Date

18/09/2004  

First

Vladimir  

Surname

PRITCHIN  

Sex/Age

M  

Incident

homicide  

Motive

?J  

Place

river  

Job

chief editor  

Medium

TV  

Federal District Plus

SIBERIA  

Street, Town, Region

district, Buryatia  

Freelance

no  

Local/National

local, Severobaikal TV  

Other Ties

 

Cause of Death

murder, beaten  

Legal Qualification

no information  

Impunity

investigation, detained  

CJES, 38 (2004)

A journalist was killed in the Republic of Buryatia in the course of a poaching raid on September 17.

Severobaikalsk Television Company Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Pritchin filmed the raid conducted by three inspectors. They saw poachers but the wrongdoers managed to escape.

The inspectors and Pritchin stopped for the night at a pickup post where seven other people were staying. The poachers attacked the sleeping people, took their guns and disappeared in the inspectors’ motorboats. Pritchin died on the way to hospital. One of the inspectors died in hospital.