This is not good.
The editor in chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine was found guilty of defamation Wednesday in a dispute over an article about a business run by the wife of the mayor of Moscow.
In a legal interpretation that is likely to further chill journalism in Russia, a city court in Moscow ruled against the editor, Maksim V. Kashulinsky, not for the contents of the article, but for commenting publicly on the controversy surrounding its publication.
Mr. Kashulinsky had said in a radio interview before the article was published that Inteko — a company controlled by Yelena N. Baturina, the wife of the mayor of Moscow, Yuri M. Luzhkov — had tried to block publication of the article, and that in doing so the company had violated Russian law.
Editor of Russian Edition of Forbes Guilty of Defamation [New York Times]
WHAT RUSSIA NEED TO WORRY ABOUT CONTROLLING ARE THEIR NUKES.
Carney – This is an improvement compared with what they did to Paul Khlebnikov, the previous editor of Forbes in Russia. http://www.projectklebnikov.org/aboutpaul.html
Russia needs to worry about increasing her birthrate, and kicking out the Muslims.
Interesting comments, considering none of them have anything to do with the article, nor do either of them carry any support, nor does the article tell the whole story. To the writers, please do your homework before posting opinions rather than fact based information, and offer a little more than a blurp about the current event.
Dea
Listen dipshit, did you see the link I posted? Please tell me you can make the connection between the current article (misfortune to the current editor of Forbes Russia for an article) and the murder of Paul Khlebnikov (also once editor of the same magazine in Russia). Put on your bib, jerky, cause here comes the spoon feed – Russia is a difficult place to edit Forbes magazine. Wouldn’t you agree that’s pretty relevant?