Moscow murder, TV rows expose risks for journalists.
Reuters News, 12 July 2004, By Ron Popeski
MOSCOW, July 12 (Reuters) - The murder of a U.S. journalist and an overhaul of top news programmes at the closest thing Russia has to an independent television channel show the post-Soviet price to be paid for issuing unwelcome news. Gunmen mowed down Paul Khlebnikov at the weekend two months after, as editor of Russian Forbes magazine, he published a list of the country's 100 wealthiest businessmen.
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Russian Forbes to continue publication despite editor's murder
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, 12 July 2004
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 12 July: The Russian edition of Forbes magazine, whose senior editor Paul Khlebnikov was killed last Friday [9 July], will continue publication and will not change its principles, the magazine's publisher Leonid Bershidskiy told ITAR-TASS today.
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2nd UPDATE:Special Russia Unit To Probe US Editor Slaying
Dow Jones International News, 12 July 2004
(Updates with newspaper speculation on killing's motive and report that Klebnikov died in stuck hospital elevator.)
MOSCOW (AP)--A high-level special crimes unit will investigate the killing of the U.S. editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, an official said Monday, a sign the government wants to show its determination to solve the slaying. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has ordered his office's department for the investigation of particularly important cases to conduct the probe into the death of Paul Klebnikov , said Viktor Potapov, an official at the prosecutor general's office. Klebnikov, 41, was gunned down late Friday outside the magazine's Moscow offices in a slaying widely believed to be connected ...
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Press Review - Forbes' editor murdered, Duma latest bill.
Prime-TASS News (Russia), 12 July 2004
MOSCOW, July 12 (Prime-Tass) - Russian newspapers focused on a range of topics Monday including the murder of Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of Forbes magazine's new Russian edition and the last meeting of the State Duma spring session. Below are selected headlines from the Monday morning newspapers:
Vedomosti "Forbes editor murdered" ( Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of Forbes magazine's new Russian edition was murdered last Friday minutes after leaving the Forbes Moscow office.) "Duma provided guarantees" (State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, ... ... $700 million loan from the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). The newspaper calls it de facto nationalization of a private bank.) "Force majeure" (The newspaper reports on the murder of Paul Klebnikov )
Gazeta "In whose way stood Paul Klebnikov ?" (The newspaper comments on the possible motives for Klebnikov's murder.) "It's better to get cash" (State Duma approved 105 bills during the spring session, which ended last Saturday, a record figure for the last few years.)
The Moscow Times "Forbes editor Klebnikov shot dead" (In the first high-profile murder of a Western journalist in Russia, Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of the new Russian edition of Forbes magazine who for years has relentlessly investigated the dealings of Russia's rich and powerful, was shot dead after leaving work ...
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Special Russian Unit To Probe US Editor's Slaying
Dow Jones International News, 12 July 2004 02:32 am
MOSCOW (AP)--A high-level special crimes unit will investigate the killing of the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, an official said Monday, a sign the government wants to show its determination to solve the slaying. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has ordered his office's department for the investigation of particularly important cases to conduct the probe into the death of Paul Klebnikov , said Viktor Potapov, an official at the prosecutor general's office.
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INTERNATIONAL HEADLINE NEWS Russia
Central News Agency English News, 12 July 2004
Moscow, July 12 [CNA] The Moscow Times ? Forbes Editor Klebnikov Shot Dead.
In the first high-profile murder of a Western journalist in Russia, Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of the new Russian edition of Forbes magazine who for years has relentlessly investigated the dealings of Russia's rich and powerful, was shot dead after leaving work Friday evening.
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Is "Group Think" to Blame for Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure? Philippine Government Agrees To Pull Troops Out of Iraq
CNN: Anderson Cooper 360, 12 July 2004,
Anderson Cooper, Jane Arraf, Mortimer Zuckerman, Chris Burns,Dana Bash, Kelli Arena, Brian Todd, Adaora Udoji, Kimberly GuilfoyleNewsom, Jeanne Moos
ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: Good evening. I'm Anderson Cooper. In the face of terror, a U.S. ally blinks, giving in to hostage- takers' demands. Will we all now pay the price? ... is expected to accept his offer.
In Moscow, the U.S. embassy is offering Russian authorities assistance from the FBI to try and track down the killers of this man, American Paul Khlebnikov . Khlebnikov was the editor of "Forbes" magazine's Russian edition. He was shot by someone from a passing car as he left his office on Friday night.
In London, Bill Clinton ...
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IPI CONDEMNS MURDER OF FORBES RUSSIA EDITOR
IPR Strategic Information Database, 12 July 2004
Paul Khlebnikov , editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot and killed outside his office in Moscow on 9 July. Khlebnikov, 41, an American of Russian descent, was shot from a passing car about 100 meters from Forbes' editorial offices in northern Moscow after he left work in the evening. He was hit four times and died in hospital. Police suspect that his murder was a contract killing, linked to his work as a journalist. Formerly a senior editor with Forbes magazine in the United States, Khlebnikov had reported extensively about Russian political developments, corruption and organised crime. The first issue of the Russian edition of Forbes was published in April 2004. In May the magazine published a list of Russia's 100 richest people, some of whom later protested that their fortunes were greatly exaggerated. Khlebnikov's first book "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia", was published in 2000.
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PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE TO TAKE UP MURDER OF RUSSIAN FORBES CHIEF.
RIA Novosty, 12 July 2004
MOSCOW, July 12 (RIA Novosti) - The investigation of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian Forbes edition, has been handed over to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office has told RIA Novosti. Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has given instructions to pass over the criminal case to the department investigating particularly important cases in the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, the spokesman said. ... deadly gunshot wounds in the evening of July 9 when he was leaving his office at 16 Dokukina Street. He died later in hospital at 10.10 p.m. Moscow time. Pail ( Pavel) Khlebnikov was a US citizen from New York. He was born in 1963 in New York, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics where he ...
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KHODORKOVSKY PRESENTS CONDOLENCES TO FORBES MAGAZINE.
Interfax Energy News Service, 12 July 2004 12:02 pm
MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky asked his lawyers to convey condolences to the Forbes Magazine in connection with the death of Forbes Russian edition editor-in-chief Paul Khlebnikov . "My deepest and heartfelt condolences on your great loss," says the message of Khodorkovsky released by his press center. "Definitely, Paul Khlebnikov did a lot for the promotion of openness and transparency traditions on the Russian market. He was open to constructive argument and we did argue. Agreeing with him or not, ...
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Murder at Forbes.
Russian Press Digest - Russica Izvestia, 12 July 2004, By Sergey Topol, Vlad Trifonov, Alexander Zheglov.
Chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov shot dead in Moscow Late Friday evening the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, an American of Russian origin Paul Khlebnikov , was killed in Moscow. He was lethally wounded by unidentified attackers near the magazine's editorial office in northeast Moscow. Forbes' recent publications are considered by investigators as a possible motive of the attack. ... stayed outside with his bag. The elevator got stuck in the way. I saw myself how they were searching for a technician." One of the doctors told Mr. Fishman that Paul Khlebnikov died in the elevator - he didn't reach the surgery room. Another surgeon said that "we couldn't save him anyway, his wound were lethal." Moscow prosecutor office instigated a criminal ...
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Moscow elite 'linked to editor's murder'
The Guardian, 12 July 2004
Agencies in Moscow- An American journalist and author shot dead in Moscow at the weekend was given a private funeral yesterday amid mounting speculation that one of Russia's business elite angered by his exposes could be behind the killing. Paul Klebnikov was shot dead late on Friday in what was the first murder of a westerner in Moscow for eight years.
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Friends Hold Service For Slain U.S. Editor Of Forbes Russia
Associated Press, The Asian Wall Street Journal, 12 July 2004
MOSCOW -- Friends and colleagues of the slain American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition held a small, private funeral service yesterday for Paul Klebnikov in the Russian capital, Russia's Ekho Moskvy reported. About 40 people attended the service at St. Yekaterina's Church, the radio station said. Mr. Klebnikov will be buried in the U.S. Mr. Klebnikov's family is planning a separate memorial service for Wednesday at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, the U.S. Embassy said.
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Danger lies in Putin's power
Australian Financial Review, 12 July 2004
As throughout much of its unfortunate history, Russia is paying a price for this strong leadership.
Four and a half years after Boris Yeltsin staggered off into a long-overdue retirement, handing over the mess he created to hand-picked successor Vladimir Putin, it's becoming possible to get a clear impression of Mr Putin's Russia. What is emerging is an increasingly sinister-looking modern adaptation of the iron-fist model of government that until the Yeltsin free-for-all it has been Russia's misfortune to suffer. ... television network, now owned by the state-controlled natural-gas monopoly, Gazprom. This was followed by the shocking news at the weekend of the gangland-style murder of Forbes Magazine's Russian chief editor, Paul Klebnikov . There is absolutely no suggestion of Kremlin involvement, but Mr Klebnikov had made bitter enemies among the ranks of Russia's new rich by blowing the lid on the obscene wealth ...
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Discussing the Future of Russia; Discussing MoveOn.org
PBS: The Charlie Rose Show, 12 July 2004, Charlie Rose
CHARLIE ROSE, HOST: Welcome to the broadcast. We begin talking about the future of Russia, about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oligarch who is in prison awaiting trial on tax evasion, also about the ambitions of President Putin.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ... that the wealth of the country, which has been flowing out or someplace else, will come into the infrastructure of the country to be developed. Look what happened to poor Paul Klebnikov , who was assassinated. The medical aid was so late.
CHARLIE ROSE: The Moscow editor of "Forbes" magazine.
STEPHEN COHEN: "Forbes" magazine. That they couldn`t have saved him. And maybe they ... these oligarchs are not people who like privacy -- they seek out privacy. Several have been forced into exile.
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US joins search for editor's killer
The Times, 12 July 2004, Jeremy Page in Moscow
COLLEAGUES and friends paid their last respects yesterday to Paul Khlebnikov , the murdered editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, as police searched his flat and office to find out if he was killed for exposing the wealth of Russia's business elite. About 100 people attended a funeral service at St Catherine's Church in Moscow.
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Slain journalist exposed business, mafia link
The Globe and Mail, 12 July 2004, MARK MacKINNON
Moscow RUSSIA It was the kind of contract killing Paul Klebnikov had written about many times while covering Moscow's often nasty convergence of politics, commerce and crime. But this time, the Forbes Russia editor-in-chief was the victim.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
The Globe and Mail, 12 July 2004
" In Russia, it is lethally dangerous, a death sentence, " Igor Yakovenko, general-secretary of Russia's Union of Journalists; on the death of Paul Klebnikov of Forbes, who made enemies digging into the affairs of powerful people. Page A10.
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Kremlin backs hunt for killer of editor
The Daily Telegraph, 12 July 2004, By Julius StraussMoscow Correspondent
RUSSIA's prosecutor-general has taken personal charge of the investigation into the murder in Moscow of an American magazine editor with numerous enemies among the country's richest and most influential figures. Friends and family of Paul Klebnikov , who moved to Russia six months ago to launch the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, gathered in a church in Moscow yesterday in tribute to their colleague. Klebnikov, 41, married with three children and of Russian descent, was shot dead outside his office on Friday. A black Lada car believed to have been used by his killer has been recovered by police. The decision of the prosecutor-general, Vladimir Ustinov, to take control of the inquiry is said to reflect the view of Russian authorities that the attack was linked to the journalist's work. The murder is the highest profile killing of a journalist in Russia since that of Dmitry Kholodov in 1994, who was compiling a case against corruption in the military.
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American Editor Of Forbes Russia Is Shot and Killed
The Wall Street Journal, 12 July 2004, By Gregory L. White and Guy Chazan
MOSCOW -- Russian investigators searched for a motive in the Friday murder of Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of Forbes magazine's new Russian edition and a chronicler of Russia's business world for more than a decade. Mr. Klebnikov, an investigative journalist who had written extensively about the often murkily intertwined worlds of business, politics and crime in Russia, was shot four times as he walked from his office in Moscow to the subway Friday evening. He died in the hospital on the way to surgery. Officials said he was shot from the window of a car, which then sped away.
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OSCE "Appalled" by Killing of Magazine Editor in Moscow - Media Representative urges thorough investigation of Khlebnikov killing
State Department Press Releases And Documents, 12 July 2004
News from the Washington File
Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said he was appalled at the killing of magazine editor Paul Khlebnikov in Moscow July 9 and called on Russian authorities "to carry out a rapid and thorough investigation."... FORBES MAGAZINE EDITOR
VIENNA, 12 July 2004 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said on Monday he was appalled at the murder of magazine editor Paul Khlebnikov in Moscow. "I am horrified at this brutal killing and call on the Russian authorities to carry out a rapid and thorough investigation," Mr Haraszti said. Khlebnikov, a 41-year-old U.S. ...
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Media Freedom Groups React to Moscow Murder of Forbes Editor - American journalist Paul Khlebnikov investigated corruption, crime
State Department Press Releases And Documents, 12 July 2004
News from the Washington File
International press freedom organizations expressed shock and condemnation in the wake of Paul Khlebnikov 's murder July 9 in Moscow. ... by the International Press Institute, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders:
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Moscow police hunt editor's murderer: American shot to death
National Post, with files from news services, 12 July 2004, Francine Dube
Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of Forbes Russia shot dead outside his Moscow office on Friday night, was remembered by friends and colleagues yesterday for his bravery in taking on some of the country's most powerful businessmen and politicians. "I've known him for 20 years. He never feared a thing," said Boris Jordan, a former journalist who now heads the Sputnik investment bank in Moscow.
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Editor's death breaks Russia murder taboo.
Financial Times, USA Ed2, English, 12 July 2004, By ANDREW JACK
Family and friends yester-day held a private memorial service for Paul Klebnikov , the American-born journalist of Russian origin who was murdered in Moscow in an apparent contract killing on Friday night. Mr Klebnikov, 41, editor of the recently launched Russian-language version of Forbes, the US business magazine, was hit by marksmen with four bullets as he left the publication's offices.
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Itar-Tass Russia, CIS news summary for Saturday, Sunday=1.
ITAR-TASS World Service, English, 12 July 2004
MOSCOW -- Police have found the VAZ car in which those who killed Pavel Khlebnikov escaped, the press secretary of the Moscow prosecutor's office, Svetlana Petrenko, told Itar-Tass.
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US embassy in touch with Rus investigators of journalist ' s murder.
ITAR-TASS World Service, English, 12 July 2004, By Yelena Volkova
MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The US embassy in Russia is in close contact with the Russian law enforcement bodies investigating Pavel Khlebnikov ' s assassination, Tass learned from the press service of the US embassy in Moscow. ... affairs offered the investigators any possible assistance so that the culprits be punished. It was said at the embassy the assassination of the American journalist caused a shock. American citizen Pavel Khlebnikov was an offspring of a Russian family of the first wave of emigration. He worked in Russia over the past ten years. He was lately chief editor of the Russian ...
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MOSCOW SERVICE FOR SLAIN JOURNALIST
SBS 6.30pm TV World News Transcripts, English, 12 July 2004
Friends and colleagues of a business journalist murdered in Russia have gathered at the American Orthodox Church in Moscow for a private memorial service. Paul Khlebnikov , editor of the Russian edition of 'Forbes' magazine, was gunned down outside his office on Friday night. Fellow journalists said they had no doubt he was killed because of his investigations into Russia's business elite. The Paris-based 'Reporters Without Barriers' said Klebnikov's death was evidence that freedom of the press in Russia was in great danger.
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Magazines take a world view
International Herald Tribune, English, 12 July 2004, Kevin J. O'Brien
BERLIN: When Gruner + Jahr, a Hamburg-based publisher, last year won the opportunity to produce Glamour magazine in Poland, the company did not waste any time in saying yes. ... of both Forbes Russia and the Russian version of Newsweek is supplied locally in Moscow by Axel Springer's Russian staff of 100 employees. [Forbes Russia's editorial operations were headed by Paul Klebnikov , 41, an American journalist, who was shot to death Friday night outside the magazine offices. Forbes Russia published its first issue in April under his editorship.] While the titles are ...
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Lawless Russia
The Wall Street Journal, 12 July 2004
The murder of Forbes Russia Editor-in-Chief Paul Klebnikov on a Moscow street Friday night was the most dramatic display yet of the lawlessness that has Russia in its grip. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov says he has taken "personal control" of the case, a suggestion that the Russian state is finally conscious of its bad image in the world. But under its present leadership, the state is itself an important part of the problem. The 41-year-old Mr. Klebnikov was a brilliant journalist and student of Russian history. He had written for our pages several times, most recently last November when he argued that the arrest of Russia's richest businessman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was a blow against the "kleptocracy" that had enriched itself with state assets under Boris Yeltsin's privatization program. ... himself was a KGB functionary.Yet Mr. Putin is welcomed to international parleys, such as G-8 meetings, as if he were the leader of a normal country. The murder of Paul Klebnikov demonstrates that Russia is not a normal country. Perhaps it's time for the leaders of free democracies to ask Mr. Putin whether the rule of law exists in Russia.
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Colleagues mourn slain Forbes editor: Russian police seek clues in apparent contract killing
The Times, London, 12 July 2004, Jeremy Page
MOSCOW - Colleagues and friends paid their last respects yesterday to Paul Khlebnikov , the murdered editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, as police searched his apartment and office to find out if he was killed for exposing the wealth of Russia's business elite.
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Lawless Russia
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 12 July 2004
The murder of Forbes Russia Editor-in-Chief Paul Klebnikov on a Moscow street Friday night was the most dramatic display yet of the lawlessness that has Russia in its grip. Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov says he has taken "personal control" of the case, a suggestion that the Russian state is finally conscious of its bad image in the eyes of the world. But under its present leadership, the state may itself be an important part of the problem. The 41-year-old Mr. Klebnikov was a brilliant journalist and student of Russian history. He had written for our pages several times, most recently last November when he argued that the arrest of Russia's richest businessman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was a blow against the "kleptocracy" that had enriched itself with state assets under Boris Yeltsin's privatization program. ... was a KGB functionary. Yet the Russian president is welcomed to international parleys, such as G-8 meetings, as if he were the leader of a normal country. The murder of Paul Klebnikov demonstrates that Russia is not a normal country. Perhaps it's time for the leaders of free democracies to ask Mr. Putin whether he wants to be part of a solution, ...
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE RUSSIAN VERSION OF FORBES KILLED
WPS: The Russian Business Monitor, 12 July 2004
Editor-in-Chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov was killed in Moscow. The journalist was shot in the head late in the afternoon on July 9 in the Northeastern Administrative District. So far, investigators do not have official versions of the reason for the murder. Nonetheless, law enforcement agencies of Moscow presume that the murder of Khlebnikov has been ordered. Echo of Moscow radio reports that the crime may be connected with professional activities of the journalist.
Paul Khlebnikov was a son of Russian emigrants. His parents immigrated to the US during the Civil War in Russia in 1918. Khlebnikov graduated from the University of California in Berkley and the London School of economics. In 1991, Khlebnikov received a doctor's degree. Khlebnikov joined Forbes in 1989. He was expert for Russian and East European policy and economy and in April 2004 he became the first Editor-in-Chief of the Russian version of Forbes. ... killed because of inaccurate treatment of facts, Berezovsky says, "Unfortunately, he treated the facts very arbitrarily and invented many of them. Someone probably did not like this seriously."
In 2003, Paul Khlebnikov also published the book "Conversation with the barbarian" based on the meetings and interviews of Chechen field commander Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev. In May 2004, Forbes published its list of the richest ...
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Murder of Forbes Russia Editor Raises Queries on Business Sector
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 12 July 2004, By Gregory L. White and Guy Chazan
MOSCOW -- The brazen murder Friday of the American editor of Forbes magazine's new Russian edition has raised questions about how much Russian business has distanced itself from the wild and bloody days of the 1990s. Paul Klebnikov , an investigative journalist who had written extensively about the often murkily intertwined worlds of business, politics and crime in Russia, was shot four times as he walked from his office in northeastern Moscow to the subway Friday evening. He died in the hospital on the way to surgery. Officials said he was shot from the window of a car, which then sped away.
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Investigators Find Gunmen's Vehicle
The Moscow Times, 12 July 2004, Carl Schreck
Investigators said they have recovered the car from which Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov was shot and killed Friday night, but there was no word that any suspects had been detained as of Sunday evening. "Investigative activities are proceeding at full speed," Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for the City Prosecutor's Office, told Interfax on Saturday. "The car from which Klebnikov was shot has been found. The car is now being examined."
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Forbes Editor Klebnikov Shot Dead
The Moscow Times, 12 July 2004, Valeria Korchagina
In the first high-profile murder of a Western journalist in Russia, Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of the new Russian edition of Forbes magazine who for years has relentlessly investigated the dealings of Russia's rich and powerful, was shot dead after leaving work Friday evening. Klebnikov, 41, was shot four times from a passing car about 100 meters from Forbes' editorial offices on Ulitsa Dokukina in northern Moscow at about 10 p.m.
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ENEMY OF THE OLIGARCHS
WPS: What the Papers Say, 12 July 2004, Author: Konstantin Frumkin
Reference: Russkii Kurier, July 12, 2004, p. EV
|WPS Summary: Everyone is sure that the murder of Paul Khlebnikov was in some way related to his professional activities. All the same, no one, not even his colleagues, is able to say for certain exactly which area of his work might have prompted a contract killing./
WPS Subject: Was Paul Khlebnikov killed for displeasing Russia's richest people? Everyone is sure that the murder of Paul Khlebnikov was in some way related to his professional activities. All the same, no one, not even his colleagues, is able to say for certain exactly which area of his work ...
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WHOM DID PAUL KHLEBNIKOV CROSS?
WPS: What the Papers Say, 12 July 2004
The initial theories about the crime
Author: Natalia Rostova, Dmitri Ponomarev, Vitaly Streltsov
Reference: Gazeta, July 12, 2004, pp. 1-3
/WPS Summary: Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was murdered in Moscow on Friday evening. Khlebnikov's colleagues say they can't think of a single motive that might be related ... ... his professional activities. His contract was due to expire in January, and he planned to return to the United States./
WPS Subject: The editor of Forbes Russia has been murdered
Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was murdered in Moscow on Friday evening. Of the nine bullets fired by the assailants, four hit the journalist. This was ... ... an energetic person and a fountain of ideas. Sure, 90% of the ideas were useless, but the 10% that were useful couldn't have been thought up by anyone else."
* Paul Khlebnikov and Boris Berezovsky
The name of Paul Khlebnikov became widely known in Russia due to Boris Berezovsky. He was a senior editor with the American edition of Forbes magazine when it published the article titled "Godfather of the ... ... United States, it was subsequently translated into various other languages, including Russian (as "Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia"). But Berezovsky did not sue Khlebnikov over the book.
* Paul Khlebnikov and Severstal
Paul Khlebnikov continued his investigations of Russian entrepreneurs, in Russia. One of the feature articles in the first issue of the Russian-language version of Forbes, published in April this year, was the ...
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THE PAUL PROBLEM
WPS: What the Papers Say, 12 July 2004, Semyon Novoprudsky
Reference: Vremya Novostei, July 12, 2004, p. 4
WPS Summary: The murder of American journalist Paul Khlebnikov : the truth must be ascertained as soon as possible and any political consequences of this criminal case must be avoided. The shooting could be used as a pretext for further attacks on big business in Russia./
WPS Subject: Delving into the motives behind Paul Khlebnikov 's murder
The murder of American journalist Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of Forbes Russia, in Moscow has been a political provocation, regardless of who committed this crime or their motives. The leading theory is that the murder was linked to Khlebnikov's professional activities. Paul Khlebnikov had no enemies in the Russian state structures. His most controversial articles about Russia related to Boris Berezovsky, generated a sequence of legal proceedings, but had been composed during a ... ... respectable Western magazine could be used in the political struggle inside Russia, in particular as a bridgehead for a new attack on representatives of big business in Russia.
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PRESS FREEDOM - RUSSIA - Editor of Russian edition of Forbes Magazine killed in Moscow
Canada NewsWire, 12 July 2004
MONTREAL, July 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders said today it was "shocked" at the murder of American journalist Paul Khlebnikov in a Moscow street on 9 July and called for government action to protect journalists in a country where it said they were "in great danger." Khlebnikov, 41, editor of the new Russian edition of the US business magazine Forbes, was hit four times by gunmen who attacked him as he left his office. He died on his way to hospital.
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US Journalist Shot Dead in Moscow
WMRC Daily Analysis, 12 July 2004, Valerie Mason
The US-born editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov , was shot dead in the capital, Moscow, on 9 July. He was shot from a passing car shortly after leaving work late in the evening, and died in hospital. It is assumed by colleagues that the killing was linked to his journalistic work, but the exact motive is not yet clear. According to the Moscow Times, it could have been related to Forbes' list of Russia's 100 richest people, to his investigations into exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, on whom he was said to be writing a second book, or to investigations into the connections between Russian oil company Surgutneftegaz and oil trader Kinex. These links have allegedly been to the benefit of Gennady Timchenko, who has been described as the manager of President Vladimir Putin's personal wealth.
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U.S. EMBASSY SHOCKED BY MURDER OF PAUL KLEBNIKOV.
Interfax News Service, 12 July 2004
MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - The U.S. Embassy in Russia has expressed shock over the murder of Paul Klebnikov , the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, and is ready to do everything it can to help the Russian authorities bring those responsible for the crime to justice. "We are shocked and saddened by the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov on Friday. Ambassador Vershbow and the entire embassy community extend their deepest condolences to Mr. Klebnikov's family," U.S. embassy Press Attache Thomas M. Leary said in a statement distributed on Monday. ... Klebnikov's murder." "As always, our Legal Attache has offered any and all assistance that might help bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice," the message says. It says that " Paul Klebnikov 's background and interests ideally suited him to the task of explaining Russia to Americans and vice-versa." Klebnikov "was a person who tried to take the best American values - fair ...
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CONDOLENCES EXPRESSED ON FORBES EDITOR MURDER (PART 2).
Interfax News Service, 12 July 2004
MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - Chief of the Russian Federal Press and Mass Communications Agency Mikhail Seslavinsky has sent condolences to the editorial staff of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine over the assassination of its editor-in-chief, Paul Klebnikov , the agency's press service told Interfax on Monday. "I am expressing my deep condolences to Klebnikov's family, friends, and colleagues. A talented journalist and media manager has died," Seslavinsky said.
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MOSCOW PRESS REVIEW FOR JULY 12, 2004 (UPDATE).
Interfax Daily Financial Report, 12 July 200
MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - The following is a digest of Moscow newspapers published on July 12. Interfax does not accept liability for information in these stories. POLITICS & ECONOMICS The State Duma on Saturday rushed through a bill that extends guarantees for retail deposits of up to 100,000 rubles to uninsured banks that collapsed after December 27, 2003, restoring some calm to the market (Vedomosti, p. A1; Kommersant, p. 5; Moscow Times, p. 1; Vremya Novostei, Izvestia, p. 1). ... p. 3, Izvestia, p.4).
Interview: Dmitry Kozak, the Russian Cabinet's chief of staff (Vedomosti, p. A5).
Interview: Sergei Storchak, deputy chief executive of Vnesheconombank (Vremya Novostei, p. 7). HEADLINE NEWS
Pavel Khlebnikov , the American editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine who has for years investigated Russian business, was shot dead Friday (Vedomosti, p. A1; Kommersant, p.; Moscow Times, p. 1; ...
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INSTEAD OF POLITICS
WPS: What the Papers Say, 12 July 2004, Ella Paneyakh
Reference: Vedomosti, July 12, 2004, p. A4
... to be the first time in the history of Russian journalism, no one has any doubt that a particular journalist's death was linked to his professional activities. The murder of Paul Khlebnikov has shocked everyone. No one doubts that he was murdered "for something."/
WPS Subject: Journalism, death, and the rules of the game
For what seems to be the first time in the history of Russian journalism, no one has any doubt that a particular journalist's death was linked to his professional activities. The murder of Paul Khlebnikov has shocked everyone. No one doubts that he was murdered "for something." The investigators say that this was a contract killing. In comparison, an explosion in Vladivostok during an election ...
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Russian prosecutor general's office to investigate American editor's slaying
Associated Press Newswires, 12 July 2004, By JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) - A high-level special crimes unit will investigate the killing of the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, an official said Monday, a sign the government wants to show its determination to solve the slaying. Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has ordered his office's department for the investigation of particularly important cases to conduct the probe into the death of Paul Klebnikov , said Viktor Potapov, an official at the prosecutor general's office.
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Reporters on the Job
Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2004
* Killed in Russia: Last Friday's murder of Paul Khlebnikov , the American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition, has shocked and shaken the community of foreign journalists (this page). "It's not unusual for Russian journalists to be killed. There have been five this year. They often run afoul of local businesses or authorities. But foreign reporters, until now, have felt exempt from those attacks," says correspondent Fred Weir.
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Shades of '90s instability return to Russia ; The Yukos trial resumes Monday in Moscow amid woes fueled by a journalist's assassination and a run on banks.
Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2004, Fred Weir Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MOSCOW - Russia's image of order and stability, cited as President Vladimir Putin's key accomplishment, faltered last week as bailiffs began dismembering the once-profitable oil giant Yukos and panicked depositors staged a run on several of the country's top banks. Also, Paul Khlebnikov , a leading Western journalist who covered Russia's secretive business community, was gunned down Friday outside his Moscow office in an apparent contract killing. Though outwardly unconnected, these developments are fueling ...
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Editor killed in drive-by shooting investigated shadowy Russian elite
The Independent, 12 July 2004, Andrew Osborn in Moscow
A MODEST memorial service was held in Moscow yesterday for Pavel Klebnikov , the slain editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, as it emerged the investigative journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting. Some forty friends and colleagues gathered at the Church of Saint Ekaterina to pay their last respects to Mr Klebnikov, 41, the US-born editor who was shot dead in an apparent contract killing last Friday shortly after he had left his office.
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Moscow police hunt killers of American investigative journalist.
Irish Times, 12 July 2004
RUSSIA: Moscow police were hunting the killers of the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition yesterday after he was shot dead outside his office in an apparent contract killing, writes   Daniel McLaughlin in Moscow Friends and colleagues of Mr Paul Khlebnikov , who was shot 10 times on Friday night by unknown assailants, also held a small memorial service for him yesterday, ahead of burial in the United States.
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