RUSSOPHOBIA AGAIN?
RIA Novosty, 16 July 2004
MOSCOW (Vladimir Simonov, RIA Novosti political analyst).
Western papers are on sale in the Moscow streets freely. Their catchy heads are biting. "90s' Instability Revisits Moscow," says the Christian Science Monitor. "Russian Market Stays Wild West," The Wall Street Journal joins in. "Not All Equal before the Law," warns Der Tagesspiegel of Germany, while Spain's El Pais highlights "Moscow Godfathers". "After the Wreck," comments The Financial Times. [All headings back-translated from the Russian-Tr.] ... of a great many instances. That is what President Putin had in mind as he referred to "planned campaigns to discredit this country". One such campaign has unfolded after the Paul Klebnikov murder. Western-based media outlets proceed from the tragedy to prove that "instability is coming back to Russia". To put it differently, they are out to discredit one of President Putin's ...
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A fallen reporter's legacy of loyalty Meanwhile
International Herald Tribune, 16 July 2004, Musa Klebnikov
It is hard to say what motivates writers and journalists to work very hard every day to seek truths and explain themes in the world they live in. In the case of my husband, Paul, who was shot dead outside his office in Moscow last Friday, it was his love of Russia. This love was inherited from generations of loyal, dedicated people, and from his family. They all wanted Russia to be good, strong and moral. Ancestral Russian generals gazed down on him as he wrote at his desk. He sang old Russian songs to the children. In Paul's last phone call to us, he asked our son to bring a photograph of a great- grandfather shot by the Bolsheviks to donate to a Russian museum. History mattered to Paul. Paul's greatest inspiration came from Pyotr Stolypin, one of the last prime ministers of the czarist era. For years, Paul worked on a doctoral dissertation, and then a book, about Stolypin's reforms. Paul believed that the last years of the Russian Empire were a time of positive change and reform. ... a successful, moral society in Russia. I plan to revive his work on Stolypin in order to inspire more loyalists. History does matter. *
Musa Klebnikov, an urban designer, married Paul Klebnikov in 1991. She was in Italy with their three children when her husband was killed in Moscow on July 9.
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Capitalism: Russia's golden goose
Financial Post, 16 July 2004, Peter Foster
When the Soviet Union collapsed, a naive belief prevailed that capitalism would somehow rapidly "break out" amidst the Communist rubble. Certainly self-interest, the entrepreneurial spirit and the desire for property -- all of which had been suppressed or hypocritically concealed under Communism -- were abundantly present. Naivete, however, lay in the failure to understand the importance of sound legal and political institutions and, equally important, of the cultural characteristics of trust and co-operation that we take for granted in the West, but which have taken centuries to develop.
Early Russian reformers believed that the secret of success was to get productive assets out of state hands and into private ones as rapidly as possible. However, the crude way in which the transfer took place, with a small group of well-connected "oligarchs" seizing control, has inevitably had adverse ramifications. The greatest is the Kremlin's recent assault on Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos. ... whether not merely Yukos but the Russian economy will be brought down with him, particularly with a banking crisis on the horizon and negative reverberations from the recent murder of Paul Klebnikov , the editor of Forbes's Russian edition. From a purely economic point of view, there was a great deal to be said for the rapid transfer of assets from the state ...
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Paul Klebnikov;Lives in brief;Obituary;The Register
The Times, 16 July 2004
Paul Klebnikov , journalist, was born on June 3, 1963. He died on July 9, 2004, aged 41. As editor of the Russian version of the business magazine Forbes, Paul Klebnikov was uniquely placed to comment on the troubled political and economic situation in the country. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Yeltsin's decision to attempt the creation of a market economy by the privatisation of state property, Klebnikov had been spending around three months a year in Russia getting to know the businessmen at the heart of the developing capitalist economy.
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Murdered US Editor Was Probing Russian Reporter's Death
Dow Jones International News,16 July 2004
MOSCOW (AP)--The Forbes magazine editor gunned down on a Moscow street last week had begun investigating the killing of a prominent Russian journalist, a Moscow publisher said Friday. American Paul Klebnikov was looking into the 1995 shooting death of TV journalist Vladislav Listyev with the aim of possibly publishing a book on the case, Valery Streletsky, who published two books by Klebnikov in Russian, told The Associated Press.
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Obituary: Paul Klebnikov: American journalist probing Russian business
The Guardian. 16 July 2004, Carolynne Wheeler and Christopher Reed
In Russia, investigative journalism can have serious, even fatal, consequences. None the less, Paul Klebnikov , the American journalist and editor of the business magazine Forbes Russia, who was shot dead in Moscow at the age of 41, was fearless. He had gone to Moscow from the New-York based parent publication prior to the launch of the Russian-language edition in April, and it bore his personal stamp. Energetic and hard-working, he believed that Russia's often chaotic, high-stakes business world had become calmer and more civilised, and he wanted to produce a serious publication capable of contributing to this improved environment. ... with Chechen rebel commanders. Though born in New York, he was motivated by a passionate identification with Russia and its culture - he was known to his Russian readers as Pavel Khlebnikov . The descendant of emigres who had fled after the 1917 revolution, he was proud to number among his forebears Ivan Pouschine, a lawyer friend of Alexander Pushkin who had been ...
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Russian associate of murdered American journalist says he was investigating killing of Russian journalist
Associated Press Newswires, 16 July 2004, JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) - In the weeks before American journalist Paul Klebnikov was shot to death on a Moscow street, he had begun investigating the nearly decade-old killing of a prominent Russian journalist and television figure, a Moscow publisher said Friday. A Russian newspaper meanwhile cited an attorney as saying that Klebnikov, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, had approached him for information about the killing of another journalist.
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SHOT FORBES EDITOR DOOMED BY SLIPUPS
New York Daily News, 16 July 2004, DEREK ROSE
A SERIES OF horrific mishaps may have contributed to the death of a Forbes editor murdered in Moscow last week, according to Russian newspapers. Shot while leaving his Moscow office Friday, former New Yorker Paul Klebnikov died while trapped in a stuck hospital elevator, Russian media reported.
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Putin and Russia's future
The Star-Ledger, 16 July 2004
EDITORIAL
Before he was gunned down last week in Moscow, Paul Klebnikov , editor of the Forbes magazine Russian edition, was interviewed by a Russian journalist who wanted to know what Klebnikov thought of the business community's rocky relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Emergency medical response mishaps doomed Forbes editor shot in Moscow
Daily News (KRTBN), 16 July 2004,
Jul. 16--A series of horrific mishaps may have contributed to the death of a Forbes editor murdered in Moscow last week, according to Russian newspapers. Shot while leaving his Moscow office Friday, former New Yorker Paul Klebnikov died while trapped in a stuck hospital elevator, Russian media reported.
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Slain American was investigating killings of Russian TV reporter and other journalist
Associated Press Writer, 16 July 2004, JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) - In the weeks before Paul Klebnikov was shot to death on a Moscow street, the American journalist had begun investigating the 1995 killing of a Russian TV reporter, a publisher said Friday, while a newspaper said he may also have been looking into a second slaying. The new information indicated Klebnikov may have been vigorously inquiring into one of Russia's most sensitive issues. The Committee to Protect Journalists has listed Russia as one of the world's 10 most hazardous countries for reporters.
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The war is on in Moscow and freedom of speech is losing: Forbes magazine editor gunned down as Putin tightens his grip on the media
Edmonton Journal, 16 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 last week, 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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Slain journo probed '95 death of Listyev; Book linked to Klebnikov murder
Daily Variety, 16 July 2004, Tom Birchenough
This article was updated on July 18, 2004 at 3:03 p.m.
MOSCOW -- First possible leads on the motives for the killing of Paul Klebnikov , the American-born editor of Forbes Russian edition, came Friday with news from associates that the journalist had begun research into a new book on the 1995 murder of Vladislav Listyev, who was then director general of national channel ORT (Public Russian Television).
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IN DANGER IN RUSSIA
The Boston Globe, 16 July 2004
FOURTEEN journalists have been assassinated in Russia since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000. None of the crimes has been solved, not one of the criminals punished. Last Friday, Paul Klebnikov , editor in chief of Forbes Russia, was murdered leaving work by a gunman who fired four shots from a car. Before he died, Klebnikov said he did not recognize the gunman and did not know who might have ordered the attack.
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Streletsky: Klebnikov Book Was on Listyev
The Moscow Times, 16 July 2004, Catherine Belton
Paul Klebnikov , the American journalist who was shot dead in Moscow, was starting to work on a new investigation into the 1995 murder of television director Vladimir Listyev, an event he earlier linked to Boris Berezovsky in a controversial article for Forbes magazine, his Russian publisher said Thursday. "He was beginning to collect material about Listyev's killing," said Valery Streletsky, the publisher, who previously served as a deputy to President Boris Yeltsin's chief bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov, a longtime Berezovsky foe. "Only a very small circle of people knew about this."
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A Tragically Curtailed Experiment
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia), 16 July 2004
The editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Pavel Yuryevich Klebnikov, an American citizen with a Russian name, was murdered on Friday evening as he was heading home from work. Thus was tragically cut short the experiment that this "Russian foreigner," who took a professional interest in Russia and loved the country, chose to perform on himself. Paul Klebnikov was a descendant of emigres who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution. Born in New York in 1963, he spoke Russian from childhood, and, apart from English, had a good command of French and Italian. ... the rise of xenophobia in Europe, traditions of tax evasion in Italy and problems of secondary education in France, as well as analyzing conservative trends in America's black population. But Paul Klebnikov 's true passion and love was Russia. He first came to Russia as a student in 1984. He studied Russian history and made great strides together with his studies. In 1985, ... ... market, by the combination of Forbes' traditions and a talented team of young Russian journalists. This most viable of ideas had fatal consequences for him personally.
After being mortally wounded, Paul Klebnikov said that he did not understand why he had been shot. Indeed, he had not been involved in any journalistic investigations in recent months. Thus, one can conclude that people ...
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