Yuri Shchekochikhin [SEP] manner of death
Roman Tsepov, and Alexander Litvinenko. According to Litvinenko and news reports, the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin was a politically motivated assassination.
Investigative journalism and political career.
Shchekochikhin graduated from the Journalism Department of Moscow State University in 1975. He worked as an investigative journalist at "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (1972–1980) and "Literaturnaya Gazeta" (1980–1996), and then as a deputy editor of the liberal newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" (from 1996). Beginning in the 1990s, he published many articles critical of the
mistaken for Oleg Sultanov," stated the late friend and coworker Yuri Shchekochikhin.
Awards.
After his death, at the Laureate Freedom of Speech awards in 2010, he and four other journalists from the "Novaya Gazeta" – Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Anna Politkovskaya, and Yuri Shchekochikhin – were credited with paying the greatest price in order to fight for the right to free speech.
See also.
- List of journalists killed in Russia
External links.
- Newseum online exhibit for Igor Domnikov