Aleksandr Rastorguyev
Year: 2018
Nationality: Russia
Killed by: Criminal Group,Local Residents,Military Officials,Paramilitary Group,Political Group
Location: Kémo, Central African Republic
Press organization: The Investigations Management Centre (TsUR)
What's Aleksandr Rastorguyev's story?
Aleksandr Rastorguyev, a documentary director, was killed with his two colleagues–freelance reporter Orkhan Dzhemal and cameraperson Kirill Radchenko–on July 30, 2018, in an attack on their vehicle while driving about 30 kilometers north of the town of Sibut in the Central African Republic, according to a Reuters report citing local officials and Russian media reports. He was 47 years old. A statement issued by the Moscow-based investigative media outlet The Investigations Management Centre (TsUR), which is financed by exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said that the journalists were on assignment for TsUR investigating private Russian mercenaries, including a group known as Wagner that has been allegedly working in the Central African Republic. TsUR’s chief editor, Andrey Konyakhin, told CPJ the journalists left Moscow on July 27, and that the last communication with them was the evening of July 29.
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