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Jul 29th 2012, 7:15 pm
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Boston Globe editor Martin Baron had to offer up a mea culpa after it emerged the newspaper’s top front-page story yesterday on ’s reign at Bain Capital failed to acknowledge its central premise already had been reported by two prominent left-leaning media organizations.

In a statement posted on its website yesterday, Baron blamed the editing process: “Pieces of this story were reported by other news organizations. We believe the Globe advanced the story with a more comprehensive and complete look that broke significant news and included additional documents. However, our policy is to give credit to other news organizations for their work. In the editing and shortening process, I have learned, passages giving credit were removed. That was a mistake, and we are now adding appropriate credit back to the online version.”

The Globe story reported Romney was listed as CEO of Bain Capital on federal documents for three years after 1999. Romney has said he left the Boston-based private equity firm in February 1999. His campaign said he remained the owner of Bain through 2002 but was not actively involved in management. The Globe article questioned whether Romney was disengaged from Bain’s sometimes controversial decision-making process. But the wannabe gotcha on the GOP candidate was already out there.

Mother Jones magazine reported last week that Romney “still played a role in Bain investments until at least the end of 1999,” citing Securities and Exchange Commission documents, and that in 2001 he sat on the “management committee” of Bain funds. The political website Talking Points Memo reported Tuesday that in 2000 and 2001 Romney listed his “principal occupation” as “Managing Director of Bain Capital, Inc.”

The Globe initially failed to cite those organizations but later scrambled to give them credit online — after some web “publishing delays.” The broadsheet added this clarification: “This story has been updated to note previous reporting by the publications Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo on Romney’s involvement with Bain.”

U.S. expressly target of new Russian law


MOSCOW — Russia’s parliament adopted a law on Friday imposing stringent new requirements on election monitors, human rights groups and other politically active organizations that receive foreign money.

The law, which was passed 374 to 3 by the Duma, or lower house, on the last day before a parliamentary recess, requires the groups to register as foreign agents and submit to exhaustive audits. The upper house is expected to approve it.

Action against nongovernmental organizations has been widely expected since November, when Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, gave a nationally televised address describing such activists as traitors and excoriating the United States — which provides extensive support to democracy-building groups here — without quite naming it.

“They would do better to use that money to redeem their national debt and stop pursuing their costly and ineffective foreign policy,” Putin said, referring to the United States.

Russia has received more than $2.6 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development since 1992, allocated for social and economic development.

The agency has proposed spending about $52 million here during 2013, the bulk of it — nearly $32 million — going to democracy and human rights organizations. But about $9 million is intended for peace and security programs and $11 million for health and environmental projects. Those programs, overseen by Russian government agencies or with a government stake, were exempted from the new law in an amendment ordered this week by Putin, who is now president of Russia.

Russian activists and liberal leaders have argued strenuously against the law, to no avail. So have U.N. officials and the United States.

This week, Patrick Ventrell, a State Department spokesman http://linsuoopp.woiba.com/, said the United States had conveyed “deep concern” to Russia after the Duma approved the first reading of the bill July 6. “We believe that people everywhere should enjoy the same fundamental freedoms and universal human rights,” he said.

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Putin employed harsh anti-U.S. rhetoric during his campaign for the presidency, and he has returned sporadically to that theme since his inauguration in May.

As opposition to his 12-year rule as president and prime minister has grown, Putin and his government have been clamping down on dissent and those who enable it. On Friday, the Duma also passed a law, 238 to 91, making slander a criminal offense and strengthening the penalties for it.

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