Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare a response to U.S. visa sanctions imposed against a number of Russian officials over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Slapping the sanctions prior to the completion of the investigation into the case is an utterly irrelevant move that arouses dismay, Medvedev’s spokesperson Natalia Timakova said. Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer with the UK-based Hermitage Capital hedge fund, died in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow in 2009, allegedly from lack of medical aid, while awaiting trial on charges of tax evasion and fraud.
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