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Widow Natalia Zharikova grieves over her husband Sergei Magnitsky's body during his funeral at a cemetery in Moscow
Wednesday, Dec. 09, 2009

Open quoteWe were surprised to find that civil society still exists in Russia.Close quote

  • VADIM KLEINER,
  • a colleague of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison, on the uproar that occurred after the release of Magnitsky's letters describing the squalid prison conditions he endured
Photo: Mikhail Voskresensky / Reuters | Source: WASHINGTON POST