The signing of a partnership agreement between the Russian Federation and North Korea and the deepening of military cooperation between these authoritarian countries should be the final push for the US Congress to recognize Putin's Russia as a state sponsor of global terrorism. Two US Senators, both Democrat and Republican, have stated this.
"The signed agreement between Putin and Kim Jong-un is deeply frightening and hostile not only to the United States, but to peace, freedom, and justice around the world. Two of the world's most autocratic leaders who commit atrocities stand together and sponsor terrorism... Russia deserves to be in this small, selective club of murderers who commit atrocities," Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said, according to Voice of America.
They explicitly mentioned, for example, the poisoning of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, the poisoning of former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 350 in the Donetsk region in 2014, support for the aerial bombing of Aleppo, Syria in 2016, the poisoning of former Russian military officer and British double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018, and the suspicious death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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Let us not forget Anna Politkovskaya, Sergei Magnitsky, Boris Nemtsov, Irina Slavina and many other brave Russians who have refused to remain silent. JŠ
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