Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
An article Paul Klebnikov contributed to The Moscow Times in 2001. Is he strengthening the rule of law? Is the wave of gangsterism subsiding? Are small businesses flourishing? Are civic associations multiplying? These are the yardsticks by which we will…
[The opening clause edited out in 2019] …the NYT’s reaction to Paul Klebnikov’s assassination was Journalists’ Deaths Make It Harder to Excuse Putin’s Excesses by Serge Schmemann, and the WaPo’s, Same Old Ruthless Russia by Michael R. Caputo. Both opinion…
I was going to write about the banking crisis emerging out of thin air in Russia when news came that Paul Khlebnikov, the editor-in-chief of Forbes‘ Russian edition, was shot in his head near his office in Moscow. He died…