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Ukraine Arrests Russian Wanted in Forbes Editor's Death
« on: November 27, 2017, 01:53:42 am »
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Ukraine Arrests Russian Wanted in Forbes Editor's Death
VOA News

Ukraine officials have arrested a man who is considered a suspect in the 2004 shooting death of Paul Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine.

Ukraine's state Security Service said in a statement Saturday that it had detained a suspect, a Russian man, who was also wanted in other slayings. The man was arrested in Kyiv.

"According to Interpol, the foreigner participated in a series of sponsored murders, in particular that of Forbes' editor-in-chief, the U.S. citizen Paul Khlebnikov," as well as a Chechen government official, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) statement said. It did not explain the different spelling of Klebnikov's name.

Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-arests-russian-wanted-in-forbes-editor-death/4124751.html

Story from about 8 days ago, I had not heard this.

Typical putdown of journalists and opposition politicians, dissidents and others in Russia.