Six journalists were killed in
hardliner uprising against Russian President Boris Yeltsin, which left scores
of people dead and wounded. One journalist died of a heart attack during the
siege of the
Yvan Scopan, a cameraman for TF-1 Television Company; Sergei Krasilnikov, a
video engineer for Ostankino Television Company; Rory Peck, a cameraman for the
German ARD Television Company; and Igor Belozyorov, an editor for the Ostankino
State Broadcasting Company were killed in a gun battle between the hardliners
and their supporters and pro-Yeltsin special forces units the control of
Ostankino Television Center. Vladimir Drobyshev died of a heart attack during
the clash.
Aleksandr Sidelnikov, a cameraman for Lennauchfilm Studio in
the weekly newspaper Molodyozhny Kuryer, were killed at the Russian
Parliament house when President Yeltsin ordered the military to seize the
building.