He became chairman of the "New Times" publishing house, which published Vsyo Dlya Vas, Novoye Vremya, and International and Moscow Business Week.

He was the first publisher in Russian of Viktor Suvorov's books Icebreaker,[3] Aquarium, Day-M and others.

[4] The assassin waited in a phone booth, and when Dubov was going to his car in the morning shot him in the back of the head.

Earlier, Dubov had received threats by telephone and by mail.

President Boris Yeltsin closely monitored the case.