The Triumph of the Quiet Tycoon
The New York Times Magazine Desk; 1 August 2004 SECT6 Late Edition - Final
By Peter Maass
Pity, if you can, the richest man in Russia. With a fortune estimated at $15 billion, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is on trial for fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion and faces a 10-year jail term. His oil company, Yukos, has been hit with a tax bill of $3.4 billion, and the government is threatening to seize its most valuable assets. Although many nations, including America, tend to err on the side of courtesy to wealthy defendants, Russia does not: denied bail since his arrest in October, Khodorkovsky has not been allowed to prepare for trial from the comfort of one of his mansions, and when he is brought to court, he is placed in a metal cage.
... era; most Russians don't seem to mind the erosion of civil liberties or the war in Chechnya or the murders of 14 journalists since 2000 (including, most recently, the American Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Russian edition of Forbes) or the fact that evening news programs now tend to lead with a story about whatever Putin did that day. But as political ...
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Making money out of managed democracy
Financial News 1 August 2004 by Ben Seeder
When Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed a special gathering of his foreign ambassadors last month, he told them: "You must improve the image of Russia abroad." Putin was concerned about foreigners' views of the country transforming into an authoritarian police state. He was giving the ambassadors a tough assignment.Crackdowns on democratic institutions, as well as the government's pursuit of oil company Yukos, have led Western investors to question the strength of individuals' rights, and property rights in particular. Local television and radio news is now reminiscent of the pre-glasnost era, when stations functioned as a direct mouthpiece of the Kremlin.
Russia remains one of the most dangerous places for reporters in the world, as illustrated last month by the assassination of American journalist Paul Klebnikov outside his office in central Moscow. According to the Glasnost Defence Foundation, 10 journalists were murdered, 96 assaulted and 24 media offices attacked during 2003. There were also some 378 ...
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OUR TURN ; Press murders imperil democracy in Russia ; The slaying of an American editor in Moscow must not remain another unsolved mystery.
San Antonio Express-News 3 August 2004 Metro - Editorial
Russia is today a dynamic, pluralistic society. Russians participate in a democratic electoral process. They can start businesses and own property, read controversial books and see the latest, Western movies - all things that would have been unimaginable only 15 years ago.
If Russia has made tremendous progress since the bad old days of the Soviet Union, communism and the KGB, it also has its problems. Like many societies confronted with rapid change, Russia is vexed by powerful criminal elements and political corruption, often working in cooperation. ... days of the Politburo, then to the time of the czars.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the persistent pattern of attacks on the Russian free press. Last month, Paul Klebnikov , the American editor in chief of Forbes Russia, was gunned down in Moscow. In his magazine and in his books, Klebnikov examined the perilous relationship of crime, business and politics ...
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Contract Murders Are on the Rise
The Moscow Times 4 August 2004 by Carl Schreck
The apparent contract killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov shattered the illusions of many who shared his belief that Russia had moved beyond the days when scores were settled with a spray of bullets. Yet police estimates indicate that in some ways, little has changed since the Wild West years of Russian capitalism in the early and mid-1990s.
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Russian Journalists in Peril
Voice of America Press Releases and Documents 5 August 2004
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WASHINGTON: INTRO: In Focus Today: Russian Journalists in peril.
The murder of an American journalist, Paul Klebnikov , in Moscow a month ago was the latest reminder that journalists in Russia face constant threats from a shady coalition of criminal, business, and political forces. VOA's Jaroslaw Anders looks at the causes of this menace and its impact on Russian media.
TEXT: Paul Klebnikov was gunned down from a passing car as he was leaving his office in Moscow. The 41 year-old descendent of Russian emigres spent a lot of time in Russia. Most ... ... very clear that there is an entire realm of things that are talked about, but never actually printed on paper. ///END ACT]
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalist says Paul Klebnikov was the 15th journalist killed in Russia during president Putin's tenure. Alexander Lupis, Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator at the Committee, says journalists reporting on government corruption, organized crime ...
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July Sent a Jolt Through Investors
The Moscow Times 5 August 2004
Greg Walters
Confidence in the business climate plunged last month as the government threatened to sell off Yukos' main oil production field, rumors of a liquidity crisis caused a run on Russian banks, and American journalist Paul Klebnikov was shot dead in an apparent contract killing. The MT Business Confidence Index, compiled from a pool of managers and market watchers, took its biggest hit in July since the October arrest of Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, dropping five points to 24. On the MT scale, 10 represents the lowest confidence and 50 the highest. The index has fallen by nine points since the beginning of June.
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Contract killings hit record high in Russia.
Irish Times 5 August 2004
Chris Stephen in Moscow
Russia: Contract killings in Russia have hit record levels, puncturing the hope that the country has left the era of "gangster capitalism" behind, according to a senior crime official here. Between 500 and 700 Russians a year are killed by business rivals, according to crime official Mr Leonid Kondratyuk, a top Interior Ministry official. The news comes a month after American journalist Paul Klebnikov , editor of Forbes Russia, died in a hail of bullets fired by an assassin in Moscow. Mr Kondratyuk told the Moscow Times that even his estimate of 500 to 700 ...
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RUSSIA: RISE IN MURDERS, CONTRACT KILLINGS.
ANSA - English Media Service 6 August 2004 04:04 pm
(ANSA) - MOSCOW, August 6 - The number of murders in Russia has more than doubled over the last 15 years and in 2003 theere were 31,630 or 22 murders in every 100,000 people, Colonel Ashot Airapetian, head of the criminal police department of the Russian Interior Ministry, said.
Airapetian said that in terms of murders Russia was second only to South Africa. More than half of all murders in Russia took place in common everyday life situations and in 80 percent of the cases the murders were committed under the influence of alcohol.
... percent of all murder cases, has also grown. These killings have a great public impact due to the fact that the victims are well-known figures such as the case of Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, killed on July 9 in Moscow.
Airapetian said that some hundred contract killings had been registered in 2003.
Denis Stukov, a spokesman ...
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Mission (almost) impossible.
Financial Times (FT.Com) 6 August 2004
BY JOHN LLOYD
In one of the many discussions that the irreplaceable Moscow School of Political Studies has fostered between foreigners and Russians over the past decade, I recently argued the case to a roomful of former Soviet regional officials, politicians and teachers that what their country needed was public-service journalism.
That journalism could come in the form of newspapers or radio or TV; its object was to deliver news, information and analysis in a comprehensible and objective way, provide space for competing views, and approach the government, the authorities and big corporations with the view that they had high responsibilities and must be held accountable.
... profession: many Russian journalists have died in Chechnya and at the hands of the criminal business power groups whom they have offended. The murder last month of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov , reporter for Forbes and exposer of the oligarchs, was remarkable only because the victim was a westerner.
Tretyakov says the resumption of control is generally a good thing. The people ...
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WHY DO THEY SHOOT JOURNALISTS?
WPS: What the Papers Say 9 August 2004
Author: Larisa Kislinskaya
Reference: Sovershenno Sekretno, No. 8, August 4, 2004, p. 12
WPS Summary: The Prosecutor General's Office is supervising the investigation into the murder of Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine. The Prosecutor General's Office has been "supervising" the investigation into the murder of Vlad Listiev for the past decade./
WPS Subject: An unpublished July 2003 interview with Forbes editor Paul Khlebnikov
As we went to print, it was 20 days since the death of journalist Paul Khlebnikov . The crime remains unsolved. The only people who might be surprised by this are the Americans who have offered their assistance to the Prosecutor General's Office in investigating the murder ... these people remain in power - and if the names of Listiev's killers are ever spoken aloud, the whole nation would be shocked.
I'm citing the example of Listiev because Paul Khlebnikov had started investigating his murder, and some fellow journalists consider this to be among the reasons Khlebnikov was killed. They quote Khlebnikov's long-time acquaintance, Valery Streletsky - formerly the head ...
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Media watchdog appeals to Putin over journalists' deaths
Agence France Presse 9 August 2004 09:44 am
MOSCOW, Aug 9 (AFP) - A US-based media watchdog appealed Monday to President Vladimir Putin to do more to ensure reporters' safety in Russia, saying killings of journalists were "damaging your nation's international reputation."
... and that "independent reporting essential to democracy" was being erased.
Television media have come under Kremlin control during Putin's term in power.
The CPJ letter focused on the murder of Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Russian version of the US business magazine Forbes who was killed in a gangland-style shooting outside his office July 9, just weeks after the magazine opened.
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They write to Putin from New York.
Russian Press Digest - Russica Izvestia 11 August 2004
By Kira Latukhina.
The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists urged Russian authorities to pay more attention to investigating journalists' murders
The New York-based international organization Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday addressed the Russian President Vladimir Putin with a call to take urgent measures to prevent killings and other persecutions of journalists in Russia and take under his personal control the investigations of journalists' murders.
... damaging to the nation's international reputation and depriving Russians of the independent reporting essential to democracy.
The letter mentions such events as the July 9 slaying of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Khlebnikov in Moscow and the murders of two successive editors-in-chief of Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye newspaper in the Samara region's city of Tolyatti.
All-in-all, eleven journalists have been murdered in contract-style killings and ...
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Journalism's key battle is with its own integrity
The Scotsman 14 August 2004
By Joyce McMillan
A BRITISH journalist is kidnapped and subsequently released in Iraq; and across the UK, newsrooms thrill with empathy and outrage, in a reflex there-but-for-the-grace-of-God reaction that must grate on the nerves of the families of other groups whose lives are in danger in Iraq.
But even outside the small world of journalism, there's a growing chill of concern that events like yesterday's kidnap in Basra of the freelance journalist James Brandon - just 23 years old, and working on a story for the Sunday Telegraph - are becoming more common, and reflect a disturbing change in the relationship between journalists and the news they report.
... places face terrifying risks; only a few weeks ago, in the latest of a series of killings of investigative journalists and broadcasters, the editor of Forbes business magazine in Russia, Paul Khlebnikov , was seized and shot, and his body dumped in a lay-by on the outskirts of Moscow, in what many saw as a revenge killing for his negative coverage of the ...
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The Precarious Right To Speak the Truth
Forbes 16 August 2004
William Baldwin
Bullets are not the only way to silence the press. In Russia the enemies of free speech have used all the methods, inside and outside the law, and with powerful effect. In that country the dissenters and muckrakers have been pushed into the fringes of the media, working, for the most part, on the Internet and with very limited resources. Into this jungle came Paul Klebnikov as the founding editor of the Russian-language version of FORBES. He had the idealistic view that Russia was ready for free-market capitalism and for a free market in ideas, too. With its frank discussions of how fortunes are being made and lost the magazine is something of a freak.
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Paul Klebnikov 1963-2004; In Memorium
Forbes 16 August 2004
Steve Forbes
Paul Klebnikov , 41, editor of FORBES RUSSIA, was murdered in Moscow on July 9. He was shot four times as he left work and died shortly thereafter. He left behind a wife and three young children.
Paul was the first editor of FORBES RUSSIA, which was launched in April and is a joint venture with Axel Springer. Paul joined FORBES in 1989 and rose to the position of senior editor at the magazine, specializing in Russian and eastern European politics and economics, before assuming the editorship of FORBES RUSSIA.
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Tributes; Excerpts of news coverage, commentary, testimonials and letters of condolence, along with passages from some of Paul's most important work.
Forbes 16 August 2004
Since the murder of Paul Klebnikov on July 9, FORBES has collected more than 1,000 pages of news coverage, commentary, testimonials and letters of condolence. Below are just a few excerpts, along with portions of Paul's most important work, which often proved to be contentious--and prophetic.
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How Russia Went Down A Dead End; Paul Klebnikov 1963-2004
Forbes 16 August 2004
James W. Michaels
Early in the 20th century, before the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia's was the fastest-growing economy in Europe. Industrial production doubled in just 15 years, productivity was up by half. Russia was a contender in steel, textiles and oil. It had a popularly elected Parliament, the Duma. A large and growing peasant population were becoming landowning farmers. Its middle-class, capitalist sector was asserting itself. "On the eve of [WWI] Russia was quite rapidly entering an era of prosperity." So wrote Leonard Schapiro, an outstanding scholar of the Russian revolution, adding that what Russian development required was simply more time.
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All happy magazines are alike; Moscow's and New York's intellectuals share many ideas, says a new Moscow magazine that resembles The New Yorker
The Globe and Mail 23 August 2004
SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
Moscow RUSSIA: From the cartoon cover to the typeface and design, from the cultural listings and " Talk of the Town " -like section in the front to the reviews in the back, a magazine called Novy Ochevidets, or New Eyewitness, introduced here last week, bears an uncanny resemblance to The New Yorker. ... would steer clear of blatantly political stories or hard-hitting investigations like Seymour Hersh's account of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal published in The New Yorker.
" You know what happened to Paul Klebnikov , " she said, referring to the American editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, who was gunned down in Moscow last month. " You know this is not a country where we're ...
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Fall Off in Contract Killings Illusory as Numbers Rise
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia) 24 August 2004
Carl Schreck
MOSCOW - The apparent contract killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov shattered the illusions of many who shared his belief that Russia had moved beyond the days when scores were settled with a spray of bullets. Yet police estimates indicate that in some ways, little has changed since the Wild West years of Russian capitalism in the early and mid-1990s.
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Listen To the Russians
The Washington Post 24 August 2004
Editorial - Theodore P. Gerber, Sarah E. Mendelson and Grigory Shvedov
This past spring, in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, Richard Pipes of Harvard University drew on public opinion data to argue that Russians don't want democracy. His unstated implication was that efforts to promote democracy in Russia were a waste of time and money. Before the last Group of Eight meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed democracy assistance with a different rationale. Russians already have democracy, he said; foreign "assistance" just serves foreign interests. Serge Schmemann of the New York Times, stricken by the murder of Moscow-based journalist Paul Klebnikov , wrote: "[W]hen power tramples on institutions that are at the heart of a free society, we begin to wonder whether we can [help], or whether we should."
We can, we should, and we must. The real issue is: How?
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Kashulinsky appointed chief editor of Forbes' Russian version
Prime-TASS News (Russia) 30 August 2004 08:31 am
MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Prime-Tass) -- Publishing house Axel Springer Russia, which issues Russian version of Forbes magazine, has appointed Maxim Kashulinsky the magazine's new chief editor, Axel Springer Russia said Monday. Paul Klebnikov , the first editor of Forbes magazine's new Russian edition was murdered on July 9.
... Russian version Leonid Bershidsky described Kashulinsky as "the most experienced business journalist, who knows business from the inside and has good intuition. He conceptually developed Forbes' Russian version together with Paul Klebnikov . I am sure that under his guidance the magazine will remain fair and professional and will go on to develop as well," Bershidsky said.
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NEW EDITOR: "FORBES RUSSIA" WILL BE THE SAME.
RIA Novosty 30 August 2004
MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - The concept of "Forbes Russia" will not be altered with the change of the management, Maxim Kashulinskii, the publication's editor-in-chief, told RIA Novosti.
The former chief editor of the magazine's Russian version, Paul Khlebnikov , an American citizen of Russian origin, was murdered in Moscow on July 9. So far the crime remains unsolved.
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FORBES RUSSIA HAS NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
Interfax Companies & Commodities 30 August 2004 07:38 pm
MOSCOW. Aug 30 (Interfax) - Maxim Kashulinsky has been appointed as editor in chief of Forbes Russia, says a press release from the Axel Springer Russia Publishing House received on Monday.
Kashulinsky is a qualified journalist who knows business from the inside and has a strong intuition, the press release quoted Forbes Russia publisher Leonid Bershidsky. He said that Kashulinsky had worked out the concept of Forbes Russia together with Pavel Khlebnikov , and he was confident that the magazine will remain fair and professional and continue its dynamic development under his guidance.
Axel Springer Russia employed Kashulinsky in September 2003. The first issue of Forbes under Kashulinsky will be released on September 2 and focus on the Investments 2004 project. Pavel Khlebnikov , former editor-in-chief of Forbes Russia, was murdered in Moscow on July 9. The crime has not been solved.
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