Editor shot dead in Moscow street

Published: 11 July 2004 y., Sunday
The editor of the 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 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. Alexander Gordeyev, the editor of Russia's Newsweek magazine, which shares the same building as Forbes, rushed to Mr Klebnikov's side after the shooting. "I asked Paul several times why he thought this had happened," Russia's Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. "Paul said he didn't know. He told me several times nothing suspicious had happened to him," Mr Gordeyev said. Mr Klebnikov died a short time later.
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