Editing GQ (section)

=== Russian apartment bombings ===
''GQ''{{'}}s September 2009 U.S. magazine published, in its "backstory" section, an article by [[Scott Anderson (novelist)|Scott Anderson]], "None Dare Call It Conspiracy". Before ''GQ'' published the article, an internal email from a Condé Nast lawyer referred to it as "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power".<ref>{{cite journal| journal=GQ| title=None Dare Call It Conspiracy| author=Anderson, Scott| date=September 2009|page=246}}</ref> The article reported Anderson's investigation of the 1999 [[Russian apartment bombings]], and included interviews with [[Mikhail Trepashkin]] who investigated the bombings while he was a [[colonel]] in Russia's [[Federal Security Service]].

The story, including Trepashkin's own findings, contradicted the Russian Government's official explanation of the bombings and criticized [[Vladimir Putin]], the [[President of Russia]].<ref name="NPR 2009-09-04"/>

Condé Nast's management tried to keep the story out of Russia. It ordered executives and editors not to distribute that issue in Russia or show it to "Russian government officials, journalists or advertisers".<ref name="NPR 2009-09-04"/> Management decided not to publish the story on ''GQ''{{'}}s website or in Condé Nast's foreign magazines, not to publicize the story, and asked Anderson not to syndicate the story "to any publications that appear in Russia".<ref name="NPR 2009-09-04">{{cite episode| url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364| title=Why 'GQ' Doesn't Want Russians To Read Its Story| author=Folkenflik, David| author-link=David Folkenflik| series=[[Morning Edition]]| network=[[NPR]]| date=September 4, 2009| access-date=July 16, 2020| archive-date=September 5, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905201656/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364| url-status=live}}</ref>

The day after the magazine's publication in the United States, bloggers published the original English text and a translation into [[Russian language|Russian]] on the internet.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://gawker.com/5352827/| title=Эй, вы можете прочитать запрещенную статью GQ про Путина здесь| trans-title=Hey, You Can Read the Forbidden GQ Article About Putin Here| author=Snyder, Gabriel| journal=[[Gawker]]| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907043118/http://gawker.com/5352827/| archive-date=September 7, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.ratafia.info/activities/228875|title=None Dare Call It Conspiracy| journal=Ratafia Currant| date=September 4, 2009| access-date=March 23, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324021151/https://www.ratafia.info/activities/228875|archive-date=March 24, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref>