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Grave of Artyom Borovik
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Grave of Artyom Borovik at Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Borovik (September 13, 1960March 9, 2000) was a prominent Russian journalist and media magnate. Borovik was a pioneer of investigative journalism in the Soviet Union during the beginning of glasnost. He worked for the American CBS program 60 Minutes during the 1990s, and began publishing his own monthly investigative newspaper Top Secret, which grew into a mass-media company involved in book publishing and television production. Borovik died in a Yak-40 aircraft crash minutes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo Airport on the way to Kiev. All 9 people aboard were killed.