- Date
- 04/10/1998
- First
- Galina
- Surname
- Mashtakova
- Sex/Age
- F
- Incident
- accident
- Motive
- J
- Place
- hospital
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- Moscow
- Street, Town, Region
- Freelance
- yes
- Local/National
- national, Trud
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- consequence of injury in Chechnya
- Legal Qualification
- Impunity
- No Information
A special correspondent for the Trud newspaper, Galina Mashtakova died in Moscow on 4 October 1998. Her death was the result of a long illness following concussion received in Chechnya the previous year.
Mashtakova worked as a war correspondent for a number of Moscow periodicals and had reported from every hot spot.