- Date
- 30/06/1997
- First
- Manuk
- Surname
- ZHAZHOYAN
- Sex/Age
- M
- Incident
- accident
- Motive
- nJ
- Place
- street
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- St Petersburg
- Street, Town, Region
- Nevsky prospekt, St Petersburg
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- foreign, Russkaya mysl
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- car, hit and run
- Legal Qualification
- Impunity
- No Information
Manuk Zhazhoyan, a journalist with the Russkaya mysl weekly (Paris), was hit by a car on 30 June 1997 on Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg at 1.30 am. He was taken to hospital where he died at 10 am without regaining consciousness. The driver did not stop.
Zhazhoyan had come to Russia to gather material about the Civil Oversight public organisation. He had also written for the émigré weekly (founded 1947) about the case of Alexander Nikitin, a Russian naval officer arrested on suspicion of treason as a member of a Norwegian ecological organisation.