[lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 10 13:29:26 PDT 2004


Peter Lavelle wrote:


>For my tastes, Dano, Klebnikov wrote about other people's money - a
>dangerous profession still in Russia. What he thought was open and
>honest journalism about "who owns Russia" bothed a lot of people.
>There is already a lot of fear here! Putin (he controls everything,
>right!!!???) has no reason to be happy with this murder. Klebnikov
>wrote on Russia in much the same way Putin wants to change it. I am
>personally very hurt with the loss of Klebnikov.

Our papers are full of stories now about press freedom has virtually disappeared in Putin's Russia. Is there any truth to this?

Doug



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