Date

01/02/1994  

First

Sergei  

Surname

DUBOV  

Sex/Age

M, 50  

Incident

homicide  

Motive

nJ  

Place

stairwell entrance  

Job

director, publisher  

Medium

print  

Federal District Plus

Moscow  

Street, Town, Region

Moscow  

Freelance

no  

Local/National

national, Novoye vremya  

Other Ties

 

Cause of Death

shot, contract killing  

Legal Qualification

not known  

Impunity

investigation  

On the morning of 1 February 1994, Sergei Dubov, president of the Novoye vremya publishing house, was shot dead outside the stairwell of his apartment block in north Moscow as he was leaving for work.

One suggestion is that this was a contract killing possibly linked to his financial debts. His death, according to the Segodnya daily (7 July 1994), was the first in a series of killings in the struggle for control over the “still not privatised publishing and printing sector”.

Dubov was responsible not only for the political weekly Novoye vremya (The New Times) but in 1991 created the very popular Vsyo dlya vas newspaper for free adverts, creating an advertising agency and finally set up a publishing house of which he became president in 1992.

Although a large investigative team was set up, drawing on national and Moscow resources, the murder was not solved.