- Date
- 17/12/1999
- First
- Alexander
- Surname
- LOSKUTOV
- Sex/Age
- M, 44
- Incident
- accident
- Motive
- J
- Place
- road
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- 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
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.