[lbo-talk] Russia confiscates papers that have a "political look"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 30 13:51:33 PDT 2008


On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> I'm refering to his accounts at the time and elsewhere, which were
> that the paper became economically unviable after investors pulled
> out after the paper had a visit from the inspectorate, which
> supposedly scared off the investors. That's why they had a
> fundraiser. If he says something different now, I suppose something
> must have changed. I don't see what your disagreement is. They were
> investigated, but they weren't actually shut down. The shutting down
> was because of no money.

Ok. The gov didn't shut them down directly, but the visit from the guys in Soviet-style suits caused all the money people to run away, bankrupting the paper. Which means that the gov shut down the paper indirectly because they didn't like its contents. What do you call that?

Doug



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