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2 Journalists Killed in Russia

Posted Mar 22, 08 5:55 CDT in World 

(Newser) – Two journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Russia, AFP reports. A reporter for state-run television was found strangled and stabbed in his Moscow apartment. Only hours earlier he had written a blog post saying "Now I'm a dissident!" The man had worked in Dagestan and elsewhere in the volatile North Caucasus region. Colleagues said he often worked in "combat-like conditions."

Another television journalist was killed in Dagestan itself. The head of a state-run TV station died when attackers in a passing vehicle riddled his car with bullets. Journalism is a dangerous profession in Russia; more than a dozen reporters having been killed since Vladimir Putin took power. Government critics charge that freedom of the press is being stifled.

Sources AFP, Independent (UK)

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Channel One, state-run Russian television, correspondent Ilyas Shurpayev is seen in Dagestan region's capital Makhachkala in this Sept. 2007 photo.   (AP Photo/News Team, Sergei Rasulov)
The head of Dagestan's state-controlled television station Gadzhi Abashilov is seen in the provincial capital, Makhachkala, Russia in this December 2002 file photo. Abashilov was shot and killed Friday,...   (AP Photo/News Team, Sergei Rasulov, File)
A man holds a picture of killed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya during a protest against Russia's President Valdimir Putin, Sofia, Bulgaria, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
A man holds a poster with picture of killed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and slogan 'The Price of justice is death' during a protest .   (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
Police officers and members of the media surround the bullet ridden car of the head of Dagestan's state-controlled television station, Gadzhi Abashilov, Makhachkala, Russia, Friday, March 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/News Team, Sergei Rasulov)
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