Re: Klebnikov

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

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



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