DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA

This database includes the violent, premature or unexplained deaths of journalists in Russia recorded by the country's own media monitors since 1993. Each entry (click on View in last column of LIST) offers a narrative account of the journalist's work and death based mainly on monitoring information gathered in Moscow by the Glasnost Defence Foundation and the Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations.

Click here to jump to detailed search instructions.

Year of Death	Surname	Job	Incident	Federal District Plus	Motive	Impunity	SA
		Journalist Editor Director Photographer Cameraman Media worker	homicide accident crossfire terrorist act not confirmed missing	Moscow Chechnya North Caucasus St Petersburg CENTRAL SOUTH NORTHWEST VOLGA URALS SIBERIA FAR EAST	J ?J nJ

Page 1 of 33, showing 10 records out of 330 total, starting on record 1, ending on 10

Date	Surname	Job	Incident	town, region	Motive	Actions
28/04/2002	Stepanov	journalist	accident	Krasnoyarsk Region	J	View
10/06/2004	Kravchenko	media worker, producer	accident	Tula	J	View
03/05/2003	Kozar	journalist	accident	Chita Region	J	View
02/06/2001	Gemma	journalist	accident	district, Khabarovsk Region	J	View
02/06/2001	Pivovarov	cameraman	accident	district, Khabarovsk Region	J	View
02/06/2001	Maklakova	journalist	accident	district, Khabarovsk Region	J	View
10/06/2004	Makeyev	cameraman	accident	Tula	J	View
24/12/1995	MOLCHANOV	cameraman	accident	district, Chechnya	J	View
03/05/2003	Yamalov	photographer	accident	Chita Region	J	View
02/05/2006	KOCHETOV	cameraman	accident	Moscow	J	View

It is possible to use the global Search command (below) but the database has been specially designed to also make possible quick and comparative searches by category of the job of the deceased or missing journalist, the nature of the incident, the region (Federal District) where the incident occurred, subsequent actions by the authorities (Impunity), and an assessment of the link to the individual’s activities as a journalist (Motive).

About this database

In June 2009 the International Federation of Journalists, which sponsored the creation of this database, published a report entitled Partial Justice: An investigation into the deaths of journalists in Russia, 1993-2009. It is easier to use this database, and to follow the report, if the two sources are consulted together.

1. Searching For An Individual

If you know who you are looking for, type their name into the Surname box in SEARCH CRITERIA and press Search. Then in the last Actions column of SEARCH RESULTS (below) select View and press Enter.

When you wish to return to the full list, press Search again.

2. Complex Search and Analysis

To identify wider groups of journalists by a variety of criteria (location, type of death, reason for death, job):

1. 1.select from one or all of the three drop-down lists (Motive, Incident, Federal District +, Job, Impunity),
2. type in [a] Year of death, [b] journalist (or: editor, director, photographer, cameraman, media worker) in the Job field and [c] conviction (or: acquittal, investigation, case not opened, amnesty) in the Impunity field.

Once you have made your selection, click on Search. These criteria will be combined. In this way, for example, you can find out the names of photographers [Job] who have been murdered [Incident] in Moscow [Federal District plus].

When you wish to return to the full list, press Search again

The key entry Motive offers an assessment as to whether a particular death was certainly, possibly or probably not linked to the investigations and publications of the journalist in question. If the link is certain this is indicated as J. If it was not linked, this is indicated as nJ. In cases where there is a possibility of a link, but the death has not been officially investigated or that investigation leaves doubts as to the motive, then the death is indicated as ?J.

Some tips

1. Reversing sequence of years: You can start with the earliest years of these records by clicking on the column heading for Date of Death in SEARCH RESULTS. This reverses the chronological sequence.
2. Viewing dB full screen is often helpful. Either press F11 on the keyboard to go full screen, or select "Full Screen" from the View option in your browser's menu bar. You can now move forwards and backwards in full screen mode by shifting the mouse to top left hand corner of the screen and clicking. Pressing F 11 again, or "Full Screen" in the View option of the menu bar, returns you to the normal screen ("Close Full Screen") .