- Date
- 02/11/1995
- First
- Andrei
- Surname
- Ulanov
- Sex/Age
- M, 40
- Incident
- homicide
- Motive
- ?J
- Place
- flat door
- Job
- chief editor
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- VOLGA
- Street, Town, Region
- Togliatti, Samara Region
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- local, Togliatti segodnya
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- shot, contract killing
- Legal Qualification
- Impunity
- investigation, detained
Andrei Ulanov, chief editor of the Togliatti Segodnya newspaper, was attacked when he answered the door of his apartment on the evening of 15 October 1995. His assailants fired at him three times. Ulanov was taken to the emergency department of the hospital where he died three weeks later.
The head of the recently bankrupted firm Nikolskaya, Alexander Chevozerov, was detained on suspicion of organising the attack. Ulanov’s newspaper had frequently written about the illegal activities of Chevozerov’s firm which in Togliatti duplicated the Ponzi scheme practised at the national level by the notorious MMM. No one was prosecuted for the killing.
This was only one among numerous unsolved contract killings, commented the Ogonyok weekly after Ulanov’s death (13 November 1995): it was a sign that the city’s criminal world, as elsewhere in Russia, had finished sharing out property and was now moving in on Togliatti’s media business.
Ulanov was the first of six chief editors, directors and publishers to be killed in Russia’s former car-making capital on the Volga.