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

 

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.