Exit The Exile, pursued by Russian bear

It has survived a 1999 front page demanding that Boris Yeltsin "Die Already" and a cover photo depicting Vladimir Putin in a Hitler-Jugend outfit. But a couple of months into the reign of the supposedly liberal Dmitry Medvedev, it looks like time is finally up for The Exile.

An 'unplanned inspection' of the Moscow-based English-language newspaper and its editorial content two weeks ago has caused its Western investors to flee in terror, said Mark Ames, an American citizen who founded the paper and is still its editor.

"The investors all told me that they love the paper but that they didn't want to be the subject of a government investigation as they