Whilst President Medvedev was doing his best to divert the WEF’s attention away from corruption, legal nihilism and security issues at his keynote address in Davos, tireless anti-corruption campaigner and badly-burned investor Hermitage founder Bill Browder was on another mission.  Browder took first deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov to task in person on the failure of the Kremlin to oversee an adequate investigation into the murder of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.  Some excerpts from Reuters:

“The president of the country called for an investigation into the people who killed my lawyer,” Browder told a panel chaired by Russia’s first deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and a hall packed with Western executives.

“One year after the investigation people who killed the lawyer have been promoted higher by state orders… My question to you, Igor, is what will prevent other investors to have the same experience after my experience in Russia,” he said at the discussion, entitled “Russia’s Next Steps to Modernisation.”