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The death of the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial detention in a Moscow prison in November 2009 was a horrific crime, with serious implications for the development of the rule of law in post-Soviet Russia. Congress is right to be concerned. 

But the legislation recently introduced to address the Magnitsky case neither furthers the cause of democratic development in Russia nor provides justice for his apparent murder. And it would be a mistake, as some have suggested, to use it as a "replacement" if and when Congress does graduate Russia from the provisions of the Jackson-Vanik amendment.

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