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The latest episode of The Power of One, a Maclean's podcast, tells the story of the brilliant tax lawyer who died defending rule of law in Vladimir Putin's Russia

Two years ago, Canadian MPs unanimously passed a bill bearing the name of a Russian tax lawyer of whom many in this country had never heard: Sergei Magnitsky.

But who was Sergei Magnitsky? How did he come to symbolize rule-of-law at a time when it is under attack in countries around the world? Magnitsky died 10 years ago this month—tortured and killed in a Moscow prison after exposing corruption and theft within the government of Vladimir Putin. He’d been urged to flee his homeland, but chose instead to stay and fight for what’s right. He believed in the possibility of a Russia where justice and truth prevailed.

 

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