High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Klebnikov (June 3, 1963 July 9, 2004) was an American journalist of Russian descent. His murder in Moscow was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia. Paul Klebnikov was born in New York to a family of Russian émigrés with a long military and political tradition; his great grandfather was an admiral in the White Russian fleet who was assassinated by Bolsheviks, and his great-great-great-grandfather Ivan Pouschine participated in the Decembrist revolt in 1825. Klebnikov attended St. Bernard's School and the Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. He wrote a doctoral thesis at the London School of Economics on Pyotr Stolypin, the reformist Tsarist prime minister.