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Whereas Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law 
Accountability Act of 2012 (title IV of Public Law 112– 
208) and the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Account-
ability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114– 
328) in 2016 to provide the United States Government 
with authorities to respond to grave violations of human 
rights and corruption in Russia; and 
Whereas in response to the Novichok-class nerve agent attack 
described in this preamble against United Kingdom na-
tional and former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his 
daughter Yulia in 2018, the United States Government 
imposed two rounds of sanctions on Russia pursuant to 
the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and War-
fare Elimination Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–182; 22 
U.S.C. 5601 et seq.): Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the apparently purposeful poisoning 
on August 20, 2020, of Russian anticorruption activist 
and opposition leader Alexei Navalny; 
(2) expresses its appreciation for the prompt and 
generous efforts of the Cinema for Peace Foundation 
and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany 
to ensure high-quality health care for Mr. Navalny after 
he was poisoned by facilitating his transfer by airlift 
from Russia to Germany; 
(3) welcomes reports that Mr. Navalny has emerged 
from a medically induced coma and is gradually recov-
ering from the poisoning;
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(4) hopes for Mr. Navalny’s full and complete re-
covery so that he may promptly resume his life and 
work; 
(5) urges the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe and multilateral human rights mon-
itoring bodies to monitor the case of the August 2020 
poisoning of Alexei Navalny as a probable violation of 
his fundamental human rights and to respond accord-
ingly; 
(6) calls on the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion to cooperate with independent, impartial, and thor-
ough investigations by competent authorities and the Or-
ganization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons of 
the reported poisoning of Alexei Navalny; 
(7) calls on the United States Government to sup-
port international or multilateral efforts to ensure an 
independent, impartial, and thorough investigations by 
competent authorities and the Organization for the Pro-
hibition of Chemical Weapons of the reported poisoning 
of Alexei Navalny; 
(8) urges the United States Government, in all its 
interactions with the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion, to raise the case of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny 
and underscore the necessity of bringing the organizers 
and perpetrators to justice;
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(9) calls on the Secretary of State and the Sec-
retary of the Treasury to use their authority under the 
Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 
2012 (title IV of Public Law 112–208) and the Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F 
of title XII of Public Law 114–328) to designate individ-
uals whom they determine upon investigation to have 
been involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny as per-
petrators, organizers, or masterminds, on the list of spe-
cially designated nationals and blocked persons main-
tained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the 
Department of the Treasury, freezing their assets and 
making them ineligible to receive United States visas; 
and 
(10) supports the 60-day review period triggered by 
the submission of a letter to the President by the Chair 
and Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee 
of the House of Representatives to investigate whether 
the poisoning of Alexei Navalny constitutes use of a 
chemical weapon by the Government of the Russian Fed-
eration in contravention of international law, and if so, 
to impose sanctions pursuant to the Chemical and Bio-
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logical Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 
1991 (Public Law 102–182; 22 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.). 
Attest: 
Clerk.