Paul Klebnikov - Obituary
The Economist, 17 July 2004
Paul Klebnikov , American journalist, died in Moscow on July 9th, aged 41
PAUL KLEBNIKOV thought that Russia had changed, that grievances there were no longer pursued by recourse to contract killings and that investigative journalists therefore had no cause to fear for their safety. Even as he lay dying last Friday, he could name no one who might have given the order to the gunmen who had just fired a volley of shots at him as he left his Moscow office. Even so, plenty of Russians had reason to dislike, or fear, him.
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US journalist shot dead in Moscow
The Australian, 17 July 2004
CONTROVERSY
IT was the kind of killing American journalist Paul Khlebnikov had written about many times while covering Moscow's often nasty convergence of politics, commerce and crime, said Canada's The Globe and Mail. "But this time, the Forbes Russia editor-in-chief was the victim."
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The lethal side of Russian corruption
The Age, 17 July 2004,
MICHAEL CAPUTO
We are about to find out whether Putin's Russia is serious about the rule of law. American journalist Paul Klebnikov was shot to death outside my office building on Friday last week. 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. ... media freedom. And the West must demand results in this murder investigation and require that the assassins and their bosses be detected, arrested, tried and punished.
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. US writer Michael Caputo was an election adviser to Boris Yeltsin's administration ...
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Klebnikov was probing reporter"s murder
The Independent, 17 July 2004, Andrew Osborn
PAVEL KLEBNIKOV , the American newspaperman shot dead on a Moscow street a week ago, had been investigating the notorious gangland killing of another journalist, his publisher said yesterday. In a grimly ironic twist, Valery Streletsky, head of the Russian publisher Detektiv Press, said Mr Klebnikov had been planning a book about the unsolved 1995 murder of the Russian TV journalist Vladimir Listyev. "He had begun to collect material about Listyev"s killing," Mr Streletsky said.
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Russian editor killed while investigating another murder
The Independent, London ; 17 July 2004, Andrew Osborn
Paul Klebnikov , the U.S. journalist who died in a hail of bullets on a Moscow street this month, had been investigating the notorious gangland killing of a journalist prior to his own slaying, his publisher said yesterday. In a grimly ironic twist to the case, Valery Streletsky, head of Russian publisher Detektiv Press, said that Klebnikov had been planning to write a book about the unsolved 1995 murder of famous Russian TV journalist Vladimir Listyev.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Journalists in Russia
International Herald Tribune, 17 July 2004
The Yabloko Party views the murder of Paul Klebnikov as an exceptionally grave political event. At the core, we view this as an act of intimidation against foreign correspondents in Russia. The purpose is to frighten every one who intends to scrutinize seriously and without bias what is really happening in our country. This crime speaks to two things. First, the authorities in Russia do not wish to fulfill their obligation to protect not only their citizens, but also citizens of other countries especially if their activities do not correspond with the interests of the ruling group. Other conclusions are not excluded, and for that we need a need a serious, independent investigation. Secondly, criminal elements are directly involved in politics. They freely cross the line even when it involves internationally known public figures Galina Starovoitova, Sergei Yushenkov, Valentin Tsvetkov, Paul Klebnikov .
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Critique of Worldwide Media Coverage
CNN International: International Correspondents, 17 July 2004, Fionnuala Sweeney
FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. I'm Fionnuala Sweeney, in London. Welcome to CNN'S INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS, where we examine how the media are covering the big stories.
On this edition, questions of unequal treatment. Are the American media going easier on U.S. President George W. Bush than their British counterparts are on Prime Minister Tony Blair over Iraq? We'll also look at the impact of the war there on journalistic efforts: what can be show, what constitutes taking sides. ... this week with a tragic development to an issue we discussed last week, the killing of journalists in Russia. Hours after we taped the program, gunmen in Moscow shot dead Paul Klebnikov , the American editor of "Forbes" magazine in Russia. The attack came two months after Klebnikov published a list of the country's 100 richest people. At the time of this taping, ...
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Death of a friend.
Irish Times, 17 July 2004
Brian Boyd pays tribute to Paul Klebnikov , the editor of the Russian edition of 'Forbes' shot dead last week
It's a funny thing to turn on the news and see the face of an old chum and colleague beaming straight at you. What's "Kalashnikov" gone and done now, I thought? I knew he had been made editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine and was busy exposing the sordid secrets of Russia's sudden rush of "bandit capitalist" billionaires so it must be some connection with his work. It was. He had been shot dead in a Mafia-style hit. Paul Klebnikov was just 41 when he died. He had made powerful enemies through his investigative work of Russia's criminal classes. As he left work last Saturday, he was shot four times ...
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Editor's Death Raises Questions About Change in Russia
The New York Times, 18 July 2004, by C.J. Chivers, Erin E. Arvedlund and Sophia Kishkovsky and written by Mr. Chivers.
MOSCOW, July 17 -- Paul Klebnikov , the editor of Forbes Russia, was dying. Shot four times after he left his office on the night of July 9, he was in an ambulance without an oxygen bottle, bound for a hospital where the elevator summoned to deliver him to surgery would stall. Before losing consciousness he told a fellow journalist that he did not know who had shot him, or why. Not long afterward, he was dead. ... wearing light-colored trousers, and Michael Klebnikov at the front left of the coffin of their brother Paul on Wednesday in Moscow. (Photo by James Hill for The New York Times); Paul Klebnikov was killed outside his Moscow office on July 9. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)
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Editor's killing raises Russian ghosts His work put him at the centre ofbusiness, crimepower and wealth
Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 2004
MOSCOW -- Paul Klebnikov , the editor of Forbes Russia, was dying. Shot four times after he left his office on the night of July 9, he was in an ambulance without an oxygen bottle, bound for a hospital where the elevator summoned to deliver him to surgery would stall.
Before losing consciousness he told a fellow journalist that he did not know who had shot him, or why. Not long afterward, he was dead. ... post-Soviet disarray, how far and how fast can Russia really go?
"The country can build skyscrapers and solve international conflicts and even win tennis tournaments," said Peter Klebnikov, one of Paul Klebnikov 's brothers. "But so long as it's considered completely normal to resolve disputes and kill a person who is interfering with the way you want to live, this country is ailing." ...
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Commentary: Lack of action by President Vladimir Putin in murder of Forbes' Paul Klebnikov in Russia
News Forum (WNBC New York), 18 July 2004
GABE PRESSMAN, host: On July 9th, as he stood outside his Moscow office, Paul Klebnikov , an American journalist, was murdered. A car carrying at least two men was driving by. They shot him four times.
... `The slain journalist,' Schmemann wrote, `thought that Russia really wanted to become normal, that its president really wanted to know what was wrong. That doesn't appear to be the case. Paul Klebnikov , born in New York, the son of Russian immigrants, upset many of Russia's hundred wealthiest people. It's sad that the leader of Russia has failed to react swiftly and with ...
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Expert view: The robber barons need a touch of Putin"s iron fist
Independent On Sunday, 18 July 2004, Christopher Walker
"We had to clean our teeth in champagne, the water was so rancid" ... "The chambermaid stole all my underwear - I nearly froze to death" ... The tales told by friends and colleagues ahead of a trip to Russia used to be just a little off-putting. One lady even confessed: "I ended up acting as a spy - helping refuseniks." The reality today proved very different. Russia seemed highly Westernised and prosperous, the food was excellent, and my hotel put the Copenhagen Sheraton, where I had just come from, to shame. Then there was the murder. At 10pm last Friday, Paul Klebnikov , an American of Russian descent, left his office at Forbes Russia magazine and was shot four times from a passing car. The rumour reported in The St Petersburg Times was ...
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Journalist's assassination may carry secret economic message for Putin.
The Business, 18 July 2004, Richard Heller
The murder of Paul Klebnikov , the editor of Forbes magazine's licensed Russian edition in what looks like a contract killing, is likely to raise fears among investors about the rule of law in the country. Klebnikov was shot on 9 July as he left his office. The motive for the killing is unclear. Alexander Gordeyev, the editor of Newsweek's Russian edition who was with him at the time, asked him several times why he had been shot. Klebnikov's answer was that he had no idea. One line of thinking suggests Klebnikov - widely regarded as a fine journalist - may have made enemies from among Russia's rich oligarchs. Another line of speculation involves publication of a Russia Rich list in the magazine he edited. A number of those listed objected. Later, Igor Yakovenko, the head of the Union of Russian Journalists remarked to a Moscow radio interviewer: "Klebnikov's area of coverage is a minefield. . .
... real target of the Klebnikov assassination was the government and its efforts to make Russia seem a safe place for foreign investment while still enlarging its role in the economy. Paul Klebnikov was the ideal high-profile target for people who want to curb foreign investment in Russia. "Here you have a journalist with an international reputation. To have killed some investment banker ...
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The Week in Words
The Gazette, 18 July 2004
"Klebnikov had little understanding of reality. In the West, the rich are happy to have their names mentioned publicly. In Russia, where we've seen the biggest redistribution of property in history with no laws, it is a very sensitive topic." Russian-born businessman Boris Berezovsky, now living in London, speaking last Sunday on the July 9 shooting death of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov .
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Shot editor's wife fights for vanishing city
The Sunday Times, 18 July 2004, Mark Franchetti
THE widow of Paul Klebnikov , the American magazine editor shot dead in an apparent contract killing in Moscow, is to honour his memory by campaigning to save historic buildings from being torn down by the city's developers. Marjorie Klebnikov (known as Musa) said her husband, 41, who edited the Russian edition of the American business magazine Forbes, had been preparing articles on the threat to Moscow's architectural heritage from a construction boom.
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SECOND JOURNALIST KILLED IN RUSSIA
SBS 6.30pm TV World News Transcripts, 18 July 2004
A second magazine editor has been found murdered in Moscow. The body of journalist Pail Peloyan was found on the side of a highway around the Russian capital. He had suffered severe blows to his skull and knife wounds to his chest. Mr Peloyan was the editor of an Armenian-Russian language magazine specialising in literature and arts. 10 days ago, the American editor of the Russian edition of 'Forbes' business magazine, Paul Klebnikov , was shot dead as he left his office.
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Of sordid stories and a press under siege
The Record, 18 July 2004, FRANK SCANDALE
THE managing editor walked into my office last Tuesday and started talking. Now the managing editor is a man who could play five-card stud with Chris Moneymaker of ESPN's "World Series of Poker" fame and win because you couldn't tell if he was holding four aces or the instructions for canasta. Likewise when the managing editor, Art Lenehan, discusses news. You have to listen to the words and not rely on facial expressions, which come around as often as Haley's Comet. Managing editors are second in command in most newsrooms, so you need to listen to them when they speak. ... for granted the heritage of a free, aggressive, and unfettered press we have here in the United States. Before the Kushner story broke, I was working on a column about Paul Klebnikov .
Who? Exactly. In Moscow, the 41-year-old editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, died at the hands of unknown gunmen outside his office nine days ago. Klebnikov was shot four times. ...
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