- 13:20 30/05/2012 ROME, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
A group of Italian deputies is proposing banning access to Italy for Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow pre-trial detention center.
- 16:19 29/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will take retaliatory measures if the United States replaces the Soviet-era Jackson-Vanik amendment hampering Russian-U.S. trade with new “anti-Russian laws” related to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian presidential aide said on Tuesday.
- 19:03 21/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russia considers it unacceptable for other countries to interfere in its domestic court trial over the late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky charged with tax evasion, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 14:40 03/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will not leave U.S. “attempts to interfere in our domestic affairs” without response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday, referring to visa sanctions imposed on Russian officials allegedly linked to the controversial death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow pretrial detention center.
- 13:13 28/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow's Judicial Qualification Committee has suspended a judge who was previously involved in the Sergei Magnitsky scandal, from his post as chairman of the Tverskoy district court, Kommersant daily reported on Saturday.
- 19:57 26/04/2012 STRASBOURG, April 26 (RIA Novosti)
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has received a motion to consider a resolution on lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in custody, the head of Russia’s delegation said.
- 04:27 25/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 25 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. administration continues to support a bill imposing sanctions on Russian officials allegedly linked to the death in custody of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the U.S. Department of State spokesperson said.
- 15:05 20/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti)
An updated bill imposing a visa ban and asset freeze on Russian officials allegedly linked to the death in custody of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, as well as on “individuals responsible for other gross violations of human rights” in Russia has been introduced in the U.S. Congress.
- 11:48 12/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov strongly rejected on Thursday attempts by some U.S. lawmakers to link the repeal of the Soviet-era Jackson-Vanik amendment hampering Russian-U.S. trade with the adoption of new “anti-Russian laws” related to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 03:28 11/04/2012 WASHINGTON, April 11 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s investigation into the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been “inadequate,” U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said.
- 14:15 09/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti)
Prosecutors have closed a criminal case against a doctor at the pre-trial detention facility where 37-year-old lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died because the charges brought against her have been decriminalized, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Monday.
- 19:03 03/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti)
A Moscow court turned down an appeal by the mother of Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who died in remand prison in 2009, against the posthumous reopening of a criminal case against her son, a RAPSI correspondent reported from the court room.
- 05:43 28/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 28 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations may discuss in April a 2011 bill to impose sanctions on Russian officials implicated in the detention death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
- 19:30 23/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russian diplomats denounced the call by Swedish lawmakers for a Europe-wide blacklist of Russian officials implicated in the prison death of whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 15:28 14/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti)
The recent steps by western countries introducing travel bans against Russian officials linked to the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 are nothing but a PR stunt, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 12:16 12/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti)
Swedish lawmakers have requested the government to press for a European asset freeze and travel ban against Russian officials linked to the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009, the Hermitage Capital fund said on Monday.
- 13:52 11/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 11 (RIA Novosti)
Sergei Magnitsky, the lawyer working for Hermitage Capital who died in remand prison in 2009, never found any evidence of corruption among senior Moscow officials, the Russian Interior Ministry’s Investigation Department Deputy Chief Alexander Yagodin said on Sunday.
- 14:34 08/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 8 (RIA Novosti)
British lawmakers have urged the government to impose an asset freeze and travel ban against Russian officials linked to the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009, the BBC reported.
- 17:00 01/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 1 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Investigation Department said it had completed all procedures needed to send to court the case against Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in Moscow pretrial detention in 2009.
- 16:38 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
The European Parliament's delegation for relations with Russia called on Wednesday for an asset freeze and visa ban for Russian officials linked to the high-profile death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
- 04:22 29/02/2012 LONDON, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
British lawmakers will discuss on March 7 whether to push for visa sanctions against a number of Russian officials over the controversial death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pretrial detention center, a spokeswoman for the British investment fund Hermitage Capital Management said.
- 18:48 27/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow City Court authorized opening a criminal case against Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in Moscow pretrial detention in 2009 of untreated health problems and, allegedly, a beating by prison guards.
- 05:38 10/02/2012 WASHINGTON, February 10 (RIA Novosti)
Days after Russian authorities decided to try lawyer Sergei Magnitsky posthumously, the U.S. Department of State reiterated its calls to bring those guilty for his death in detention to justice.
- 11:13 07/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
Investigators of the Interior Ministry said they were ready to submit the case of the late Sergei Magnitsky, a Hermitage Capital auditor, and Hermitage Capital CEO William Browder to court, Hermitage Capital said in a press release.
- 15:29 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
A probe into the case of two jail officers possibly involved in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been completed, Investigations Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.
- 19:07 27/12/2011 GORKI, December 27 (RIA Novosti)
The chairman of the Kremlin’s Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, on Tuesday handed a report on the analysis of the investigation into the death of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky over to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
- 18:13 08/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti)
Investigators have reopened a probe into late Sergei Magnitsky, a Hermitage Capital auditor, so that his family could use the right for his rehabilitation to clear him of tax evasion charges, a senior investigator said on Thursday.
- 17:23 28/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Kremlin’s Human Rights Council will set up a contact group with Russia’s Investigation Committee to monitor the investigation into the death of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky, the council’s chairman, Mikhail Fedotov, said on Monday.
- 12:05 28/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti)
Hermitage Capital investment fund on Monday released an in-depth and documented report accusing Russian officials of the false arrest, torture and pre-trial death of its auditor Sergei Magnitsky and the subsequent cover-up by Russian officials.
- 15:50 24/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Investigation against the suspects who may have been involved in the pretrial death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will continue until January 2012, Russia’s top investigator Alexander Bastrykin said on Thursday.
- 01:12 17/11/2011 WASHINGTON, November 17 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Department of State called on the Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the pretrial death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 02:36 16/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti)
Washington believes Moscow’s sanctions against U.S. officials are meant as a punishment for the U.S. travel ban on Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
- 15:20 10/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti)
Two U.S. lawmakers have demanded that the White House block a visit to the United States by two Russian generals they claim were involved in lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a Moscow jail two years ago.
- 19:19 03/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian response to the U.S. travel ban on Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky contains the same number of names, 11, a top Russian diplomat said on Thursday.
- 12:16 01/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Investigative Committee has announced the completion of the preliminary investigation of two doctors accused in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.
- 22:08 31/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 31 RIA Novosti
The Canadian Parliament is considering a bill to make the so-called Magnitsky List, which blacklists persons allegedly linked to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from entering Canada, the Parliament said on its website.
- 15:09 27/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia should make more frequent use of bail and house arrest as pre-trial restrictions, especially for critically ill and juvenile defendants, the Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Thursday.
- 15:11 26/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is worried by U.S. violations of international law and UN regulations , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
- 14:03 25/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti)
The list of ‘undesirable’ U.S. officials whom Moscow recently barred from entry to Russia is longer than the so-called Magnitsky List, which bans Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky from entering the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 16:29 24/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Moscow City Court on Monday upheld a lower court’s refusal to consider a plea from the mother of the late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to close a case against him on charges of tax evasion.
- 13:14 22/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has completed an initial "undesirables list" of individuals who will be refused entry into the country in response to the United States' so-called Magnitsky List, which blacklists Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky earlier in the year to entering the United States, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday.
- 20:59 21/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti)
The so-called Magnitsky list that bars entry to the U.S. for Russian officials allegedly involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, will not undermine relations between the two countries, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 18:00 18/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti)
The Netherlands hopes that people implicated in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will be punished, the country’s ambassador in Moscow said.
- 15:32 05/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 5 (RIA Novosti)
An investigator in the case of campaigning lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been arrested for demanding a $3 million bribe to drop charges in an unrelated customs fraud case.
- 23:43 03/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
Britain denied on Monday it had imposed an entry ban on at least 60 Russian officials implicated in the death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 14:30 03/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
At least 60 Russian officials implicated in the death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky have been banned from entering Britain.
- 18:39 26/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti)
Russian prosecutors are probing the hospitalization of two prison officials charged over the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 18:23 06/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Relatives of the late lawyer Sergei Magnitsky have requested that the tax evasion case against him prior to his death in a pre-trial detention center be dropped.
- 13:20 06/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Any Russian police officers found guilty of involvement in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky will face severe punishment, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Tuesday.
- 11:55 24/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Investigative Committee has extended its investigation into the controversial death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to November 24, 2011, an official spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 20:43 16/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti)
Washington's decision to impose travel restrictions on Russian officials over the Magnitsky case will not affect cooperation between Russia and the United States, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday.
- 17:47 12/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Investigation Committee charged two doctors over lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death in a pre-trial detention center, committee spokesman Sergei Markin said on Friday.
- 04:26 11/08/2011 WASHINGTON, August 11 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Department of State said on Thursday it was not notified by Russia about a retaliatory blacklist compiled in response to Washington's decision to impose travel restrictions on Russian officials over the Magnitsky case.
- 05:30 10/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow has prepared a blacklist of U.S. officials who will be banned from travelling to Russia in response to a U.S. blacklist of Russian officials linked to the controversial death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in detention, Russian daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday.
- 19:04 03/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti)
The defense lawyers of the mother of Hermitage Capital investment fund Sergei Magnitsky who died in a pre-detention center said the evidence in his death case was falsified, the fund's press service said on Wednesday.
- 16:41 03/08/2011 RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich
The Russian Prosecutor General's decision to reopen the tax evasion case against Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who represented the London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital and died in pretrial detention in late 2009, should be welcomed as a renewed effort to establish the truth.
- 05:32 02/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators have been ordered to reopen the case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, which had been closed after his death in police custody, Russia's Kommersant paper reported on Tuesday.
- 23:36 27/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 27 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it would respond to travel restrictions imposed by the United States on a number of officials allegedly responsible for lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death in detention.
- 14:21 27/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia should limit the Foreign Ministry's reaction to the introduction of U.S. State Department "black lists" of Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center in November 2009, a Russian top deputy official said.
- 15:24 18/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian presidential civil society and human rights council does not rule out that more law enforcement and state security officials could be prosecuted over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody, National Anticorruption Committee head Kirill Kabanov said on Monday.
- 12:38 18/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against two former pre-trial detention center staff, over the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody, the committee’s spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.
- 13:34 07/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 8 (RIA Novosti)
Officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Interior Ministry may be implicated in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in police custody, a member of the Kremlin's human rights council said on Thursday..
- 23:14 06/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 6 (RIA Novosti)
The death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial custody was likely to have been caused by a beating, the Kremlin's human rights council said in a report on Wednesday.
- 12:18 06/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
There were no legal grounds for the arrest of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights said in its preliminary conclusion.
- 23:54 05/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial custody was caused by criminal actions.
- 20:59 05/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
A Dutch parliamentary resolution on the death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is interference in Russia's internal affairs, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 23:43 04/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian investigators' findings that Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in jail because he did not receive adequate medical care match those of the president's human rights council, its head said.
- 18:21 04/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow jail because he did not receive medical assistance in a timely fashion, Russian investigators announced on Monday.
- 16:57 04/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow jail because he did not receive medical assistance in a timely fashion, Russian investigators announced on Monday.
- 20:01 30/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights will on July 5 send to President Dmitry Medvedev its conclusions on lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death in detention.
- 19:59 31/05/2011
The U.S. Senate's initiative to block Russian officials from entering the United States over lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death in detention is unacceptable pressure on the investigation, Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said on Tuesday.
- 19:26 30/05/2011
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office will continue to investigate the circumstances of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's death in detention, although it has cleared an investigator of all charges, an Investigative Committee spokesman said on Monday.
- 15:54 30/05/2011
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has established that the investigator who handled the Sergei Magnitsky case has done no wrong, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Monday.
- 15:12 25/05/2011
Human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said he was unable to participate in the investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky due to insufficient aspects in Russian law.
- 12:32 17/05/2011
The deadline of an investigation into the death in custody of Russian anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been extended until August 24, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
- 10:31 06/05/2011
The Swiss authorities have frozen the bank accounts of Russian tax officials alleged to have pulled off Russia's largest tax fraud, a U.S. magazine has said.
- 11:25 05/05/2011
The Russian Investigative Committee may soon order the arrest of Hermitage Capital head William Browder amid a controversial tax evasion case that led to the death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009, Kommersant daily reported on Thursday.
- 14:22 04/05/2011
A Moscow court suspended indefinitely on Wednesday the hearing of a tax evasion case against a former colleague of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 11:21 03/05/2011
A former colleague of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in pre-trail detention in 2009, faces arrest for evading tax payments as the head of the Russian branch of British investment company Hermitage Capital Management.
- 12:56 26/04/2011
The charges against Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody in 2009, were fabricated, according to preliminary results of an inquest conducted by the Russian presidential council on human rights, a council member told the Russian Kommersant FM radio station on Tuesday.
- 16:11 21/04/2011
Switzerland has opened a money-laundering probe against a former Russian tax official at the request of British investment company Hermitage Capital Management Ltd., the Barron's weekly said on Thursday.
- 15:00 06/04/2011
An advisory council to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says it is close to finishing a report into the death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
- 21:29 05/03/2011
A "black list" of Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergey Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center in November 2009 is illegal and deceitful, chairman of the Russian council of judges Yury Sidorenko said on Saturday.
- 16:57 10/02/2011
An investigation into the death of corporate lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in prison was extended to May, however no suspects in the incident have been established, Magnitsky's lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov said on Thursday.
- 22:35 20/01/2011
A UN investigation into the death in prison of corporate lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is impossible under Russian law, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 18:49 21/12/2010
The lower house of Russia's parliament approved on Tuesday a presidential bill allowing the release of severely ill suspects from custody following a series of high-profile pre-trial deaths.
- 18:50 16/12/2010
The European Parliament called Thursday on EU members to impose sanctions on Russian officials involved in the death in prison of corporate lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
- 22:53 09/12/2010
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the sanctions imposed on Russian officials by Canada over the death of Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, amount to pressure tactics.
- 16:15 25/11/2010
The European Parliament's sanctions against a group of Russian officials over the death of a whistleblower lawyer are an intrusion into Russia's domestic affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Glushko said on Thursday.
- 12:00 25/11/2010
Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov said on Thursday that Russia may respond to the European Parliament's decision to impose sanctions against Russian officials over the death of a detained lawyer.
- 17:22 24/11/2010
The foreign affairs committee of the lower house of Russia's parliament plans to discuss the European Parliament's sanctions against Russian officials over the death of a detained lawyer, a lawmaker said on Wednesday.
- 22:42 23/11/2010
A senior Russian lawmaker on Tuesday criticized the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee for approving sanctions against Russian officials.
- 01:09 17/11/2010
Russia should find and bring to justice those guilty of the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center, the U.S. State Department said.
- 22:15 15/11/2010
Russia's Interior Ministry has insisted that whistleblower lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose mysterious death last November has triggered an international row, was behind a $175 million scam.
- 20:22 15/11/2010
A probe into the death of lawyer Sergey Magnitsky in a Moscow pretrial detention center last November, has been prolonged until February 24, 2011, a lawyer said on Monday.
- 20:14 15/11/2010
Bill Browder, the head of British hedge fund Hermitage Capital, said on Monday he would not pay an alleged tax debt of 500 million rubles ($16 mln) to the Russian authorities.
- 15:23 15/11/2010
Russian prosecutors insisted on Monday that Sergei Magnitsky, who defended a British hedge fund in Russian courts in a tax evasion case, was an accountant who masterminded a fraud, and not just a lawyer.
- 14:36 15/11/2010
Police investigators have reaffirmed their accusation that Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Hermitage Capital investment fund, was involved in embezzling 5.4 billion rubles ($175.29 million) from the Russian budget, a police investigations spokeswoman said on Monday.
- 13:19 16/09/2010
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office will prolong a probe into the case of Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, who died in custody last November, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee said on Thursday.
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