JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA, 1993 TO 2009

Deaths and Disappearances

About

This database includes all the violent, premature or unexplained deaths of journalists in Russia as recorded by the country's own media monitors since 1993. It also includes journalists and media staff who have disappeared over the same period.

A report entitled Partial Justice: An investigation into the deaths of journalists in Russia, 1993-2009 (June 2009) has been published by the International Federation of Journalists. It draws on this database and the other information gathered in Moscow over the past sixteen years by the Glasnost Defence Foundation and the Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations. It is easier to use this database, and to follow the report, if the two sources are consulted together. For example, the Jobs or activities of those included in the Search Criteria have been classified as one of the following: journalist, chief editor, director, media worker (plus photographer and cameraman). When you search for information under Impunity, enter terms such as investigation, trial, conviction, acquittal, and amnesty.

The key entry Motive offers an assessment as to whether a particular death was certainly, possibly or probably not linked to the investigations and publications of the journalist in question. If the link is certain this is indicated as J. If it was not linked, this is indicated as nJ. In cases where there is a possibility of a link, but the death has not been officially investigated or that investigation leaves doubts as to the motive, then the death is indicated as ?J

Search Criteria

Instructions for conducting searches

Select the criteria from drop-down lists or enter part of the text to search for and click Search. You can choose a number of criteria [see above] and they will be combined to tell you, for example, which journalists [Job] have been murdered [Incident] in Moscow [Federal District plus] See below the Search Results for a fuller account of certain rubrics.

When you wish to return to the full list, press Search again.

Click on the column heading Date and the sequence of years is reversed from the latest to the earliest.

Search Results

Page 4 of 17, showing 20 records out of 323 total, starting on record 61, ending on 80

Date	First	Surname	Incident	Place	Motive	Actions
30/04/2006	Konstantin	Laskin	not confirmed	railway	nJ	View
29/04/2006	Alexander	Ivanov	accident	railway	nJ	View
10/03/2006	Lyubov	Gruzdeva	accident	road	nJ	View
26/02/2006	Ilya	ZIMIN	homicide	flat	?J	View
24/02/2006	Tatyana	Ineshina	accident	airport	nJ	View
24/02/2006	Gennady	Yezhov	accident	road	nJ	View
24/02/2006	Natalya	Neimysheva	accident	road	nJ	View
08/01/2006	Vagif	KOCHETKOV	homicide	near home	nJ	View
07/11/2005	Yury	Khaichin	accident	road	nJ	View
04/11/2005	Kira	LEZHNEVA	homicide	flat	nJ	View
03/11/2005	Otto	Lacis	accident	hospital	nJ	View
13/10/2005	Tamirlan	KAZIKHANOV	crossfire	office	J	View
03/09/2005	Vladimir	Pashutin	not confirmed	stairwell entrance	nJ	View
03/09/2005	Nikolai	Vinnikov	accident	road	nJ	View
31/08/2005	Alexander	PITERSKY	homicide	flat	?J	View
07/08/2005	Sergei	Gruzintsev	accident	road	nJ	View
28/07/2005	Magomed	VARISOV	homicide	car, moving	J	View
16/07/2005	Mavlon	RADJABOV	homicide	town	nJ	View
23/05/2005	Pavel	Makeyev	not confirmed	road	?J	View
13/03/2005	Andrei	Karkin	accident	sea	nJ	View

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Structure of the database

Each record contains a summary of personal detail and a narrative account of the journalist's work and death. Three entries are particularly important:

Incident — defines the main categories of death, e.g. accident, crossfire, homicide, terrorist act.
Federal District plus — offers a broad guide to the location where the journalist died.
Impunity — indicates how far Russia's law enforcement agencies and judicial system have succeeded in identifying and prosecuting those responsible for these deaths.

Where a criminal case has been opened, Qualified as, the Article of the Criminal Code is indicated in the rubric.

Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango

Motive	Incident	Federal District Plus	Year of Death	Surname	SA	Job	Impunity