In Russia, Textbook Publishing Involves Red Tape, Piracy -- and Murder

Alexander Krutik was ambushed as he walked out of the elevator next to his apartment. He was shot twice and died in an ambulance en route to the hospital.

Vladimir Veshnyakov was shot several times while getting out of his car near the entrance to his apartment building. His wounds, too, were fatal.

The two murders here, in August 1997 and November 1996, respectively, were linked by the prominent positions of the two men in

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