Bill Browder — activist (magnitsky act) with roots in the Russian Empire
Bill Browder built a fortune investing in post-Soviet Russia, then became Putin's most prominent Western adversary after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and killed in Russian custody in 2009.
"Earl Browder's family emigrated from the Russian Empire's Jewish Pale in the late 19th century."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Grandson of Earl Browder, the leader of the US Communist Party, who lived in Moscow and married a Russian woman. Bill became Putin's #1 enemy.
Browder's grandfather Earl Browder led the Communist Party USA and was born to a Russian Jewish immigrant family from the Pale of Settlement. That lineage drew Bill to Russia as an investor in the 1990s, and its betrayal defined his life's mission.
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Grandson of Earl Browder, the leader of the US Communist Party, who lived in Moscow and married a Russian woman. Bill became Putin's #1 enemy.. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.