Hermitage mourns Sergei Magnitsky

“What is clear is that the abuses he suffered during his final year were what ultimately caused his death.”

The death of Sergei Magnitsky may not be in vain. In what we can only hope will be a tipping point for the correction of the vile injustices routinely perpetrated upon the country’s seekers of justice -- its activists, journalists, and lawyers -- Russia has recently taken some small steps to gain control of what a June report by the Council of Europe described as a Kafkaesque criminal justice system.

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