![]() He does not look like a threat to Russian national security, which the Kremlin declared him to be 12 years ago. ![]() Browder is 53 years old, medium build, medium height, medium demeanor, and was wearing a medium-blue suit. Afternoon light washed through a wall of windows, threw bright highlights onto his scalp, sparked off the frame of his glasses. We were in the conference room of his offices in London. He spoke softly, methodically, though with great efficiency not scripted, but well practiced. If anything does happen to him, he reasons, the list of suspects would be short. (And technically it's an allegation that Putin has people killed, albeit one so thoroughly supported by evidence and circumstance that no one credibly disputes it.) Rather, he told me that by way of explaining why he was telling me anything at all: The more often and publicly he tells the story of Sergei Magnitsky, the less likely he'll be to get poisoned or shot or tossed out a window, which has happened to a number of Putin's critics. So he tends to kill people he can get away with killing."īrowder did not say this as if it were a revelation. But Putin likes to pretend that he doesn't kill people. "Putin kills people," Browder said to me one afternoon this autumn. ![]() But if he'd known about it in real time-that the staff of a major-party presidential candidate was listening intently to those who accuse him of murder and want him extradited and imprisoned-he would have been terrified. Browder wasn't sure what the implications were. ![]()
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