Wikipedia's fast!
Under her bio, in the category
Murdered Journalists were some interesting entries:
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Veronika Cherkasova, Belarusian journalist, born in Minsk, Belarus. She was stabbed to death in her Minsk apartment on October 20, 2004 ....(SNIP)... she published several articles about illegal arms trade between Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus and Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
(Lukashenko's Belarus keeps very close ties to Russia, and often acts as a conduit for Russian weapons to countries too contraversial to supply directly.)
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Dmitry Zavadsky, a Belarusian journalist, cameraman of Russian Public Television ORT. On July 7, 2000 Dmitry Zavadsky drove to the Minsk airport to meet journalist colleague Pavel Sheremet. His car was latter found at the airport, but Zavadsky has not been seen since...(SNIP)...His body was never recovered and the circumstances of his presumed death were not explained."
(Ditto)
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Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze, a Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000. The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against the government of the then President, Leonid Kuchma. Gongadze's killers have yet to be publicly identified or put on trial...(SNIP)... in March 2005. His widow Myroslava Gongadze and their two children received political asylum in the United States and have lived there since 2001."
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Paul Klebnikov, an American journalist of Russian descent...(SNIP)...He wrote Godfather of the Kremlin (September 2000), a biography of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian tycoon. Berezovsky was openly critical of Klebnikov's writings, particularly an article published in Forbes in 1996 about his (alleged) criminal activities for which he filed a libel suit. Forbes was forced to retract the allegations. Berezovsky is wanted in Russia on fraud charges and was granted political asylum in the UK."
Other murdered Russian journalists (from
CPJ):
Vladimir Yatsina, ITAR-TASS, February 20, 2000, Chechnya
Igor Domnikov, Novaya Gazeta, July 16, 2000, Moscow
Eduard Markevich, Novy Reft, September 18, 2001, Reftinsky, Sverdlovsk Region
Natalya Skryl, Nashe Vremya, March 9, 2002, Rostov-on-Don
Valery Ivanov, Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye, April 29, 2002, Togliatti
Aleksei Sidorov, Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye, October 9, 2003, Togliatti
CPJ's website has a lot on harassment and violence against reporters in Russia