DEATH LIST: Prominent Russian journalists who have been murdered

Dmitri Krikoryants (Expresskhronika), April 1993. Throat slit in his apartment in Grozny.

Dmitri Krikoryants (Expresskhronika), April 1993. Throat slit in his apartment in Grozny.

Yuri Soltis ( Interfax News Agency), June 1994. Beaten to death at a railway station outside Moscow

Dmitri Kholodov (Moskovsiy Komsomolets), October 1994. Killed when opening a booby-trapped briefcase in Moscow.

Vyacheslav Rudnev (freelance), February 1995. Found dead at the entrance to his apartment block in Kaluga.

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Vladislav Listyev (ORT Television), March 1995. Shot outside his apartment block in Moscow.

Natalya Alyakina (Focus-Germany), June 1995. Shot by a border guard in Budyonnovsk.

Vadim Alferyev (Segodnyashnyaya Gazeta), December 1995. Beaten to death outside his apartment block in Krasnoyarsk.

Felix Solovyov (freelance), February 1996. Shot dead in central Moscow.

Nadezhda Chaikova (Obshchaya Gazeta), March 1996, executed either by soldiers or insurgents in Chechnya.

Nina Yefimova (Vozrozhdeniye), May 1996. Abducted and shot in Chechnya

Viktor Mikhailov (Zabaikalsky Rabochy), May 1996. Beaten to death in broad daylight in Siberian city of Chita.

Valery Krivosheyev (Komsomolskaya Pravda), September 1997. Beaten to death in Lipetsk.

Larisa Yudina (Sovietskaya Kalmykia), June 1998.Stabbed to death in Kalmykia.

Anatoly Levin-Utkin, (Yurichichesky Petersburg Segodnya), August 1998. Beaten to death and briefcase with investigative material stolen in St Petersburg.

Vladimir Yatsina (Itar-Tass news agency), February 2000. Kidnapped and murdered by insurgents in Chechnya.

Igor Domnikov (Novaya Gazeta), May 2000. Beaten to death with a hammer at his Moscow apartment block.

Eduard Markevich (Novy Reft), September 2001. Shot in the back in the Reftinsky and Sverdlovsk region.

Natalia Skryl (Nashe Vremya), March 2002. Beaten to death in Rostov-on-Don.

Valery Ivanov (Tolyatinskoye Oborzreniye), April 2002. Shot outside his home in the city of Togliatti.

Yuri Shchekochikhin (Novaya Gazeta), June 2003. Believed to have been poisoned in Moscow.

Aleksei Sidorov (Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye), October 2003. Stabbed to death in Togliatti.

Paul Klebnikov (Forbes magazine), July 2004. Shot outside his office in Moscow.

Pavel Makeev (Puls), May 2005. Shot dead in Azov.

Magomedzagid Varisov (Novoye Delo), June 2005. Gunned down with his wife outside their home in Makhachkala.

Anna Politkovskaya (Novaya Gazeta), October 2006. Shot dead in Moscow.