Government more fully realized than in the Russian Federation. Russia has been on a steady path for the authoritarianism ever since putin entered the scene a teen years ago. Since then a new generation has entered adulthood, one that does not remember a russia before the enputin. As these young men and women enteentered the workforce to confront institutions in both the public and private sectors that have been completely assimilated into the architecture and are left with a choice to either be coopted into this system or ejected from it. While putin is a central figure responsible for russias descent into the rule, he is not the only one. The strawmen of the kremlin is surrounded by a loyal group who aided anaid and abet the presid, complicit in the robbery of the russian people in the sad state of russian democracy. Moreover, they enable the kremlin to export its brand into neighboring countries, transforming corruption into a potent geostrategic weapon. Our briefing today will exami
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I reconvene our hearing. I gave my Opening Statement yesterday. I dont have anything to add to it but i got a few housekeeping things to take care of. Im disappointed that the twohour rule was invoked to shut down this hearing before we could hear from mr. Browders testimony. He traveled from overseas to be here to testify about the efforts to manipulate our government media. This is an important topic to discuss. If the other party is truly serious about getting to the bottom of the russian interference they should hear him out. Mr. Browder, i thank you very much for changing your travel plans to be here. I will introduce items into the record. The first is a letter by the Human Rights Foundation. He and others uncovered a corruption scheme and a Foreign Company laundering money through j. P. Morgan. He claims that the Foreign Company hired fusion gps planted slanderous news items and intimidated journalists who were going report on the corruption scheme. The second is by lee smith ti
Accessing u. S. Banks, and the use of the u. S. Banking system. The committee is chaired by charles grassley. It was moderated by senator chuck grassley. I reconvene our hearing, i gave my Opening Statement yesterday, so i do not have anything to add to it but i have a few housekeeping things to take care of. I am disappointed that the two hour rule was invoked to shut down this hearing before we could hear from mr. Router r yesterday. He has traveled from overseas to be here today to testify about russias efforts to manipulate the government media. This is an important topic to discuss. If the other party is truly serious about getting to the bottom of the russian interference investigation, they should hear them out. I thank you hear very much for changing your travel plans to be here. This committee very much appreciate your thing is to stay here today. I am going to introduce items into the record, three in number. The first is a statement by the president of the Human Rights Found