- Id
- 314
- Date
- 29/06/2009
- First
- Vyacheslav
- Surname
- Yaroshenko
- Sex/Age
- M
- Incident
- not confirmed
- Motive
- ?J
- Place
- (stairwell)
- Job
- chief editor
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- SOUTH
- Street, Town, Region
- Rostov-on-Don
- Freelance
- No
- Local/National
- local, Korruptsia i prestupnost
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- beaten?
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No case opened
On 29 June 2009 Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, the editor in chief of the Corruption and Crime newspaper, died in Rostov-on-Don. He was severely beaten on 29 April in the stairwell entrance to his apartment block by unknown assailants, on returning home from work. Yaroshenko received severe head injuries, was in emergency care for some time, and then underwent two operations.
After the attack, a fellow editor from "Corruption and Crime" Sergei Sleptsov repeatedly stated that he had no doubts that this was vengeance for articles that Yaroshenko had published. Yet the local police at first refused even to register the attack and have still not opened a criminal investigation. They insist, Sleptsov says, that the deceased had slipped on the stairway.