Date
27/10/1999  
First
Supyan  
Surname
EPENDIYEV  
Sex/Age
M  
Incident
crossfire  
Motive
J  
Place
town centre  
Job
journalist  
Medium
print  
Federal District Plus
Chechnya  
Street, Town, Region
Grozny, Chechnya  
Freelance
no  
Local/National
local, Groznensky rabochy  
Other Ties
 
Cause of Death
crossfire  
Legal Qualification
no information  
Impunity
No Information  
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Supyan Ependiyev, correspondent of the Groznensky rabochy newspaper, was fatally wounded in Grozny on 27 October 1999 during the bombardment of the Chechen capital by federal artillery. After a few shells fells in the city centre, he went to investigate but was wounded by shrapnel from the following shell. Ependiyev was taken to emergency hospital No 9, but doctors could not save his life. He died on 29 October 1999.

By then Groznensky rabochy was the only non-government newspaper to continue appearing in Chechnya. When federal forces again started shelling Grozny, the newspaper moved to neighbouring Ingushetia but certain correspondents remained, Ependiyev among them, and once a week brought their reports to Nazran before returning to Grozny.

Until 1989 Ependiyev was a secondary school teacher in the town of Shevchenko (Kazakhstan). Then he moved to Chechnya and became a journalist.