Yuri Shchekochikhin

Year: 2003

Nationality: Russia

Killed by: Government Officials

Location: Moscow, Russia

Press organization: Novaya Gazeta

What's Yuri Shchekochikhin's story?

Shchekochikhin, 53, then deputy editor of the independent Moscow twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta, died 12 days after being hospitalized in a Moscow clinic with what doctors said was an acute allergic reaction, according to CPJ interviews and multiple press reports.

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