; 22 U.S.C. 5811 note) (in this section referred to as the Magnitsky Act ), which imposes visa bans and asset freezes on those involved in the Sergei Magnitsky case and other officials responsible for gross human rights abuses in the Russian Federation, was signed into law. (2) On December 28, 2012, in response to the Magnitsky Act, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that banned citizens of the United States from adopting Russian children, impacting the lives of hundreds of Russian orphans and the families in the United States that they were slated to join. The bill, which also banned United States-funded civic groups from operating in the Russian Federation, sparked massive protests in Moscow. (3) On April 13, 2013, one day after the United States issued its first sanctions designations under the Magnitsky Act on 18 officials of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation issued a retaliatory list of 18 officials of the Government of the United States who are banned from entering the Russian Federation. (4) On June 13, 2013, in testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, now-slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov called the Magnitsky Act the most pro-Russian law in the history of any foreign parliament . (5) On July 11, 2013, following an unprecedented posthumous trial that many observers noted fell short of international fair trial standards, a court in the Russian Federation found Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion. (6) On June 9, 2016, senior members of the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin to discuss the adoption policy of the Russian Federation after the Magnitsky Act. (7) On February 9, 2018, Vladimir Putin 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