Reports in from Ria-Novosti state that one official has been dismissed over the death in prison of real estate agent Vera Trifonova, who died of kidney failure whilst held on fraud charges.  Trifonova died in the same jail where Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky also spent his last days in agony, having been denied the correct medial treatment for pancreatitis.  An article in the Other Russia notes the chilling similarities, with the implication being that this prison uses wilfull neglect as an economical way of torturing their prisoners:

Trifonova’s lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, told the rights organization Justice that his client was refused proper medical care to such an extent as to constitute an intent towards her “physical destruction.”

According to a press release from the organization, medics had diagnosed the businesswoman with severe diabetes and had determined that she had only one working kidney.