The resolution passed 461-1, with only one Republican Congress member, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voting against it.
U.S. lawmakers passed a resolution Thursday condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government for the murder of opposition figures in Russia, including former politician and activist Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in February 2015 outside the Kremlin.
“Boris Nemtsov was a Russian statesman who, over 25 years of public service, served as a member of Parliament, governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and first deputy prime mnister of Russia,” Tuesday’s House resolution reads. Eliot Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the resolution “condemns the Kremlin's systematic targeting of its political opponents and calls on the administration to impose sanctions on those responsible for Nemtsov's murder and cover-up.”
Tuesday’s vote is a sign that the new Democrat-led Congress is beginning to get tough on the Russian government for its human rights violations and interference in foreign countries.
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