - and rightly so! Now he is fool enough to adopt the Khodorkovsky scorched earth defence himself.
kraus2604 2 years ago
I anyone out there really stupid enough to believe that Browder has run a multi-million dollar PR/Legal campagin for the sole purpose of recovering money for the Russian government? Browder has never been seen to do anything except in his own. He claims that he had withdrawn all assets from the stolen companies, so he lost nothing. Why the crusade? What does he have to hide. What are the charges against him?
kraus2604 2 years ago
Hey kraus2604, take a chill pill man!
newsgirlok 2 years ago 2
its not the charges against him, that he is fighting at the moment, but real people have lost their freedom, he is fighting for that and for all corruption inside Russia
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 5
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Do you actually know anything about this case? do you know the people involved, or are you just parroting what what was a very professionally done video which may, for all you know, be an absolute pack of lies?
kraus2604 2 years ago
i know everything and every body. i know a man sits in some terrible jail, awaiting his fate, because he refused to leave the country, because he had done nothing wrong!...tell me what do you know?
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 4
It's called country risks. Any investor should be aware of it prior the decision. Current Russian realities are tougher than ever, though.
boltee97 2 years ago
Mr. Browder = Mr. Medoff
DaRussiaCom 2 years ago
Freedom for sir Allen Stanford from FBI!
Financial freedom for all financial pyramids! Long live crisis and idiocy!
Sergeyspb2009 2 years ago
Mr. Browder and Mr. Medoff to need to help - we know as!
Sergeyspb2009 2 years ago
that's peanuts if you compare the values to america. millions trillions gazillions. thanks for posting the video though!
drusha1 2 years ago 2
I must confess to a frisson of delight to think that Earl Browder's grandson is getting screwed by the Russians.When the grandson of the Secretary-General of the US Communist Party and admirer of Stalin gets screwed by Stalin's descendents the irony is delightful.
ocnusgb 2 years ago
why am i not surprised
owl975 2 years ago 4
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theyre saying the russian version had OVER 12,000 VIEWS....
maybe im mistaken...but isnt that just barely above no views at all?
230 million dollars is a drop in the bucket anyways, what the fuck is wrong with these people?
yes its bad...but who gives a FUCK about something so petty when there are real world issues we could be concerned with...
DandMrB 2 years ago
How long does Browder have to live? How long before he is poisoned? Can you imagine this guy looking over his shoulder constantly, every day?
Kafakaesque, indeed.
Amazing work, this. Thanks for your service to world justice, Mr. Browder.
PaulRyanJr 2 years ago 11
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Did'ent the western bankers rob Russia dry in the 90s...not once, but TWICE?
Its corruption, thought its best not to throw stones when you live in a Greenhouse. I'm sure Hermitage has been doing business the Russian way very sucessfully, so all can't be whiter than white with their business methods.
No point crying about it, its a game played all over the world with vast amounts of electronic money, this time the turnover was 'wrong' apparently...
BringBack500s 2 years ago
This is Russia who wants to be part of a democratic and civilized world...... Well done Mr. Browder, congratulations on stand for good values, ones that Russia that's not know. The only language the Russian government speak is intimidation.
27Thalita 2 years ago 8
Russia will never be a great nation until they stamp out the worst of the corruption. This is the result of generations of communist socialism. It eats away at the foundation of society and leaves people with "relative morality". The "if it feels right than do" mentality has rotted Russian society from within. They have no true free market capitalism (just corruption and cronyism), no freedom of religion, no freedom of speech.
The effects of socialism! It has been eating at America for 80 years
XCritonX 2 years ago 2
What Mr. Browder has done takes extraodinary courage and conviction. It is time for all the darkness to be banished by light and hopefully JUSTICE...
bear1269 2 years ago 10
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
TheCitygirl5 2 years ago 6
That's Russia to you, people... I was born and lived a significant portion of my life in Russia. I know what I'm talking about. Do business with this unfortunate country on your own risk. Don't say you haven't been warned.