ties with power players like the deputy head of russia s central bank, a former senator and putin ally. you consider him a friend? absolutely. senator torson is a gun enthusiast and a big proponent of the right to bear arms. reporter: that s why for the first time this year, when american gun lovers went to russia to compete in a shooting match, torson was right there, sharing a table with team russia at the medal ceremony. he s a regular at n prrks a meetings, tweeting pictures with the former nra president. they were introduced by klein preston. other christian conservatives are having the same change of heart, inviting a delegation from the russian orthodox church to the first ever christian persecution summit this spring, organized by another putin fan,
the bill is passed. majority leader. it placed personal sanctions on the people said to be accused of the crime. putin took that very personally. translator: do you think that no one ever dies in american jails or what? of course they do. and so what. do i have to make a story out of each and every one of these cases. yes, we should according to this activist. strikes at the heart of the system of corruption and hypocrisy that we have in power in in our country for the past seven years. a russia also testified in support of the act. that put him in the kremlin s cross hairs. people who are opposed to the current government like my colleagues like me, are denounced as traitors. but of course slander and even imprisonment are no longer the biggest dangers that face those who dare to oppose vladimir
all. he s perfected the art of controlling every detail to achieve his own goals. all you really see when you look putin in the eye is exactly what he wants you to see. so far, he s been winning every round in the long game he s playing against the u.s., but what is that game? foreign policy analysts like to say that trump is playing checkers while putin is playing chess. but that according to the world s most famous chess master is an insult to the game. putin is a dictator and dictat dictator s by definition don t play chess. i would rather say he s playing a poker game. he s a poker player? he s a poker player. he s a gambler and knows his cards are not good but also, he s a good mind reader. so is president trump playing with vladimir putin or being played by putin? he s definitely playing into putin s hands. whether trump pushes upon or drop a card, all are being
sometimes it isn t clear if they were murdered or died of natural causes. the only thing we know is that putin s enemies have a way of turning up dead and that evidence has a way of being meticulously covered up. so we thought we d take a moment to remind ourselves of that body count. like anna, the investigative journalist who wouldn t stop, despite death threats, despite being poisoned, shot to death as she was getting on the elevator of her building, or the russia spy who deflected. poisoned by radioactive material slipped into his tea at a meeting in london. and of course boris nemtsov, the fiery leader of the opposition in russia shot five times in the back right in front of the kremlin. but these are just the famous ones.
the view. five muslim separatists were convicted of the murder last week but human rights groups suggest that they are just patsys. either way, another powerful russian voice against putin and for the magnitsky act was silenced. this is the most pro-russian law ever passed in any foreign parliament. and if you were to ske many what is the most likely reason for somebody trying to kill me twice in two years, i think it s that. because you supported u.s. sanctions against russia, the please don t say that. these are not sanctions against russia. they re sanctions against crooks. i am russian, my colleagues are russian. boris nemtsov was a russian. even if standing up is the definition of russian patriotism, then there still are patriots left in russia. this law representing magnitsky s family. he happened to find in a moscow court a cashe of documents which appeared to show that stolen money ended up in dubai and switzerland but also in new york city where it was used to buy hi