Rights law poisons US-Russia ties: Putin

“This is very bad. This, of course, poisons our relationship,” Putin said during an annual news conference on Thursday.

His remarks regarding the law known as Magnitsky Act come a day after the Russian parliament approved a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.

Analysts say Wednesday’s move was in retaliation for the US law.

Russia previously suspended US adoptions temporarily, citing abuse of Russian children in the United States. The two countries, however, agreed on a bilateral agreement that gave Russia more oversight of adoptions.


Earlier in December, the Russian president censured the Magnitsky Act as “purely political and unfriendly.”

The US Congress passed the Magnitsky Act on December 6.

The law named after Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in Moscow in 2009 while in custody, bars Russians accused of violating human rights entry to the US.

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