said I think that [the United States Congress] will soon get tired of [the Magnitsky Act] . (8) On July 16, 2018, during a joint press conference with President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland, Vladimir Putin indicated the interest of the Government of the Russian Federation in questioning officials of the Government of the United States and others involved in the passage and implementation of the Magnitsky Act. (9) As of July 2018, 49 individuals in the Russian Federation, including those with close ties to Vladimir Putin, have been sanctioned pursuant to the Magnitsky Act. (10) As of July 2018, Canada and the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and other countries in Europe continue to adopt or further efforts to develop their own versions of the Magnitsky Act. (11) On August 2, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( Public Law 115–44 ), which, among other things, imposes a slate of mandatory sanctions on the Russian Federation and requires congressional review and provides for possible congressional disapproval of actions by the executive branch to lift United States sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation. 2. Congressional review and continued applicability of sanctions under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 Section 216(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017 ( 22 U.S.C. 9511(a)(2)(B)(i) ) is amended— (1) in subclause (II), by striking