TODAY: Toxicology reports in Magnitsky-related death awaited, Medvedev slams Magnitsky List; new fraud claims against former ministers; HIV cases on the rise; MegaFon IPO at bottom of range; Lukashenko fuels Putin injury rumours.

Detectives are still awaiting the results of toxicology tests on 44-year-old Alexander Perepilichnyy, an informant in the Sergei Magnitsky case who was found dead at his home earlier this month. ‘According to Hermitage, Perepilichnyy was a key witness against one of Russia’s most notorious criminal gangs, the “Klyuev group”.’ Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has attacked the U.S. for linking the new Magnitsky List to the now-defunct Jackson-Vanik amendment, calling it ‘a huge mistake’.  The Interior Ministry has called former Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik as a witness in a $16 million fraud investigation relating to state-owned farm equipment leasing firm Rosagrolizing; Skrynnik calls the accusations libel.  A former FSB officer linked to Boris Berezovsky has been detained over an alleged $1.5 million fraud.  Last weekend’s revolt at a prison in the Urals city of Kopeisk was unusual for its size and the amount of attention it drew, says the Moscow TImes.  HIV cases are on the rise in Russia, with a 12% increase in the number of new cases this year, year-on-year.  The EU’s new special representative for human rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, has promised to raise rights issues in his dialogues with Russia.