Novaya Gazeta

Anatoly Klyan, 68, a camera operator for the Russian state-owned broadcaster Pervy Kanal (Channel One), died on June 30, 2014, at a hospital in Donetsk, Ukraine, from bullet wounds in his abdomen, local and international press reported. Channel One said Klyan was wounded when the bus in which he was traveling came under fire. Klyan was traveling to a besieged military…

Mikhail Beketov, 55, the former editor of the independent newspaper Khimkinskaya Pravda in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, died in a Moscow hospital on April 8, 2013, from heart failure stemming from a choking episode during lunch, Elena Kostyuchenko, Beketov’s friend and a reporter for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, told CPJ by phone. The choking incident was directly related to…

On July 9, 2013, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, 53, deputy editor of the independent news outlet Novoye Delo and a contributor to the independent regional news website Kavkazsky Uzel, was shot dead at 7 a.m. outside his house in Semender, a suburb of Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, according to regional and international press reports. A gunman shot at the journalist from a car before…

Two assailants shot Kazbek Gekkiyev three times in the head as he was returning home from work with a friend at about 9 p.m. on December 5, 2012, in Nalchik, capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, according to local and international news reports. Gekkiyev, 28, was a news anchor for the regional affiliate of state-owned broadcaster VGTRK. The unidentified…

An assailant wearing a ski mask shot Baburova, 25, a freelance correspondent for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, at around 3 p.m. on a downtown street within walking distance of the Kremlin. Baburova had just covered a news conference at which prominent human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov fiercely denounced the early prison release of a…

Four men forced Estemirova, 50, into a white Lada sedan in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, as she was leaving her apartment for work, Reuters reported. Witnesses said the journalist shouted that she was being kidnapped as the car sped from the scene, according to press reports. Later the same day, her body was found in the…

A journalist renowned for her critical coverage of the Chechen-Russian conflict, Politkovskaya was found dead in her apartment building in Moscow. The Interfax news agency, citing police, said Politkovskaya was shot, and a pistol and four bullet casings were recovered. Politkovskaya, 48, was a special correspondent for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta and well known…

Shchekochikhin, 53, then deputy editor of the independent Moscow twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta, died 12 days after being hospitalized in a Moscow clinic with what doctors said was an acute allergic reaction, according to CPJ interviews and multiple press reports. Shchekochikhin’s relatives and colleagues believe the journalist was poisoned to prevent him from further uncovering the…

Domnikov, 42, a reporter and special-projects editor for the twice-weekly Moscow paper Novaya Gazeta, died on July 16, 2000, two months after being attacked in the entryway of his apartment building in southeastern Moscow. According to numerous sources, the reporter was attacked on May 12 by an unidentified assailant who hit him repeatedly on the…