Wealth, Power, and Paradoxes in Russia

Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) pioneered a brand-new market after the fall of The Iron Curtain while making powerful enemies — including Vladimir Putin. He is the author of Red Notice and Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath.

• The real purpose of disinformation: not to convince you that it's presenting accurate facts, but to cast a seed of doubt over the credibility of the position it's opposing.
• How a timely tweet upon being arrested by potentially Russia-corrupted police officers in Spain may have saved Bill Browder's life.
• How the Magnitsky Act came about and what it does to sanction Russian human rights violators and kleptocrats.
• How the power of Interpol is regularly abused by genocidal policymakers to retrieve escaped prisoners from "safe" havens.
• Bill's thoughts on why Putin is making his move in Ukraine now, and what he hopes to accomplish there.
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/681

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