A bill to require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats and human rights abusers.
Bill: S.2986 | Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. (D-MD)
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill requires the President to report to Congress a determination as to whether certain specified Russian persons meet the criteria to be subject to sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
Russian persons specified in this bill include businessperson Roman Abramovich, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

To require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats 
                       and human rights abusers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REVIEW OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIAN KLEPTOCRATS AND 
              HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS.

    (a) Determination With Respect to Imposition of Sanctions.--Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
determination, including a detailed justification, of whether any 
person listed in subsection (b) meets the criteria for the imposition 
of sanctions pursuant to section 1263(b) of the Global Magnitsky Human 
Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114-
328; 22 U.S.C. 2656).
    (b) Persons Listed.--The persons listed in this subsection, which 
include Russian persons and current and former officials of the 
Government of the Russian Federation, are the following:
            (1) Roman Abramovich, businessman.
            (2) Denis Bortnikov, Deputy President and Chairman of the 
        Management Board of VTB Bank.
            (3) Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Management 
        Board of VTB Bank.
            (4) Dmitry Patrushev, Minister of Agriculture.
            (5) Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the State Development 
        Corporation VEB.
            (6) Alisher Usmanov, businessman.
            (7) Oleg Deripaska, businessman.
            (8) Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of 
        Gazprom.
            (9) Igor Sechin, Chairman of the Management Board of 
        Rosneft.
            (10) Gennady Timchenko, businessman.
            (11) Nikolai Tokarev, Chairman of Transneft.
            (12) Andrey Vorobyev, Governor of the Moscow Region XIII.
            (13) Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health.
            (14) Vladimir Solovyev, media personality.
            (15) Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Investigative 
        Committee.
            (16) Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security 
        Service (FSB).
            (17) Konstantin Ernst, Chief Executive Officer of Channel 
        One TV station.
            (18) Victor Gavrilov, Head of the Department of Transport 
        of the Economic Security Service.
            (19) Dmitry Ivanov, Head of Chelyabinsk FSB.
            (20) Alexander Kalashnikov, Director of the Federal 
        Penitentiary Service (FSIN).
            (21) Sergei Kirienko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential 
        Administration.
            (22) Elena Morozova, Judge of Khimki District Court.
            (23) Denis Popov, Chief Prosecutor of Moscow.
            (24) Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of RT.
            (25) Igor Yanchuk, Head of the Khimki Police Department.
            (26) Victor Zolotov, Director of the National Guard.
            (27) Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg.
            (28) Yuri Chaika, former Prosecutor General.
            (29) Andrei Kartapolov, Deputy Defense Minister.
            (30) Pavel Krasheninnikov, Parliamentarian and former 
        Justice Minister.
            (31) Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian 
        Federation.
            (32) Ella Pamfilova, Head of Central Electoral Commission.
            (33) Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Press Secretary.
            (34) Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow.
            (35) Anton Vaino, Head of the Presidential Administration.
    (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
        Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
        Financial Services of the House of Representatives.
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