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Dmitry Kratov, the only official charged with the death of Russian whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, sits in a court in Moscow last Friday. Dr. Kratov walked free later that day after the court acquitted him of negligence in a case that has become a rallying point for human rights advocates and sparked escalating legislation in the US and Russia. (Misha Japaridze/AP)

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The US recently enacted legislation targeting those Russian officials involved in the 2009 death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, spurring an angry reaction from the Kremlin.

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