Date
14/01/2011  
First
Yekaterina  
Surname
SILINA  
Sex/Age
F, 16  
Incident
homicide  
Motive
nJ  
Place
not known  
Job
journalist  
Medium
press  
Federal District Plus
Moscow  
Street, Town, Region
Moscow  
Freelance
yes  
Local/National
REX information agency  
Other Ties
student at journalism faculty  
Cause of Death
 
Legal Qualification
 
Impunity
 
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MAN SUSPECTED OF MURDERING SILINA ARRESTED (January 2012)

The stepfather of missing journalism student, Stepan Goncharuk, has been arrested on suspicion of killing both her and her mother Yevgenia. Under questioning he admitted to having murdered his wife in June 2010 and Yekaterina in January the following year.

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MISSING (14 January 2011)

An investigation has been opened into the disappearance of journalism student, 16-year-old Yekaterina Silina, who was last seen around 9 pm on 13 January near the journalism faculty in Moscow.

She then told friends and relatives that she might be in danger: “If we were give assurances that she had gone away, she asked us not to believe this but report her absence to the police,” said a friend. Although still a student Silina was preparing material about the new Moscow authorities for the Rex information agency.