Reuters, UK
March 3 2005
Killings of journalists in former Soviet Union
03 Mar 2005 12:42:52 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAKU, March 3 (Reuters) – Popular Azerbaijan opposition journalist
Elmar Huseinov was shot dead late on Wednesday at the entrance to his
home. These are some of the most high-profile killings of other
journalists in the former Soviet Union:
*In March 1995, Vladislav Listyev, a popular TV anchorman and
executive with Russia’s Channel 1 television station, shot dead in
Moscow. His killers have never been found.
*In October 1995, Dmitry Kholodov, reporter with Russia’s Moskovsky
Komsomolets paper, blown up in his Moscow office. He had been
investigating alleged defence ministry corruption.
*In Sept 1998, Tajik opposition figure and professional journalist,
Otakhon Latifi, shot dead leaving his home in the capital Dushanbe.
*In September 2000, Ukrainian Internet journalist Georgiy Gongadze
disappeared. His headless body later found in a wood outside Kiev.
Authorities this week said they had arrested his killers.
*In July 2000, Dmitry Zavadsky, cameraman with Russia’s Channel One,
disappeared in Belarus. His body has never been found.
*In July 2001, television journalist Ihor Alexandrov, who reported on
corruption from the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, bludgeoned to
death.
*In July 2001, Georgy Sanai, anchor on Georgia’s Rustavi 2 television
station, shot in the back of the head. Big protests in Tbilisi
followed the killing.
*In December 2002, chairman of the board of Armenian public
television and radio Tigran Naghdalyan shot dead in Yerevan.
*In October 2003, Alexei Sidorov, editor of campaigning Russian
provincial newspaper Togliatti Review, stabbed to death. His
predecessor was killed about 18 months earlier.
*In July 2004, U.S citizen Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian
edition of Forbes magazine, shot dead outside his Moscow office.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaux in Moscow, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Baku,
Almaty, Minsk, Kiev)