Serge Schmemann New York Times, July 13
The Guardian, 14 July 2004
"Twenty journalists have now been assassinated in Russia for their work; 14 since Vladimir Putin became president. Not one of the murders has been solved . . . [Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov ] was not afraid. He was convinced that a western journalist saying the truth in Russia would be respected. I avidly hope that those who ordered his killing are caught. I hope the trial will be public. "But, in the end, the perpetrators are not the issue . . . It is the evidence that murder is still perceived as a normal and safe way of settling scores and amassing wealth, and that the Kremlin is not really interested in doing anything about it."
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Wounded Forbes Editor Was Stuck in Hospital's Elevator
The Moscow Times, 14 July 2004, Valeria Korchagina
Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov did not make it to the operating room after being shot Friday because he got stuck in the hospital's elevator and was dead before it could be opened, Klebnikov's colleagues and hospital staff said. Klebnikov, 41, was conscious when colleagues reached him after he was shot four times by unknown assailants after leaving work Friday night.
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KHLEBNIKOV'S MURDER: HEADACHE FOR AUTHORITIES,
RIA Novosty, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political analyst Pyotr Romanov) - No one doubts that the recent murder of Paul Khlebnikov , US citizen and former editor-in-chief of Forbes Russia, was a contract killing. Yet no one has so far ventured any plausible version as to the commissioner. As an analyst has pointed out, what Khlebnikov was doing, looking into the pockets of hundreds of oligarchs, was like walking in a minefield. And he walked this field for several years and not only in Russia.
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TOO LATE - HE'S ALREADY DEAD
WPS: What the Papers Say, 14 July 2004, Alexander Andriukhin
Eyewitness accounts of the last minutes of Paul Khlebnikov 's life
Reference: Izvestia, July 14, 2004, p. 1 EV
/WPS Summary: Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, was gunned down on Friday evening outside his office. He stopped breathing in the ambulance, but he was still alive on ... He died in an overcrowded elevator, stuck in the basement./
WPS Subject: Murdered Forbes editor breathed his last while trapped in an elevator
On Monday, the murder case of journalist Paul Khlebnikov was handed over to the major crimes investigation directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office. Meanwhile, the following question remains open: did the wounded journalist receive timely and qualified medical assistance? ...
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REPORTER SLAIN IN RUSSIA Putin needs to ensure protections for the press
Newsday, 14 July 2004, BY MICHAEL R. CAPUTO
American journalist Paul Klebnikov was shot to death outside my office building in Moscow on Friday. At least it used to be my office. I worked with Klebnikov, Forbes magazine's maverick correspondent, several times in the past 10 years, sometimes in Moscow, sometimes in New York. Our paths crossed often through one of Russia's wildest decades. Eight years after we first met as he covered Boris Yeltsin's 1996 presidential election, his murder brings clarity: Nothing has changed. Brutal criminals still run amok in Russia, operating with impunity. ... demand results in this murder investigation and require the assassins and their bosses be detected, arrested, tried and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Or will it let Paul Klebnikov , like Paul Tatum, be just another footnote in Russia's disingenuous flirtation with world-class rule of law? We're waiting.
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Press Review - Abramov targeted, Siemens wants Silovye Mashiny.
Prime-TASS News (Russia), 14 July 2004
MOSCOW, July 14 (Prime-Tass) - Russian newspapers focused on a range of topics Wednesday including an attack on acting Chechen President Sergei Abramov's cavalcade Tuesday and Siemens' interest in Silovye Mashiny. Below are selected headlines from the Wednesday morning newspapers:
Vedomosti
"The 10 wounds of Paul Khlebnikov " (The paper has learnt that the Forbes editor died not in the lift of the 20th city hospital, but in the ambulance, and he was shot not four times, but ...
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Commentary; Moscow Murder's Other Victim
Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2004, Andrew Meier
He did not go to Iraq or Afghanistan or down a dark alley in Pakistan. Unlike Danny Pearl or Michael Kelly, American journalist Paul Klebnikov did not think he was going to war. But late Friday evening, as he left his Moscow office, Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes magazine's newly launched Russian edition, became a victim in an undeclared war -- the assault on free speech in Russia. Under Vladimir V. Putin, the wise and the knowing in Moscow like to say, life has grown "quieter." Politics and the economy have become so stable, the Russian press corps now speaks with dread of a return to Brezhnevian stagnation. Yet the veneer of stability has come at a cost. So far, few beyond Moscow have taken notice. But last week the fateful turn -- for the free press in Russia and for the remaining hopes for reform and the rule of law under Putin -- was hard to miss.
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Russian journalist reported missing in Saint Petersburg
Agence France Presse, 14 July 2004
SAINT PETERSBURG, July 14 (AFP) - A Russian journalist who had investigated the 1998 death of a liberal lawmaker in Saint Petersburg has been reported missing, police said Wednesday. ... had not seen Maximov since the beginning of July, filed a missing person's report. Following last Friday's assassination of the editor in chief of Forbes magazine in Russia, US citizen Paul Klebnikov , the international media watchdog group of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) repeated that Russia was a "particularly dangerous" country for journalists. Five reporters were killed in Russia in 2003, and more ...
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US Envoy: Editor's Slaying Could Hit US-Russian Business
Dow Jones Emerging Markets Report, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW (AP)--The U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Vershbow, Wednesday said the killing of a U.S. journalist gunned down on a Moscow street could have an impact on U.S.-Russian business contacts. Paul Klebnikov , 41, the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was shot Friday night as he walked from his office to a subway station. ... in Russia reflected optimism about the country, said: "In that spirit we are optimistic that his murderer will be found." Speculation on the motive behind the killing has focused on Paul Klebnikov 's writing about the often-murky world of Russian business, and especially on the magazine's publication this spring of a list of the country's 100 richest people, which could have drawn unwanted attention to people sensitive about their wealth.
"People who have things to hide don't like the light," Michael Klebnikov said. But both brothers said they had no indication that Paul Klebnikov was working on new investigations that someone might have resented.
"Paul was very tightlipped with his family about what he was working on," Peter Klebnikov said. "He gave us no ...
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Russia's richest among Forbes murder suspects.
Reuters News, 14 July 2004, By Tom Miles
MOSCOW, July 14 (Reuters) - Russia's 100 richest citizens could be among those questioned for the murder of the U.S. editor of Russian Forbes magazine who was gunned down after publishing a Russian rich list, his brother said on Wednesday. Paul Khlebnikov , a 41-year-old investigative journalist, was shot in Moscow on Friday, two months after the launch of Russian Forbes and publication of the list, which showed Moscow had more billionaires than any other city in the world.
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Brothers of U.S. journalist killed in Russia call for intense investigation
Associated Press Newswires, 14 July 2004, By JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) - The brothers of an American journalist gunned down on a Moscow street called on Russian authorities Wednesday to fully investigate the killing and show that the country is overcoming its reputation for violence. Michael and Peter Klebnikov made the statement hours before a memorial service for their brother Paul, the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition. ... reporters. He said that the FBI legal attache in Moscow had not received any request for help from Russian authorities.
Speculation on the motive behind the killing has focused on Paul Klebnikov 's stories about the often-murky world of Russian business, and especially on the magazine's publication this spring of a list of the country's 100 richest people, which could have drawn unwanted attention to people sensitive about their wealth. "People who have things to hide don't like the light," Michael Klebnikov said. But both brothers said they had no indication that Paul Klebnikov was working on new investigations that someone might have resented.
"Paul was very tightlipped with his family about what he was working on," Peter Klebnikov said. Michael Klebnikov said his ...
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The Russia where Paul Klebnikov was killed MEANWHILE
International Herald Tribune, 14 July 2004, Serge Schmemann
PARIS: On Friday night, I got a call from Moscow; my friend, Paul Klebnikov , the editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, had been shot dead as he left work. Paul, 41, was a cheery, earnest person, and that rare phenomenon, an optimist. His wife, Musa, and their three small children were in Italy and had just spoken to him on the phone before he was shot. She was heartbreakingly brave the next day. Please gather articles about Paul, she asked, so the children will know how wonderful their father was.
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Murdered American journalist memorialized in service at Moscow's main cathedral
Associated Press Newswires, 14 July 2004, By JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) - Hundreds of mourners came Wednesday to a reconstructed cathedral that symbolizes Russia's post-Soviet strivings to remember murdered American journalist Paul Klebnikov , whom his brothers said felt hope that Russia was moving beyond its violent reputation. Klebnikov, the 41-year-old editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was shot to death Friday on a Moscow street near his office. He is to be buried in the United States, but the memorial service underlined his deep connections in Russia.
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Murdered Forbes editor's brother calls Russia "sick country"
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, 14 July 2004
Text of report by Russian Ren TV on 14 July [Presenter] Moscow today paid its last respects to the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, Paul Khlebnikov , who was shot dead last Friday [9 July]. The journalist will be buried in his homeland - the USA. Artem Vysotskiy reports. ... conflicts and even win tennis tournaments, but it is still considered completely normal to kill a person who bothers you. This country is sick.
[Correspondent] Tomorrow a plane will take Paul Khlebnikov 's body from Moscow to New York where his funeral will be held. As for theories regarding the murder, the law-enforcement organs have plenty. The detective team from the Prosecutor-General's Office ...
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FUNERAL SERVICE OF PAUL KHLEBNIKOV HELD IN CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR.
RIA Novosty, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - The funeral service of Paul Khlebnikov was held in the Transfiguration Church of the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Wednesday. Russian officials, diplomats, journalists and common people who were affected by his murder attended the service and brought flowers to his coffin. According to the priest, who held the burial service, US citizen Paul ( Pavel) Khlebnikov was an Orthodox Christian and Russian in his spirit.
US ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow offered sincere condolences to his family and friends. " Paul Khlebnikov loved this country, believed in Russia and tried to bring American values here," the diplomat noted. Forbes Russia editor Paul Khlebnikov was shot dead when he left his office on July 9 evening. Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov took the investigation of Khlebnikov's murder under special control.
The editor will be buried in the US. According to Paul Khlebnikov 's brother Michael, at first the family wanted to bury Paul in Russia because he loved this country very much. Later they changed this decision.
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Murdered US Journalist Memorialized In Moscow Service
Dow Jones International News, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW (AP)--Hundreds of mourners Wednesday filled a cathedral that symbolizes Russia's post-Soviet rebirth to remember U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov . His brothers urged authorities to solve his murder to prove Russia is overcoming lawlessness. Klebnikov, the 41-year-old editor of Forbes (FRB.XX) magazine's Russian edition, was shot to death Friday on a Moscow street near his office. He will be buried in the U.S., but the memorial service underlined his deep connections in Russia.
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US wants Russia action on U.S. journalist's killing.
Reuters News, 14 July 2004,
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday demanded quick Russian action to find the gunmen who killed a U.S. journalist in Russia, where Washington has long had concerns about intimidation of the media. Paul Khlebnikov , a 41-year-old investigative journalist who headed the Russian edition of Forbes Magazine which publicizes the names of Russia's richest people, was shot as he left his office on Friday and died on his way to hospital.
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US asks Russia to bring to justice those behind murder of Forbes editor
Agence France Presse, 14 July 2004
The United States urged Russia Wednesday to quickly bring to justice those behind the murder of the Russian editor of Forbes magazine to prevent what it called a climate of fear for journalists. Officials said Moscow had so far not taken up an offer by the United States to assist investigations into the killing of Paul Khlebnikov , who was gunned down in a gangland-style shooting as he left his Moscow office last Friday. "It is important for us that the killers be brought swiftly to justice," US ...
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Khlebnikov brothers to address news conf at US Embassy in Moscow.
ITAR-TASS World Service, 14 July 2004
NEW YORK, July 14 (Itar-Tass) -- The brothers of Paul Khlebnikov , the editor of Forbes Magazine ' s Russian edition shot to death on Friday, will take part in a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Wednesday, the New York headquarters of the Forbes Magazine reported. The press conference is scheduled for 11 am, Moscow time. Mikhail and Pyotr Khlebnikov will attend.
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Hundreds Mourn Death of American Journalist Murdered in Russia
Voice of America Press Releases and Documents, 14 July 2004
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow praised Paul Klebnikov 's love for Russia and said the journalist believed in the country. He said security concerns after the murder could hurt American business investments in Russia. Gunmen on Friday in Moscow ...
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Profile: Russian reporter Anya Ardayeva on recent events and controversies in Russian business
Minnesota Public Radio: Marketplace, 14 July 2004, DAVID BROWN, anchor:
Russia's 100 richest citizens may be getting a knock on the door from the local constabulary. Police are investigating last week's murder of the editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. His funeral was today. The editor had recently reported that Moscow was home to more billionaires than any city in the world, and he compiled a list of the top tier. The editor's murder is just the latest twist in a business drama worthy of Tolstoy or Pushkin. We've all heard about the jailing of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Many now wonder whether these events might be related. We put that question to Anya Ardayeva, a reporter based in Moscow.
Ms. ANYA ARDAYEVA: We can only speculate whether these two events are somehow connected or not. But Paul Khlebnikov did give an interview to a Russian newspaper just several hours before he was shot on Friday, and in that interview, he compared two oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, and ...
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Interview: Andre Zolotov remembers slain journalist Paul Klebnikov
NPR: All Things Considered, 14 July 2004
ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The family of slain journalist Paul Klebnikov held a memorial service today in Moscow. Klebnikov was the American editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. He was shot and killed late Friday as he left his Moscow office. He had reported extensively on Russia's oligarchs and political corruption. Today, Michael Klebnikov spoke about his late brother's commitment to his work.
Mr. MICHAEL KLEBNIKOV (Brother of Paul Klebnikov ): He was motivated by a sense of wanting to make a difference. And I think he realized that his profession is not without risk, but he didn't feel that those risks were significant enough to warrant not doing anything.
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US ambassador content with high-rank control over Khlebnikov case.
ITAR-TASS World Service, 14 July 2004, Ksenia Kaminskaya
MOSCOW, July 14 (Itar-Tass) -- U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, said Monday he was satisfied with the fact that Russia's Prosecutor General had taken personal control over investigation of last Friday ' s murder of the U.S. journalist Paul Khlebnikov , the chief editor of the Russian edition of the Forbes magazine.
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Requiem for Pavel Khlebnikov served at Cathedral of the Redeemer.
ITAR-TASS World Service, 14 July 2004, Ksenia Kaminskaya
MOSCOW, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- A requiem service for Pavel ( Paul) Khlebnikov has been held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. ... find the murderers of the journalist and take them to court. " He noted that American authorities " are ready to assist the Russian law-enforcement agencies in the investigation if this crime. " " Pavel Khlebnikov loved Russia and believed in it, he tried to apply American values here; he was not indifferent to this country ' s future, which makes his fate even more tragic, " said Alexander ...
U.S. national Paul Khlebnikov , a descendant of a Russian family that moved to America with the first wave of Russian emigration in the 20th century, was shot and killed in Moscow last Friday. He ... ... at the journalist when he was going out of his office. They made 10 shots, 4 bullets hit the journalist. He was 41. An American journalist of Russian extraction, Paul ( Pavel) Khlebnikov , was known as the author of a scandalous book " Kremlin ' s Godfather Boris " Before the book went to the press, Mr. Khlebnikov published in Forbes an article saying that the then-Secretary ...
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SERVICE FOR KILLED U.S. JOURNALIST HELD AT MOSCOW CHURCH.
Interfax News Service, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW. July 14 (Interfax) - Over 200 people attended a service for slain journalist Paul Klebnikov at the Transfiguration Church of the Christ the Savior Cathedral on Wednesday.
Among those attending were Paul Klebnikov 's brothers Michael and Peter, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow, leader of the Rodina faction at the State Duma Dmitry Rogozin, and Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, who has taken personal control over the investigation into Klebnikov's murder.
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SOLVING FORBES EDITOR'S MURDER VITAL BOTH FOR RUSSIA AND U.S.
Interfax News Service, 14 July 2004
MOSCOW. July 14 (Interfax) - The family of murdered Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov has expressed gratitude to supporters in Russia and has called on law enforcement agencies to solve the crime. Klebnikov's brother Michael told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday that the journalist's relatives are confident that both the killers and those who ordered the murder will be found, an outcome he said is vital for both Russia and the United States. U.S. citizens' murders should not remain unpunished, he said.
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THE DEATH OF PAUL KHLEBNIKOV, ENEMY OF THE OLIGARCHS
WPS: What the Papers Say, 14 July 2004, Mavra Kosichkina
"Killed twice": that is how the Russian press is describing Paul Khlebnikov , chief editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, who was murdered in Moscow last Friday. The circumstances of the American journalist's death are no less shocking than the murder ... ... to wheel the trolley out of it (that's not a police officer's job, after all).
The problem for all those who were "present, but not to blame" is only that Paul Khlebnikov was a citizen of the United States, so there is some hope that the circumstances of his death will be more thoroughly investigated than usual - or rather, that there ... ... there is evidence of the contrary, all such speculations can only be considered as attempts to blacken the name of the Moscow mayor. The main danger is that murder of Paul Khlebnikov could be used "as a bridgehead for a new attack on representatives of big business in Russia," says Semyon Novoprudsky in [Vremya Novostei].
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Killing messengers
Lancaster New Era/Intelligencer Journal/Sunday News, 14 July 2004
On days when the editorial columns of this newspaper are particularly critical of individuals or institutions or situations in this community, the worst we have to fear is a telephone call from the offended person or an irate reader. In other parts of the world, however, editors have to fear for their lives. ... attack in the southwestern city of Khulna. Witnesses said that the assailant posed as a peanut seller, approached Kabir and tossed at least two homemade bombs at him. Last Friday, Paul Klebnikov , Forbes Magazine's Russian edition editor, was gunned down in Moscow. He had written extensively about "bandit-capitalism'' that controlled Russia throughout the 1990s. Journalists recently marched in Tijuana to honor Ortiz ...
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Interview: Andre Zolotov remembers slain journalist Paul Klebnikov
NPR: All Things Considered, 14 July 2004
... other friends that, in recent years, there were periods when he had to keep a low profile during his visits to Moscow.
BLOCK: Was it a concern of yours that Paul Klebnikov might be going a little too far in his reporting, and it could lead someplace very bad?
Mr. ZOLOTOV: Not really. He was such an optimistic and upbeat person. He ... ... for your loss.
BLOCK: Andre Zolotov is editor in chief of Russia Profile magazine in Moscow, talking about the investigation into the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov .
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Managed Criminality
The Wall Street Journal Europe, 14 July 2004, David Satter
The shooting on a Moscow street of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov on Friday demonstrates the extent to which, despite talk about Russia becoming a normal country, the society is still a hostage to organized crime. Russia today is not as violent as it was in the mid-1990s, when the competition between gangs often led to massacres in city centers in the middle of the day. What this means, however, is that criminality in Russia today is institutionalized. Territory has been divided up so competing interests no longer need to wage war on each other. But these interests are corrupt in themselves and, when threatened with revelations about their operations, can kill with impunity. It was this situation that made possible the murder of Paul Klebnikov .
The killing of an American journalist is likely to inspire a temporary flurry of activity on the part of the Russian authorities. The prosecutor general, Vladimir Ustinov, has announced ... ... deadliest countries for journalists. If the U.S. does not react forcefully, however, even that limited immunity will be gone. At the same time, the Russians will do nothing to find Paul Klebnikov 's murderers and a system will be confirmed in Russia that weds the country's future to dictatorship and organized crime. Mr. Satter, affiliated with the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute, ...
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The Murder of Paul Klebnikov
The Wall Street Journal, 14 July 2004, David Satter
The shooting on a Moscow street of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov on Friday demonstrates the extent to which, despite talk about Russia becoming a normal country, the society is still a hostage to organized crime. Russia today is not as violent as it was in the mid-1990s, when the competition between gangs often led to massacres in city centers in the middle of the day. What this means, however, is that criminality in Russia today is institutionalized. Territory has been divided up so competing interests no longer need to wage war on each other. But these interests are corrupt in themselves and, when threatened with revelations about their operations, can kill with impunity.
It was this situation that made possible the murder of Paul Klebnikov . The killing of an American journalist is likely to inspire a temporary flurry of activity on the part of the Russian authorities. The prosecutor general, Vladimir Ustinov, has announced ... ... deadliest countries for journalists. If the U.S. does not react forcefully, however, even that limited immunity will be gone. At the same time, the Russians will do nothing to find Paul Klebnikov 's murderers and a system will be confirmed in Russia that weds the country's future to dictatorship and organized crime. Mr. Satter, affiliated with the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute, ...
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Billionaire's trial unsettles Russia's economy ; Investors, business leaders have serious case of the jitters
USA Today, 14 July 2004, Bill Nichols
MOSCOW -- Financial analysts warned after the arrest of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky on tax charges last fall that the appearance of a government vendetta against Russia's richest man could chill foreign investment and choke Russia's revitalized economy. As Khodorkovsky's trial resumed this week and his company, Yukos Oil, faces possible bankruptcy, Western business leaders in Moscow say those fears have not yet been realized. But that doesn't mean Russia's business class doesn't continue to suffer from a persistent case of the jitters -- a state of nervousness that has only increased in recent weeks. ... oil sales and nearly 4% of its gross domestic product may be having an effect on investors.
The sense of uneasiness was only compounded by Friday's murder in Moscow of Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. U.S. officials in Moscow believe Klebnikov's death was tied to his investigations into corruption in Russia's business world.
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