List of journalists killed in Russia

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This is list of journalists who have been recently killed in Russia, compiled by Russian-based Glasnost Defence Foundation. See also the database by the Committee to Protect Journalists^[1] with 13 journalists murdered for their professional activity ^[2].

Contents 1 Main list 1.1 2007 1.2 2006 1.3 2005 1.4 2004 1.5 2003 1.6 2002 1.7 2001 1.8 2000 1.9 1999 2 Journalists who reported on the conflict in Chechnya 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Main list

[edit] 2007

• Vadim Kuznetsov, editor-in-chief of journal "World and home. Saint Petersburg", killed in Saint Petersburg
• Konstantin Brovko, journalist of TV company "Gubernia" (Russian: "Губерния"), killed in Khabarovsk
• Ivan Safronov, Military columninst of newspaper "Kommersant". Killed in Moscow on March 2 - cause of death disputed.

More detail: ^[3]

[edit] 2006

• Vaghif Kochetkov, newspaper Trud (Labor), killed in Tula;
• Ilya Zimin, he worked for NTV Russia television channel, killed in Moscow;
• Vyacheslav Akatov, special reporter, "Business Moscow" TV show, killed in Moscow Region;
• Anton Kretenchuk, cameraman, 38th TV Channel, killed in Rostov-on-Don;
• Yevgeny Gerasimenko, newspaper "Saratovsky Rasklad", Saratov;
• Vlad Kidanov, freelance journalist, Cheboksary;
• Alexander Petrov, editor-in-chief, "Right for Choice" magazine, killed near Omsk - in Altai Republic;
• Vyacheslav Plotnikov, reporter, 41st TV Channel, Voronezh;
• Anna Politkovskaya, observer, newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. ^[4][5][6].

More detail: ^[7]

[edit] 2005

• Pavel Makeyev, reporter for TNT-Pulse Company, Rostov-on-Don;
• Magomedzaghid Varisov, Makhachkala;
• Alexander Pitersky, Baltika Radio reporter, Saint Petersburg;
• Vladimir Pashutin, newspaper Smolensky Literator, Smolensk;
• Tamirlan Kazikhanov, press service head, Anti-Terrorist Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs's Main Department for the Southern Federal District, Nalchik;
• Kira Lezhneva, reporter, newspaper "Kamensky Worker", Sverdlovsk Region.

More detail: ^[8]

[edit] 2004

• Yefim Sukhanov, ATK-Media, Archangelsk;
• Farit Urazbayev, cameraman, Vladivostok TV/Radio Company, city of Vladivostok;
• Adlan Khassanov, Reuters reporter, killed in Grozny;
• Shangysh Mondush, correspondent for newspaper Khemchiktin Syldyzy, Tuva Republic;
• Paul Khlebnikov, editor of Russian version of Forbes magazine, Moscow;
• Payl Peloyan, editor of Armyansky Pereulok magazine, Moscow;
• Zoya Ivanova, BGTRK broadcaster, Republic of Buryatia;
• Vladimir Pritchin, editor-in-chief of North Baikal TV/Radio Company, Republic of Buryatia;
• Ian Travinsky, Saint Petersburg, killed in Irkutsk;

More detail: ^[9]

[edit] 2003

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[edit] 2002

• Natalia Skryl, the Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog town;
• Konstantin Pogodin, the Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod city;
• Valeri Batuev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow;
• Sergei Kalinovski, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Smolensk;
• Vitali Sakhn-Val'da, photojournalist, Kursk town;
• Leonid Shevchenko, the Pervoye Chteniye newspaper, Volgograd;
• Valeri Ivanov, the chief editor for the Tol'yattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, the Samara region;
• Sergei Zhabin,the press service of the governor of the Moscow region;
• Nikolai Vasiliev, Cheboksary city, Chuvashia;
• Leonid Kuznetsov, the Mescherskaya Nov' newspaper, the Ryazan region;
• Paavo Voutilainen, a former main editor of the Kareliya magazine, Kareliya;
• Scott Service Roderig John, the Frontline-TV TV Company, from Great Britain.
• Alexandr Plotnikov, the Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen city;
• Oleg Sedinko, the founder of the Novaya Volna TV and Radio Company, Vladivostok city;
• Nikolai Razmolodin, the general director of the Europroject TV and Radio Company, Ulyanovsk town;
• Igor Salikov, the chief of the Department of information safety of the Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper in Penza;
• Leonid Plotnikov, the publishing house "Periodicals of the Mari-El", Yoshkar-Ola.

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[edit] 2001

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[edit] 2000

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[edit] 1999

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[edit] Journalists who reported on the conflict in Chechnya

• Cynthia Elbaum. On assignment for Time magazine, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid in 1994.
• Vladimir Zhitarenko, a veteran military correspondent for the Russian armed forces daily Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), was hit by two sniper bullets outside the town of Tolstoy-Yurt, near the Chechen capital of Grozny on December 31, 1994.
• Nina Yefimova, a reporter for local newspaper "Revival" was abducted from her apartment and killed together with her mother. Journalists in Grozny and Moscow believe that her murder was related to stories she had published on crime in Chechnya.
• Jochen Piest. On January 10, 1995, Piest was killed in a suicide attack by a Chechen rebel against a Russian mine-clearing unit in the village of Chervlyonna, about 24 kilometers northeast of the Chechen capital, Grozny. The rebel was firing his submachine gun as he drove a small diesel locomotive at high speed toward a Russian troop train parked on the track. Piest was fatally hit by three bullets. Rossiskaya Gazeta correspondent Vladimir Sorokin was wounded in the attack. The gunman died when the locomotive collided with the military train.
• Farkhad Kerimov. Farkhad Kerimov was murdered on May 22nd 1995 while filming for Associated Press on the rebel side of Chechnya. No motive has ever been established for the killing.
• Natalya Alyakina. Natalya Alyakina, a free-lance correspondent for German news outlets, was shot dead in June by a soldier after clearing a Russian checkpoint near the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk.
• Shamkhan Kagirov. Kagirov, a reporter for the Moscow daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta and the local paper Vozrozheniye, was shot and killed in an ambush in Chechnya. Kagirov and three local police officers were traveling in a car near Grozny when they were attacked. The three officers were also killed.
• Viktor Pimenov. In March 11, 1996, he was fatally shot in the back by a sniper positioned on the roof of a 16-story building in Grozny, the Chechen capital. Pimenov had been filming the devastation caused by the March 6-9 rebel raid on the city.
• Nadezhda Chaikova. On March 20, 1996, Chaikova disappeared while on assignment. Her body was found buried in the Chechen village of Geikhi on April 11, blindfolded and bearing signs of beatings. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
• Supian Ependiyev. On the evening of October 27, 1999, several short-range ballistic missile hit a crowded outdoor market in central Grozny, killing or wounding hundreds of people. About an hour after the attack, Ependiyev went to the scene to cover the carnage for his paper. As he was leaving the site, a new round of rockets fell about 200 meters from the bazaar. Ependiyev suffered severe shrapnel wounds and died in a Grozny hospital the next morning. According to other sources, he died two days later.
• Ramzan Mezhidov. The journalists were covering a refugee convoy en route, along the Baku-Rostov highway, from Grozny to Nazran in neighboring Ingushetia. As the convoy approached the Chechen town of Shaami Yurt, a Russian fighter bomber fired several rockets from the air, hitting a busload of refugees. Despite warnings from colleagues traveling with them, Mezhidov and Gigayev left their vehicle to film the carnage. As they approached the bus, another Russian rocket hit a nearby truck, fatally wounding both journalists.
• Vladimir Yatsina, a correspondent for ITAR-TASS was kidnapped and killed by a group of Wahhabis in Chechnya on July 19, 1999. ^[15][16]
• Aleksandr Yefremov. A photojournalist of the western Siberian newspaper Nashe Vremya was killed in Chechnya when rebels blew up a military jeep in which he was riding. On previous assignments, Yefremov had won acclaim for his news photographs from the war-torn region.
• Roddy Scott. On September 26, 2002, Scott was killed in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. Russian soldiers found his body in Ingushetia's Galashki region, near the border with Chechnya, following a bloody battle between Russian forces and a group of Chechen fighters.
• Magomedzagid Varisov, a political scientist and journalist, was shot to death near his home in Makhachkala. He "had received threats, was being followed and had unsuccessfully sought help from the local police" according to Committee to Protect Journalists. On June 29, Kavkazcenter posted a message from the Sharia Jamaat calling Varisov a FSB agent, and saying he was a "mouthpiece of Kremlin propaganda and the Dagestani puppets, one of the active ideologues of Russian infidel power and the fight against establishing Sharia in Dagestan," and stating that he had been "executed."^[17] Sharia Jamaat claimed responsibility for the murder.

[edit] See also

• List of newspapers in Russia
• List of Russian-language television channels

[edit] References