"Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise To Power" Controversy
In September 2009 GQ's US issue included a story by Scott Anderson about his interviews with Mikhail Trepashkin on his investigations of the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. David Folkenflik reported for NPR on September 4 that Conde Nast management ordered executives and editors that the US issue was not to be distributed in Russia, nor to be shown to "Russian government officials, journalists or advertisers". The story was not to be on GQ's website, not to be published in Conde Nast's foreign magazines, and not to be publicized. Anderson was asked not to syndicate the story "to any publications that appear in Russia". The article is entitled "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" in the US magazine, although an earlier internal email from a Conde Nast lawyer referred to it as "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power". It was in the "backstory" section. In 24 hours bloggers published the Russian translation and original English text on the Web.
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