“Since 2009, 13,195 bills had been proposed, and only 386 had made it out of committee and been voted in to law. The very next day, the adoption ban was voted on in the Duma, and in spite of Lavrov’s wish that it make a “balanced decision,†420 members voted for it and only 7 voted against. A week later, on December 28, Putin signed the adoption ban into law. The Magnitsky Act had taken two and half years to become law in the United States; Russia’s anti–Magnitsky Act took two and a half weeks. Browder, Bill. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (p. 360). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Browder, Bill. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (p. 355). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. ”
