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...case. The people who really did it have friends at the top." Two weeks after Klebnikov was gunned down near his office, the investigation is making no apparent progress, and Forbes Russia wants to move on. "We are trying to stop the media circus," says the magazine's publisher, Leonid Bershidsky. The next issue of the business magazine - the Russian edition of U.S.-based Forbes, which Klebnikov launched just three months ago - is set to appear on time next week, but will carry little or no coverage of the affair, Bershidsky says. But he's modestly optimistic that the killing...
Getting The Message If the Russian media still needed a signal on how it would fare during President Vladimir Putin's second term, it came in loud and clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov...
...LEONID NEVZLIN, a major shareholder in Yukos, offering to swap his stake in the Russian oil giant in return for the release of former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky
...supports the Geneva accord, this would create a precedent: self-appointed group can negotiate international agreements without being elected. This is a very dangerous precedent, and the U.S. should not play such games. Leonid Mischnaewski Germany...
...that the production has no good qualities. The set, designed by Sergey Barkhin, is too busy but is creatively employed; a single piece of scenery, such as a large gray drop cloth, variously becomes a bed sheet, a snowbank and hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic energy is not enough...