MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow expressed outraged on Wednesday over the U.S. Senate’s approval of a bill that would penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses, and warned Americans that adoption of the sanctions would strain U.S.-Russian relations. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the “Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act,” named after an anti-corruption lawyer whose death in jail in 2009 while in pre-trial detention has drawn widespread condemnation. Despite broad support in Congress, the bill’s future remains uncertain, partly because U.S. …
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