Investigators have ruled for the first time (and in contradiction of previous expert findings) that lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in pre-trial detention was ‘direct[ly] caused‘ by a lack of medical treatment. Rights activist Valery Borshckev welcomed the news, but said that the committee was keeping silent about a beating which, he says, was the real cause of death.  The Presidential human rights council says that this new conclusion matches last year’s Public Oversight Commission report.  Family members are concerned that the ruling will take heat away from case investigators; the Washington Post paints the news as a direct rejection of the outcome desired by international observers, (i.e., to charge officers involved, not doctors).  The Netherlands has voted unanimously to support the entry ban and asset freeze, currently being considered by U.S. and E.U. authorities, that would apply to Russian officials implicated in the case.  A former British Ambassador to Russia is calling on UK authorities to ban Magnitsky-related officials and make their ‘abhorrence at what has happened […] publicly clear‘.  During talks held yesterday on the sidelines of a Nato-Russia Council meeting in Sochi, Moscow accused the alliance of implementing a UN resolution on Libya to suit its own ends. ‘We want this resolution to be fulfilled literally, without expanding its interpretation,‘ said Sergei Lavrov.  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen continues to insist that the organization is ‘a partner that Russia can trust‘.