- Date
- 15/06/1994
- First
- Yury
- Surname
- SOLTYS
- Sex/Age
- M, 35
- Incident
- homicide
- Motive
- ?J
- Place
- rail station
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- news agency
- Federal District Plus
- CENTRAL
- Street, Town, Region
- Moscow Region
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- national, Interfax
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- murder, beaten
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No Information
The body of Yury Soltys, who headed the political news department at the Interfax news agency, was identified on 15 June 1994.
Soltys lived out of Moscow and worked shifts at Interfax. He was found on a bench at a railway station some 20 kms before his regular stop and it is thought he was killed when returning home late from work. His face was so mutilated that it proved difficult to secure a sure identification.
Before moving to Interfax Soltys worked at TASS news agency and was there involved in investigative journalism.
The investigation into his death produced no results.