Sergei Magnitsky Articles

It is not usually difficult to get William Hague to use words. He is the master wordsmith of parliament. He uses words to great effect to hammer down on opponents or with stiletto wit to disarm and win his argument by getting MPs to laugh in agreement. But yesterday,...

The prime minister’s flying visit to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly today is mission undeliverable, even if many may feel Cameron has a good case. But the way he has pandered to the worst atavistic elements of the Europhobe right and the clamour of the...

In a powerful documentary on Putin's Russia made by Norma Percy to be shown on BBC2 on 19 January there is an extraordinary moment when the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky confronts the recently elected President Putin. On film he tells him that Russia is so corrupt up...