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Russia's richest woman sues Forbes magazine MOSCOW, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Russia's richest woman, who is also the wife of Moscow's mayor, is suing the Russian edition of Forbes magazine for defamation over a story detailing her business interests, her company said on Wednesday. A spokesman for Yelena Baturina's Inteko firm said it had filed a suit against the magazine and its editor in Russian courts seeking compensation totalling 213,000 roubles ($8,100). "The article published in the December edition of Forbes magazine contains information which is not true," said Inteko spokesman Gennady Terebkov. That information included "the incorrect reproduction of...

The [Russian] Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov and ordered a new trial, a court spokesman said. The court, hearing an appeal by prosecutors and the victim's lawyers, said a new trial should be held with a new judge, court spokesman Pavel Odintsov said.

MOSCOW - A court opened a preliminary hearing Tuesday in the trial of three ethnic Chechens accused of killing U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, one of the highest-profile murders in Russia in recent years. ADVERTISEMENT The proceedings took place behind closed doors, with the court deciding that Kazbek Dukuzov, Musa Vakhayev and Fail Sadretdinov will be tried by a jury, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing Dukuzov's lawyer, Ruslan Khasanov. Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was gunned down outside the magazine's Moscow offices on July 9, 2004. Prosecutors allege that Dukuzov and Vakhayev killed Klebnikov on orders from...

MOSCOW, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Russia is to put two Chechens accused of murdering U.S. magazine editor Paul Klebnikov in July 2004 on trial, prosecutors said on Monday. Russia has been under increasing pressure from the United States to find those responsible for killing Klebnikov, editor of the Russian version of Forbes, who was shot dead in Moscow. A statement published on the Prosecutor General's website (www.genproc.gov.ru) said the police investigation was over and the suspects would now face court. "In the course of the criminal investigation it was established that the murder was carried out by members of an...

The murder of American journalist July 20, 2005 A year ago, the crusading American journalist Paul Klebnikov was murdered outside his office in Moscow, shot dead in a premeditated killing. The questions of who murdered him and why remain disputed, and show how far Russia remains from guaranteeing liberties for prominent foreign reporters, to say nothing of its own citizens. Mr. Klebnikov was in no small way the leading edge of free and open inquiry by foreign journalists in Russia, and quite possibly by anyone there. Renowned for his toughness, his knowledge of Russian business and politics and his singular...

Russians blame Chechen for US editor's murder Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow Friday June 17, 2005 The Guardian Russian prosecutors say the murder of an American journalist, Paul Klebnikov, shot dead in Moscow last year, was ordered by a Chechen separatist angered by the reporter's negative portrayal of him - and have declared the case closed. Khodzh-Ahmed Nukhayev, a former official in the separatist government, paid a gang of Chechens to kill Mr Klebnikov because of a 2003 book critical of Mr Nukhayev, the prosecutor's office said yesterday. The killing highlighted the dangers faced in Russia by investigative journalists, who...

Russian prosecutors said on Thursday that a Chechen, described by media as a prominent separatist rebel, had ordered the killing of the U.S. editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. A spokesman for the prosecutor general's office said the investigation of the killing of Paul Klebnikov, shot dead in Moscow in July, had now been wound up. "We have identified a person who had ordered the murder," he said, adding that several people directly involved in the murder had been arrested and would stand trial. The alleged Chechen mastermind, who was named, is not one of those arrested so...

Putin’s Fascism and Klebnikov's Murder Alexandr Nemets Monday, Aug. 2, 2004 Russia under President Vladimir Putin has become Murder Inc. The cold-blooded assassination of Paul Klebnikov, editor of Forbes Russian edition, on June 10 in Moscow proves this claim. Western media appeared shocked by the killing of one of their own; though of Russian descent, Klebnikov, 41, was an American working for one of the West’s most influential business publications. There had long been the view that Westerners working in Russia were protected and that Russian crimes were largely fratricidal. No longer. Now that Klebnikov has joined the list of...

Early in February Russia's electricity boss, Anatoly Chubias, was happy. The events of 9-11 had opened things up for Russia, he said, "The relationship [between the West and Russia] had changed." They had become, he added, "more tranquil." After all, the West had stopped asking about the character of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The near-hysterical debate about whether the Communists will return to power in Russia, whether everything will go back to the way it was … has disappeared," explained Chubias. As far as the electricity boss was concerned, there had been much too much talk of Putin's KGB background. ...

Posted on Tue, Sep. 28, 2004 2 Chechens arrested in American journalist's killing By DAVE MONTGOMERY Knight Ridder Newspapers MOSCOW - After an 11-week investigation, authorities on Tuesday announced their first break in the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov with the arrests of two Chechen men in Moscow. Moscow police said the men were involved in the July 9 killing of Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition. The men allegedly kidnapped another person before Klebnikov was shot outside his Moscow office, the Interfax News Agency reported. The high-profile killing ignited a welter of conspiracy theories pointing in...

MOSCOW -- Police in Moscow have detained two Chechen men on suspicion of involvement in the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov in the Russian capital, the city police chief said Tuesday. Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin told the Interfax news agency that the two Chechen men detained overnight were involved in the July 9 murder of Klebnikov, the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition. Pronin was quoted as saying that police had seized three guns from the two suspects. He said that prior to Klebnikov's killing, the same men had taken a hostage whom he wouldn't name....

A Russian journalist has been found stabbed and beaten to death on a city road, the second journalist killed in one week in Moscow. Russian officials said Sunday they are treating the death of Payl Peloyan as a murder. His body was found Saturday. Mr. Peloyan was the editor of Armyanski Pereulok (Armenian Lane). Investigators are not ruling out a link between his death and his work with the Armenian arts magazine. Mr. Peloyan's death comes one week after the murder of U.S. citizen Paul Klebnikov, who edited the Russian edition of the U.S. financial magazine, Forbes. Police are investigating...

Jim Michaels, the longtime editor of Forbes and now the editorial vice president of our company, was classically on point when I asked him about Paul Klebnikov, our colleague who was shot to death in Moscow just as we were putting this issue to bed: "You can say of Paul, without exaggeration, that he gave his life for the truth. Paul believed in his soul in the greatness of Russia. His harsh criticism of the post-Soviet kleptocracy sprang from a passion to see that greatness realized." Paul Klebnikov, 1963-2004 Killed In Russia, Forbes Editor Mourned A Statement From Steve Forbes,...

Klebnikov Died of 10 Bullet Wounds — Paper Created: 14.07.2004 13:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:35 MSK, 9 hours 28 minutes ago MosNews U.S.-born journalist Paul Klebnikov, the head of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, killed Friday night, died not in the hospital elevator but in the ambulance, Gazeta newspaper wrote Wednesday. It also reported that he had not four but ten fatal wounds. The physicians in the ambulance did not immediately notice all the bullet holes, including one in Klebnikov’s head, the head of the information department of emergency station, Marina Zakharova, was quoted by the paper as...

MOSCOW -- 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. As Mr. Klebnikov left his office Friday night and headed toward a nearby metro station, a black Lada sedan approached. Quickly closing the distance, the car's windows were rolled down and one, perhaps two, guns emerged. Mr. Klebnikov was shot four times and died of chest wounds on the way to the hospital. Yesterday, as friends held a private funeral service for the...

Friends and Colleagues Hold Funeral Service for American Editor of Russian Forbes Edition Mara D. Bellaby/Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - Friends and colleagues of the slain American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition held a small, private funeral service Sunday 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. Klebnikov will buried in the United States. Klebnikov, 41, was gunned down late Friday outside the magazine's offices. Russia's Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov has said that he was taking personal control of the investigation, which authorities...

<p>MOSCOW — The American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition and author of a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky (search) was shot to death late Friday, the magazine said.</p> <p>Paul Klebnikov (search), 41, was hit four times outside the magazine's office and died in a rescue-squad vehicle, Russian news reports said. The radio station Ekho Moskvy said shells of two different caliber were found at the scene, indicating at least two assailants.</p>