Date
17/12/1999  
First
Alexander  
Surname
LOSKUTOV  
Sex/Age
M, 44  
Incident
accident  
Motive
J  
Place
road  
Job
journalist  
Medium
print  
Federal District Plus
Chechnya  
Street, Town, Region
Grozny, Chechnya  
Freelance
no  
Local/National
national, Morskoi sbornik  
Other Ties
 
Cause of Death
car crash  
Legal Qualification
no information  
Impunity
investigation  
Post Image

Captain Alexander Loskutov, a correspondent with the Morskoi sbornik magazine, was killed near Grozny on the morning of 17 December 1999.

It was Loskutov's second tour of duty in Chechnya. He was travelling with a column of marines when the driver of a tank lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the correspondent's car. Loskutov and his driver died on the spot. He had spent a month in the trenches and flown in a helicopter over besieged Grozny, wrote Kommersant (21 December 1999) but died beneath the tracks of a Russian tank. First reports said he had died in Dagestan.

Loskutov had served in the Russian armed forces since 1973. In 1998 he was transferred to Moscow from Sebastopol and began work for Morskoi sbornik, a magazine published by the Ministry of Defence, but for lack of accommodation did not move his young family there.