RUSSIAN PUBLISHER SHOT DEAD.

A prominent Russian publisher was shot dead yesterday morning as he left his Moscow apartment building together with his bodyguard. Aleksandr Krutik, 29, headed the Drofa publishing house, which produces about 80 percent of all Russian school textbooks. His killing is believed to have been part of struggle over lucrative textbook publishing contracts. (AP, August 28)

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