Seven months on, the tragic death of Hermitage Capital Management lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow detention center continues to resonate throughout Russian civil society. And understandably so: that the Federal Penitentiary Servicepartially admitted guilt in the matter, and that Moscow businesswoman Vera Trifonova died in the same facilityunder startlingly similar conditions just months later, attests to the systematic nature of Russia’s mistreatment of detainees.
In a particularly unique expression of civil discontent, a Moscow theater has staged an unexpectedly successful play based on Magnitsky’s daily journal. Radio Free Liberty/Radio Europe reports:
The small theater stage is the world and all the people on it are to be judged, says the director ofa play based on the diary of a Russian lawyer who died in prison last year.
The production — based on the daily writings of Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in ...
