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Jan 2024
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Putin’s nemesis in the west

Financial Times
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Bill Browder tells Gideon the story of his battle against Russian corruption, which took off when his lawyer was murdered in a Russian prison in 2009. The war in Ukraine has turbocharged his campaign. Can he now take it further to persuade western governments to use frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine? Clip: World Economic Forum


Free links to read more on this topic:

Washington puts forward G7 plan to confiscate $300bn in Russian assets

The west would harm itself with rash seizures of frozen Russian assets

We must keep fighting Russia with banks as well as tanks

Freezing Order — Bill Browder on the trail of dirty Russian money


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