Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

03 February 2012 Russia better clean up its act if it wants investment dollars

Reuters TV. Russia is opening up and looking to grow, but investors are scared, says Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Investment. Watch and listen as he and Chrystia Freeland dish in a closed-door session on Russian investment opportunities, held last week in Davos, Switzerland.

03 February 2012 Russia 2012 forum highlights the need to separate government and economy

Gazeta.Ru. Mass privatization, power body reforms, creation of a competitive political system and the pardon of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – these are the steps that foreign investors are waiting for from the Russian ruling elite, as the annual “Russia 2012″ economic forum showed.

31 January 2012 A Partial Declaration of Human Rights

Transitions Online. For years, Russia has tolerated the State Department’s annual criticism of its human rights situation, but not anymore. It was in April that Moscow finally lost patience. If America would not stop poking it with the human rights stick, it said (though not in precisely those words), Russia would pick up the stick, too. It appointed a human rights commissioner and promised to publish probes of its own.

30 January 2012 Lawyers accuse Magnitsky investigator of exceeding powers – Hermitage

Interfax. The Moscow Bar Association has rejected a request by a Russian investigator, who asked for a defense attorney to be appointed for the family of late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky against their will, the company said.

30 January 2012 Does the Trail to Magnitsky’s Killers Lead All the Way to the Top?

Minding Russia Blog. An interesting bit of news from a Financial Times blog with Davos gossip: The most gripping exchange came right at the end when Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital – once the biggest foreign investors in Russia and now a bitter critic – asked the panel about the notorious death in police custody of Sergei Magnitsky, his lawyer and auditor.

30 January 2012 Russia Davos party has unusual opposition flavour

Reuters. Kremlin clan in-fighting spilled into the open this week when government officials sympathetic with Russia’s fragmented opposition warned the country’s ultimate leader Vladimir Putin he may soon lose power if he doesn’t undertake sweeping reforms.

30 January 2012 Russia Criticized for Corruption at Davos Forum

Fox News. Russia is hugely represented here at the World Economic Forum. Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital takes issue with that. “There are so many examples of high level government crime in Russia that it’s almost ridiculous that Russia is allowed to come here as a country displaying its wares. It’s like inviting the Cali drug cartel to Davos.”

29 January 2012 British Prime Minister Calls for Russian Authorities to Show Progress in the Magnitsky Case

British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the Magnitsky case “extremely important” and urged for “more progress” to be made by the Russian authorities. Speaking this week at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, British Prime Minister stated he had personally raised the Magnitsky case with Russian President Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Putin during his official visit to Moscow last fall. David Cameron encouraged leaders of other European nations ”never to be coy” in raising this and other cases of human rights abuse with the Russian government.

27 January 2012 Russia, Davos and the rule of law

Financial Times. Planning to invest in Russia? Here’s a reason to think again, courtesy of our colleague Gideon Rachman, blogging from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Even Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s deputy prime minister (pictured), was unable to give potential investors the assurances they wanted when speaking about the notorious death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

The death in prison of Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian lawyer, remains one of the darkest scandals in the blotchy history of Russia's criminal justice system. One year on, this documentary brings the full details of his tragic story to light.

Sergei Magnitsky was falsely arrested and tortured to death in pre-trial detention by the Russian Interior Ministry officers, whom he had caught stealing and whom he testified against. Despite the mountain of evidence against the officers, the Russian Government is currently treating his arrest as legitimate and his death in custody as an accident.

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