09 July 2004
Pavel Khlebnikov
Shooting
As Mr. Klebnikov left his office Friday night and headed toward a nearby metro station, a black Lada sedan approached.
Quickly closing the distance, the car's windows were rolled down and one, perhaps two, guns emerged. Mr. Klebnikov was shot four times and died of chest wounds on the way to the hospital. It was the kind of contract killing Paul Klebnikov had written about many times while covering Moscow's often nasty convergence of politics, commerce and crime. But this time, the Forbes Russia editor-in-chief was the victim.
