- Date
- 20/11/1997
- First
- Andrei
- Surname
- FADIN
- Sex/Age
- M, 43
- Incident
- accident
- Motive
- nJ
- Place
- street
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- Moscow
- Street, Town, Region
- Kutuzovsky prospect, Moscow
- Freelance
- yes
- Local/National
- national
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- car crash
- Legal Qualification
- No information
- Impunity
- No Information
Journalist Andrei Fadin died in a car accident in Moscow on 20 November 1997. According to the police he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a stationary object.
After his death articles appeared in the press, claiming that he had written an article based on a recording of a telephone conversation between two bankers (Berezovsky and Gusinsky). This was taken to be deliberate provocation. His widow denied this information. She and his colleagues said that Fadin had never taken part in the “information wars” fought between organisations and magnates and did not write articles based on compromising material. She requested journalists to leave the “good name” of the deceased in peace.
Fadin worked for a wide variety of Moscow newspapers and magazines from the late 1980s onwards. After graduating from Moscow University in 1976 he was a translator for two leading Moscow institutes until 1982 when, together with Boris Kagarlitsky, he fell foul of the authorities.