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Friday, July 16, 2004. Page 2. Streletsky: Klebnikov Book Was on Listyev By Catherine Belton Staff Writer Paul Klebnikov, the American journalist who was shot dead in Moscow, was starting to work on a new investigation into the 1995 murder of television director Vladimir Listyev, an event he earlier linked to Boris Berezovsky in a controversial article for Forbes magazine, his Russian publisher said Thursday. He was beginning to collect material about Listyev's killing, said Valery Streletsky, the publisher, who previously served as a deputy to President Boris Yeltsin's chief bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov, a longtime Berezovsky foe. Only a very small circle of people knew about this. Klebnikov, a senior editor at Forbes who this year launched the magazine's Russian-language edition as its editor, became well-known for his investigative reports on the shadowy intersection between business, politics and crime with his 1996 profile in Forbes magazine on Berezovsky, the former Kremlin kingmaker now in exile in London. The article, which immediately raised Berezovsky's ire, called him a powerful gangland boss and accused him of being behind the killing of Listyev, a well-respected former talk show host whose new job as general director of the ORT television network ended abruptly with his murder shortly after the channel was privatized. (snip) Berezovsky said he was at a loss to say who might have been behind Klebnikov's killing. But he called him a dishonest journalist whose way of working could have easily made him enemies. Somebody clearly did not like the way he operated and decided to sort it out with him, Russian-style, not through the English courts like I did, he said. He was unavailable for further comment late Thursday. (snip) Streletsky, who said he last spoke to Klebnikov early last week, said Berezovsky's comments were total lies and called him a sick person. http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/07/16/010.html __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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I notice BTW that the Western press is already using the murder of Klebnikov as a means of attacking the evil press-crushing Putin -- even though K. was pro-Putin and was almost certainly killed by somebody connected with big business, not the Kremlin. Gee, one might think they had an agenda or something. Have ANY Western journalists been killed by the Russian government they keep attacking for supposedly assaulting their profession? (Question is rhetorical.) No, the one guy that gets offed is the anti-oligarch pro-Kremlin guy. Kinda makes you think. From the Russian newspaper Izvestia: Izvestia July 13, 2004 PAVEL KHLEBNIKOV'S LAST INTERVIEW Author: Tatiana Vitebskaya [from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html] [Russian Forbes Chief Editor Pavel Khlebnikov gave this interview seven hours before his death.] Question: You are author of The Kremlin's Godfather [a book about Boris Berezovsky - Izvestia]. Do you think Berezovsky was to be blamed for everything indeed? Has anything changed in Russia? Pavel Khlebnikov: Russia is at a crossroads now. Sure, oligarchs' clout with the federal authorities is not what it used to be, but monopolies survived all the same. It is their very existence that prevents appearance of free market economy without which any economic development is impossible. Question: But something must have happened since the 1990's. Pavel Khlebnikov: Not that much, if you ask me. Like before, just a few men control a substantial part of economy. Like before, these men wield influence with the state policy. The state is supposed to establish a parity among interests of various social strata, but major businesses have much better lobbyist capacities nowadays than, say, the military or retirees. Question: But this is what Putin has been saying - that oligarchs should be put to an equal distance from decision-making centers... Pavel Khlebnikov: But it has never happened in real life! Compare Sibneft and YUKOS. Sibneft is much worse than YUKOS in all formal and informal charges pressed against YUKOS - tax debts, lack of patriotism, political interests... And yet, Sibneft is fine and dandy, its owners have patrons in the Kremlin, while YUKOS is being taken apart. Question: When was it that one of the oligarchs made a mistake (Khodorkovsky) while the other (Abramovich) behaved in a correct manner? Pavel Khlebnikov: I'd say that one of them is a presidential buddy, that's all. Question: And the other? Pavel Khlebnikov: And the other is just an independent man. I do not rule out the possibility that the prosecutor's office was quite within its rights to press charges against YUKOS and against Khodorkovsky personally. What I'm talking about is why is the law applied so stiffly against one oligarch and is not applied at all against another, the one who broke the law and went against public morale in an even worse manner? Question: And yet, representatives of major businesses are different now from what they were like in Berezovsky'e era. Pavel Khlebnikov: That's the truth. This is one of Putin's accomplishments. A lot of business tycoons improved their behavior indeed. They pay taxes, invest in domestic projects, participate in charity campaigns. They are aware of their responsibilities now. Question: These days, they fear the president they used to control once. Pavel Khlebnikov: That's great. That they fear, I mean. Restoration of respect the state commands in society and major businesses is to be welcomed. Unfortunately, the state is currently bullying its way into another extreme. It is meddling in absolutely everything it thinks should be meddled in. All too soon, we may begin talking of another danger. Instead of being posed by oligarchs, is will be posed by the bureaucratic machinery applying the law as it sees fit. Question: Perhaps, we just do not see the new oligarchs who run the country? After all, Berezovsky boasted of the clout he wielded with the Kremlin. Can it be that new oligarchs know better than that and do not advertise their influence? Pavel Khlebnikov: Yes, Berezovsky was boastful in this respect, and this was his major mistake. If they wanted to retain their influence, major capitals should have been more diplomatic. All the same, I disagree with the assumption that there are some oligarchs in the country nowadays that run the president the way they or their predecessors did in the middle of the 1990's. Sure, there are some wealthy men who are quite close to the corridors of power and who enjoy certain preferences and privileges. But they do not control the president. They are merely buddies. Question: Who do you think belongs to this circle? Pavel Khlebnikov: Heads of the companies like Gazprom, LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Severstal. They belong to the inner circle of buddies. There is the second echelon of friendly business structures as well. They are smaller
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The Chechen resistance movement is an outgrowth of the Chechen Mafia. Nukhayev is a former mobster who has been in and out of prison since the 1970s. The Mafia and the oligarchs are not exactly unacquainted. Read Klebnikov's book on Berezovsky (Godfather of the Kremlin)! It's all in there. --- Michael was just asking how the Russian oligarchs would go about making use of Chechen freedom fighters; my point was only that, in general, there is a surprisingly efficient global community of violent men and no particular instance of thugs of two kinds working together ought to necessarily be regarded as surprising. The Korea-Birmingham(UK) connection was the subject of an episode of Panorama a couple of weeks ago, which is why it stuck in my mind. NB that the Official IRA is not the same thing as the Provisional IRA which put the bombs in pubs (and neither is the same as the Real IRA which is the only currently active nationalist terrorist group), and that the Officials have been basically dormant since the 1980s. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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I would guess it was probably someone who got pissed off at having their hidden income reported in Forbes' 100 Richest in Russia list. Or it could be someone in the Chechen Mafia angry at his depiction of Nukhayev. Or a combination therefof. Who knows? This is really, really sad. Klebnikov was a great journalist. --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NPR also blames it on the oligarchs. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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BTW the oligarchs and the Chechen Mafia are not mutually exclusive. Berezovsky's links to the Chechen militants are well-known. In fact, Klebnikov wrote a couple of whole books about it. --- Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess it was probably someone who got pissed off at having their hidden income reported in Forbes' 100 Richest in Russia list. Or it could be someone in the Chechen Mafia angry at his depiction of Nukhayev. Or a combination therefof. Who knows? This is really, really sad. Klebnikov was a great journalist. --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NPR also blames it on the oligarchs. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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How did they use each other? On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:06:28AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: BTW the oligarchs and the Chechen Mafia are not mutually exclusive. Berezovsky's links to the Chechen militants are well-known. In fact, Klebnikov wrote a couple of whole books about it. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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It's a useful corollorary (?) of social network theory that almost all bad lads are joined up together, via a smallish number of connected node individuals. The North Korean government's forged $100 bills ended up financing the ecstasy trade in Birmingham, via the Libyans, the mafiya and the Official (Maoist) IRA. dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: 11 July 2004 16:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Klebnikov How did they use each other? On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:06:28AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: BTW the oligarchs and the Chechen Mafia are not mutually exclusive. Berezovsky's links to the Chechen militants are well-known. In fact, Klebnikov wrote a couple of whole books about it. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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In a message dated 7/11/2004 1:20:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a useful corollorary (?) of social network theory that almost all badlads are joined up together, via a smallish number of "connected node"individuals. The North Korean government's forged $100 bills ended up financing the ecstasy trade in Birmingham, via the Libyans, the mafiya and the Official (Maoist) IRA.dd Comment Explain the context of "bad" and why one would link the government of North Korea with the Mafia . . . although I have no moral gripe with counterfeit money. It is my understanding the biggest counterfeiter of currency is the world today is the US government. Is not fiat money counterfeit by definition? Why is this important or rather what is the meaning? I have no principle opposition to counterfeiting . . . only bourgeois property. Do you mean Birmingham in Alabama or England? Just curious. Does it follow that without the North Korea government there would be no ecstasy trade in Birmingham? If not . . . what is the point of this? Dope as consumption always drives private accumulation of capital . . . going back to the evolution of spices and sugar as items of trade. Molasses . . . liquor and opium came later . . . but its all dope . . . converted into a "need" diving private accumulation. Is this a moral position on how the IRA raises money? Is it better to rob banks . . . cheat the tax man . . . or put a few products in ones purse while shopping? I am all ears. Melvin P.
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Michael was just asking how the Russian oligarchs would go about making use of Chechen freedom fighters; my point was only that, in general, there is a surprisingly efficient global community of violent men and no particular instance of thugs of two kinds working together ought to necessarilybe regarded as surprising. The Korea-Birmingham(UK) connection was the subject of an episode of Panorama a couple of weeks ago, which is why it stuck in my mind. NB that the "Official" IRA is not the same thing as the "Provisional" IRA which put the bombs in pubs (and neither is the same as the "Real IRA" which is the only currently active nationalist terrorist group), and that the Officials have been basically dormant since the 1980s. dd -Original Message-From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 11 July 2004 20:13To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Klebnikov In a message dated 7/11/2004 1:20:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a useful corollorary (?) of social network theory that almost all badlads are joined up together, via a smallish number of "connected node"individuals. The North Korean government's forged $100 bills ended up financing the ecstasy trade in Birmingham, via the Libyans, the mafiya and the Official (Maoist) IRA.dd Comment Explain the context of "bad" and why one would link the government of North Korea with the Mafia . . . although I have no moral gripe with counterfeit money. It is my understanding the biggest counterfeiter of currency is the world today is the US government. Is not fiat money counterfeit by definition? Why is this important or rather what is the meaning? I have no principle opposition to counterfeiting . . . only bourgeois property. Do you mean Birmingham in Alabama or England? Just curious. Does it follow that without the North Korea government there would be no ecstasy trade in Birmingham? If not . . . what is the point of this? Dope as consumption always drives private accumulation of capital . . . going back to the evolution of spices and sugar as items of trade. Molasses . . . liquor and opium came later . . . but its all dope . . . converted into a "need" diving private accumulation. Is this a moral position on how the IRA raises money? Is it better to rob banks . . . cheat the tax man . . . or put a few products in ones purse while shopping? I am all ears. Melvin P.
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In a message dated 7/11/2004 3:13:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cynical jaded New Yorker wants to know: When you lend someone counterfeit money, are you still doing that person a good turn? Should expect repayment, with interest? In real or counterfeit money? Comment Actually a friend of mine . . . a comrade . . . did a 5 to 10 year bit in Mississippi for counterfit 20s in the late mid 1980s. JHe got caught up in the "New African thing" and the "Black Liberation Army" and literally named his first born male SinQ. I was like . . . "damn brother . . . don't you think you carrying this thing a little to far?" Counterfeitwas never my thing as such and I figured if I could not win at the poker table . . . or . . . 7 days 12 hours was enough for me. Then the first wife worked at the old Cadillac plant on Michigan . . . not the Fisher plant on Fort Street. :-) Counterfeit and its exchange rates depends on what is being exchanged. And yes you can get interest on it in all the secondary markets. Counterfeit money is no different from when a section of Soviet society - the secondary economy, was using Marlboros as a medium of exchange. The only objection to counterfeit in the world exchange markets is the governments and banks that prevents its conversion. You can circulate counterfeit within a certain market framework forever and it develops its own logic. Is not the real question the counterfeit nature of fiat money versus species money? I read some book twenty years ago . . . that I honestly forget . . . that placed quarters as the most counterfeit money. The only problem anyone in society has with counterfeit money is the point at which its conversion is blocked. No one really cares. Ok . . . I stop by your house and we go get some beers and watch the Yankees on the big screen. I set the bar up a couple of times and lose the bet and set the bar up again paying with good counterfeit . . . that cannot be detected with a brown colored pen. (I did work in a Casino and they have tough procedures. Only governments detect good counterfeit produced by other governments with similar technology). The barkeep cannot detect the counterfeit and it completes a transaction. This counterfiet is passed - unknowing to the barkeep, as change for his customers. Really we talking about the value relationship. I cannot think of the book I read years ago but it had a story about a guy in the late 1890 who literally painted 50 dollar bills. When he got busted . . . the judge let him off over a dispute about who could issue legal tender. I hate it when I forget what I remember. Melvin P.
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Cynical jaded New Yorker wants to know: When you lend someone counterfeit money, are you still doing that person a good turn? Should expect repayment, with interest? In real or counterfeit money? - Original Message - From: Daniel Davies To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Klebnikov Michael was just asking how the Russian oligarchs would go about making use of Chechen freedom fighters; my point was only that, in general, there is a surprisingly efficient global community of violent men and no particular instance of thugs of two kinds working together ought to necessarilybe regarded as surprising. The Korea-Birmingham(UK) connection was the subject of an episode of Panorama a couple of weeks ago, which is why it stuck in my mind. NB that the "Official" IRA is not the same thing as the "Provisional" IRA which put the bombs in pubs (and neither is the same as the "Real IRA" which is the only currently active nationalist terrorist group), and that the Officials have been basically dormant since the 1980s. dd -Original Message-From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 11 July 2004 20:13To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Klebnikov In a message dated 7/11/2004 1:20:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a useful corollorary (?) of social network theory that almost all badlads are joined up together, via a smallish number of "connected node"individuals. The North Korean government's forged $100 bills ended up financing the ecstasy trade in Birmingham, via the Libyans, the mafiya and the Official (Maoist) IRA.dd Comment Explain the context of "bad" and why one would link the government of North Korea with the Mafia . . . although I have no moral gripe with counterfeit money. It is my understanding the biggest counterfeiter of currency is the world today is the US government. Is not fiat money counterfeit by definition? Why is this important or rather what is the meaning? I have no principle opposition to counterfeiting . . . only bourgeois property. Do you mean Birmingham in Alabama or England? Just curious. Does it follow that without the North Korea government there would be no ecstasy trade in Birmingham? If not . . . what is the point of this? Dope as consumption always drives private accumulation of capital . . . going back to the evolution of spices and sugar as items of trade. Molasses . . . liquor and opium came later . . . but its all dope . . . converted into a "need" diving private accumulation. Is this a moral position on how the IRA raises money? Is it better to rob banks . . . cheat the tax man . . . or put a few products in ones purse while shopping? I am all ears. Melvin P.
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JK Galbraith referred to it as "the bezzle" -- the increment to national wealth during that period when the conman knows he has got the mark's money, but the mark is as yet not aware that he has been dispossessed of it ... -Original Message-From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 11 July 2004 22:37To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Klebnikov In a message dated 7/11/2004 3:13:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cynical jaded New Yorker wants to know: When you lend someone counterfeit money, are you still doing that person a good turn? Should expect repayment, with interest? In real or counterfeit money? Comment Actually a friend of mine . . . a comrade . . . did a 5 to 10 year bit in Mississippi for counterfit 20s in the late mid 1980s. JHe got caught up in the "New African thing" and the "Black Liberation Army" and literally named his first born male SinQ. I was like . . . "damn brother . . . don't you think you carrying this thing a little to far?" Counterfeitwas never my thing as such and I figured if I could not win at the poker table . . . or . . . 7 days 12 hours was enough for me. Then the first wife worked at the old Cadillac plant on Michigan . . . not the Fisher plant on Fort Street. :-) Counterfeit and its exchange rates depends on what is being exchanged. And yes you can get interest on it in all the secondary markets. Counterfeit money is no different from when a section of Soviet society - the secondary economy, was using Marlboros as a medium of exchange. The only objection to counterfeit in the world exchange markets is the governments and banks that prevents its conversion. You can circulate counterfeit within a certain market framework forever and it develops its own logic. Is not the real question the counterfeit nature of fiat money versus species money? I read some book twenty years ago . . . that I honestly forget . . . that placed quarters as the most counterfeit money. The only problem anyone in society has with counterfeit money is the point at which its conversion is blocked. No one really cares. Ok . . . I stop by your house and we go get some beers and watch the Yankees on the big screen. I set the bar up a couple of times and lose the bet and set the bar up again paying with good counterfeit . . . that cannot be detected with a brown colored pen. (I did work in a Casino and they have tough procedures. Only governments detect good counterfeit produced by other governments with similar technology). The barkeep cannot detect the counterfeit and it completes a transaction. This counterfiet is passed - unknowing to the barkeep, as change for his customers. Really we talking about the value relationship. I cannot think of the book I read years ago but it had a story about a guy in the late 1890 who literally painted 50 dollar bills. When he got busted . . . the judge let him off over a dispute about who could issue legal tender. I hate it when I forget what I remember. Melvin P.
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In a message dated 7/11/2004 5:02:03 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Galbraith referred to it as "the bezzle" -- the increment to national wealth during that period when the conman knows he has got the mark's money, but the mark is as yet not aware that he has been dispossessed of it ... Comment Hahahahahahahahah hahahahah hahahahahah hahahahah. One born everyday. I am glad I was not born today. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Whatever the market will bear . . . bear. There was a period in the early 1980s when the government barred IBM from selling a copying machine it put on the market because of its high quality reproduction capacity and color quality that allowed it to copy and reproduced money at a scale that the average merchant could not detect. I sued to follow these things coming up in the propaganda apparatus and all. Counterfeit is huge. Counterfeit insurance certificates was a boom industry when the first wave of "no fault insurance laws" were passed in the late 1970s. Then there are the counterfeit CDs and DVDs . . . most of which are not small producers but coming out of the back doors of the large manufacturers. I had a guy on the street offer me a copy of "I-Robot" last week for 10 bucks. If I had come counterfeit I would have paid for it on the spot.:-) Enough . . .hahahahahahahahhahahaha. The bourgeoisie is all screwed up . . .man . . . and cannot get out of this one alive. Melvin P. Melvin P.
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Chris Doss wrote: Paul Klebnikov, who was one of the only writers on Russia in the English language worth reading, has just been murdered, very possibly by a lovable Chechen gangster, whoops I meant to say freedom-fighter. I fully expect some people to celebrate. He was the editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, after all. http://top.rbc.ru/index.shtml?/news/incidents/2004/07/10/10035924_bod.shtml(not useful if you don't read Russian.) If you read the usually reliable Independent, you'd get the impression that it was the Russian mafia who killed him. The Independent (London) July 10, 2004, Saturday EDITOR WHO UNMASKED SUPER-RICH OF RUSSIA IS SHOT DEAD IN MOSCOW ANDREW OSBORN IN MOSCOW The Russian edition of Forbes' magazine, listed the country's super-rich, making the editor, Paul Klebnikov, an unpopular and reviled character in some circles THE MAN who told the world exactly how wealthy Russia's super- rich are and exactly what oligarchs spend their millions on has been shot dead in Moscow in a murder that has all the hallmarks of a contract killing. Pavel Klebnikov, the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot at point- blank range in a suburb of northern Moscow near the city's botanical gardens at around 10pm last night. He died later in an ambulance having taken four bullets in the chest. Klebnikov, 41, a US citizen born in New York, was descended from White Russian emigres who fled the country when Communists seized power. He had made powerful enemies writing a damning book about Boris Berezovsky, the tycoon who has exiled himself in the UK, and another about a Chechen rebel field commander called Khoj-Akhmed Nukaev. Klebnikov alleged that Mr Berezovsky, with $ 620m (pounds 330m) to his name, was involved in the criminal underworld and became embroiled in a protracted court case that ended in an out-of-court settlement and an apology from Forbes. Some said that his book about Mr Berezovsky - Godfather of the Kremlin; The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism - was anti-Semitic in tone and overly critical of the tycoon at the expense of other key characters such as Russia's former president Boris Yeltsin. In April of this year, Klebnikov ruffled feathers among Russia's super- rich when he launched the first Russian language edition of Forbes magazine, the so-called capitalist's handbook. A month later he put even more noses out of joint when the magazine published a detailed list of Russia's 100 wealthiest people, detailing exactly what assets they held and how they had made their money. Russia's elite was unimpressed. One businessman who preferred not to be named told daily Vedemosti that he was furious with Klebnikov. They couldn't have published this list at a worst place at a worse time, he told the newspaper. In our country, any discussion of personal wealth results in nothing but an increase in my blood pressure. Unnamed sources accused Klebnikov and his colleagues of vastly over-estimating their wealth and claimed that Forbes' exercise was unseemly. Some businessmen were irritated that their names were linked by association with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man and number one on Forbes' list. They said the fact that Mr Khodorkovsky was in jail on fraud and embezzlement charges might reflect badly on them. Others took exception to the fact that Klebnikov's list included at least nine Jews and worried that they would be targeted by anti-Semites. Many of Russia's super-rich prefer to keep information about their real worth secret, not least to avoid the clutches of Russia's increasingly conscientious tax police. But Klebnikov, it seems, has now paid the ultimate price for ignoring these warnings. Russia is sick with envy ... Russia will (only) flourish when each Russian citizen learns to value his neighbour's success, Klebnikov wrote. An ardent pro-capitalist, he believed that the new Russia had a bright future ahead. Today Russia is on the threshold of a new era, he wrote grandly in Forbes' first Russian edition. I am convinced that we will become the witnesses of a great renaissance in Russian society. Unprecedented opportunities are opening up before the (Russian) business world and new problems at the same time. In a country where many in the media appear to be in the pockets of some of the country's super rich businessmen Klebnikov promised that Forbes would remain steadfastly independent of influence. In an overt nod to the magazine's original founder BC Forbes, he reminded the readers that money wasn't everything and that God, moral values and a sense of citizenship were also important. Klebnikov studied at the University of Berkeley in California and at the London School of Economics where he obtained a Phd in 1991. Police are investigating the killing. -- Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
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NPR also blames it on the oligarchs. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
