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Thread ID: 14502 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-07-10
2004-07-10 03:49 | User Profile
Seems as if the kosher nostra is not going to give up power without a fight. Here's hoping that Mr. Putin will have an excuse to start a new pogrom.
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Editor shot dead in Moscow street The editor of Russian edition of the financial magazine Forbes has been shot dead near his office in Moscow. Paul Klebnikov, 41, was shot four times in the street at about 2200 (1800 GMT) on Friday and died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital, police said.
Reports say shells of different calibre were found at the scene of the shooting, indicating that there were at least two attackers.
The US citizen was an outspoken critic of Russia's wealthy oligarchs.
The Forbes headquarters in New York described him as a superb and courageous reporter who loved Russia deeply.
"I don't think that [the murder] is linked to any article that we have published or which was to have appeared in the next issue," Forbes Russia chairman Maxim Kashulinski told the AFP news agency.
"I don't know why it happened," he added.
Critical book
The Russian edition of the US journal, which spotlights powerful celebrities, was launched earlier this year.
It published a list of the country's wealthiest people and claimed that Moscow had more billionaires than any other city in the world.
Mr Klebnikov, born in New York to Russian immigrants, had worked for Forbes for at least 13 years.
He wrote a controversial article in 1996, questioning the honesty of exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky.
Mr Berezovsky filed a libel suit and the magazine was forced to retract allegations made in the article.
In 2001, Mr Klebnikov published a best-selling book, Godfather of the Kremlin, which was also highly critical of Mr Berezovsky.
Mr Berezovsky is wanted on fraud charges in Russia, but has been given asylum in Britain and has changed his name.
Story from BBC NEWS: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/3882001.stm[/url]
Published: 2004/07/10 01:37:20 GMT
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2004-07-10 03:58 | User Profile
You don't suppose that stories like the following had any bearing on Mr Klebnikov's untimely demise? - (Never mind that little man with the big nose behind the curtain). :caiphas: = :dung:
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Moscow 'has most billionaires' The Russian capital Moscow now boasts more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to a survey by Forbes magazine. The study also estimates that a quarter of Russia's wealth is now concentrated in the hands of just 100 people.
Topping the list with an estimated fortune of $15.2bn is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the oil firm Yukos, who is presently in jail facing charges of fraud and tax evasion.
The 37-year-old oil and aluminium tycoon, Roman Abramovich, who last year bought London's Chelsea Football Club, is Russia's second wealthiest man, worth $12bn.
'New stage of capitalism'
Oil and gas industrialist Victor Vekselberg, who made the headlines this year when he bought the world's second-largest collection of Faberge eggs, came in third with $5.9bn.
Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin, co-owners of Norilsk Nickel, came in fourth and fifth with their wealth estimated at $5.4bn each.
RUSSIA'S RICHEST MEN Mikhail Khodorkovsky $15.2bn Roman Abramovich $12.5bn Victor Vekselberg $5.9bn Mikhail Prokhorov $5.4bn Vladimir Potanin $5.4bn Mikhail Friedman $5.2bn Vladimir Lisin $4.8bn Oleg Deripaska $4.5bn Alexsei Mordashov $4.5 bn Vagit Alekperov $3.9bn Source: Forbes magazine
Also on the list was Mikhail Friedman, head of the Alfa Bank, Vagit Alekperov, head of Lukoil, and the fast-rising Russian entrepreneur in the aluminium sector Oleg Deripaska. Just a dozen years after the collapse of communism, the Russian capital is home to 33 billionaires, according to Forbes, while New York has just 31.
According to Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of Forbes Russia, the behaviour of Russia's richest people is changing.
"Russia's entering a new stage of capitalism, moving away from the shadow economy, moving away from a black-market type of mentality, towards a more civilised, transparent, open form of capitalism."
Anger
However, some businessmen were unhappy to appear on the list, local newspapers reported.
"They [the magazine] couldn't find a worse time and place... Personally the only reaction that I get from discussing personal wealth in our country is high blood pressure," one businessman told the business daily Vedomosti.
"Appearing on such a list is bound to make the entrepreneur a prime target for the law enforcement authorities," another businessman said.
In the spring of 2003 Forbes published a list of 100 richest people in China, which, reportedly, led to some of them being arrested.
Roman Abramovich, David Davidovich, Andrei Gorodilov and Valery Oif who made their fortunes at Sibneft oil company are furious at being named, Vedomosti continued.
"The rating has no connection with reality, the numbers are wildly speculative, the methodology used by the magazine is clouded in darkness," a Sibneft spokesman told the newspaper.
Story from BBC NEWS: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/3710977.stm[/url]
Published: 2004/05/13 14:30:24 GMT
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2004-07-10 04:11 | User Profile
Hello! I'm new here. picture Putin with a black cape, side curlyhair, long black hat. lol. Anyway, such country that pruduce millionairs faster than minimun wage rise, is corrupt to the bone.