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Forbes journalist murdered in Moscow

Paul Khlebnikov - Murdered in Moscow
Paul Khlebnikov - Murdered in Moscow

A prominent Russian journalist, who was a critic of the country's wealthy businessmen, has been murdered in Moscow.

Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of the financial magazine Forbes, was shot four times on a street near his office.

The Russian edition of the American journal, which spotlights powerful celebrities, was launched earlier this year.

It published a list of the country's wealthiest people and claimed that Moscow had more billionaires than any other city in the world.

Mr Khlebnikov, who was 41, was also the author of a book that questioned the honesty of an exiled Russian billionaire, Boris Berezovsky.