- Date
- 13/05/2000
- First
- Alexander
- Surname
- YEFREMOV
- Sex/Age
- M, 41
- Incident
- crossfire
- Motive
- J
- Place
- road
- Job
- photographer
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- Chechnya
- Street, Town, Region
- Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- local, Nashe vremya
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- crossfire, explosives
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No Information
Alexander Yefremov, a photo journalist with Nashe Vremya newspaper (Tyumen Region), died on 13 May 2000 in Chechnya when the car, in which he was travelling with two police officers from Alkhan-Kala to Grozny, was blown up by Chechen militants not far from Kirov village.
Yefremov went to Chechnya, with a grant from the Soros Foundation's “Russian Journalists in Trouble Spots“ project, to write about soldiers from his own region in Siberia who were serving at a temporary internal affairs base in the Zavodskoi district in Grozny.
A photographer and journalist with Nashe Vremya (formerly Tyumensky komsomolets) since 1991, Yefremov had already been sent to Chechnya by his paper in April and November 1995.