December 29, 2009 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Dec 29, 2009

sh.jpgTODAY: Official report condemns circumstances of Magnitsky death; Youtube policeman arrest warrant released; child laborers freed from sweatshop; Pikalyovo-style road blockers to face jail under new bill.  Medvedev talks of reform.  Tbilisi-Moscow flights resume; Putin voices concerns over US missile defense; petty theft; Isaac Schwartz

The Moscow Public Oversight Commission has released an officially mandated 20-page report which condemns the torturous’ conditions under which Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died.  The report apparently suggests that the imprisoned lawyer was deliberately denied medical care, and that the investigation into his death was willfully obstructed.  One of the commission’s investigators has noted with fear that what appeared to be the neglect of Magnitsky, ‘was, to some extent, as terrible as it is to say, a premeditated murder’.   Prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Youtube corruption blasting police Major Alexei Dymovsky on charges of office abuse.  Fifteen Kyrgyz minors working in lamentable conditions in an illegal clothes factory outside of Moscow have been freed by police.  According to Russia Today, it is thought that around 2,000 children work in sweatshops in Russia.  A new government bill would establish fines and prison terms for protesters who block roads.