Paul Klebnikov
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| Born |
June 3, 1963 New York, USA |
| Died | July 9, 2004 (aged 41) Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater |
St. Bernard's School, Phillips Exeter Academy (1978), University of California, Berkeley, (BA) London School of Economics (PhD) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Organization | Forbes |
| Known for | 2004 murder |
| Spouse(s) | Helen "Musa" Train |
| Children | Alexander, Gregory, and Sophia |
Paul Klebnikov (June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist and historian of Russian history. He worked for Forbes magazine for more than 10 years and at the time of his death was chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes. His murder in Moscow in 2004 was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia. Three Chechens accused of taking part in the murder were acquitted. Though the murder appeared to be the work of assassins for hire, as of 2014, the organizers of the murder had yet to be identified.
Paul Klebnikov was born in New York to a family of Russian émigrés with a long military and political tradition: his great-great-great-grandfather Ivan Puschin participated in the Decembrist revolt in 1825 and was exiled to Siberia, and his great-grandfather, an admiral in the White Russian fleet, was assassinated by Bolsheviks. As a child, he was known as a daredevil including swimming during hurricanes. He attended St. Bernard's School and Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in political science in 1984. He then enrolled in the Officer Candidates School of the US Marine Corps as a way to test himself, but upon completing the course, declined to take the offered commission.
Instead, he pursued a PhD at the London School of Economics, where he would go on to win the Leonard Schapiro Prize "for excellence in Russian studies". Klebnikov wrote his doctoral thesis on Pyotr Stolypin, the reformist Tsarist prime minister. From 1987–88, he lectured at the Institute of European Studies in London.
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