journalist for local print and radio. Khabarovsk, Primorsky Krai. Homicide [nJ]. 16 January – Nikolai Lapin, chief editor "Obo vsyom" newspaper. Tolyatti, Samara Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 3 February – Yury Baldin, chief editor at Focus TV. Chelyabinsk. Homicide [nJ]. 12 February – Vyacheslav Zvonarev, editor with Takt TV company. Kursk. Homicide [nJ]. 25 February – Vadim Biryukov, chief editor of "Delovye lyudi" magazine, Novolesnaya St, Moscow. Homicide [nJ]. 23 March – Vladimir Aliev, Prokhladnoye, Kabardino-Balkaria. Homicide [nJ]. 30 March – Nikolai Mozolin, Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 10 May – Alexander Korkin, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 6 August – Valery Krivosheyev, Lipetsk. Homicide [nJ]. 19 October – Lydia Lazarenko, Nizhny Novgorod. Homicide [nJ]. 1998 30 January – Vladimir Zbaratsky, Mosfilmoskaya St, Moscow. Homicide [nJ]. 2 April – Ivan Fedyunin, correspondent of the Bryanskie Izvestia newspaper. Homicide, Bryansk [nJ]. 6 April – Lira Lobach, media worker. district, Tomsk Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 20 May – Igor Myasnikov, Kineshma, Yaroslavl Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 7 June – Larisa Yudina, chief editor of the Sovetskaya Kalmykia Segodnya newspaper. Elista, Kalmykia. Contract killing. Perpetrators convicted (1999), but not those behind her murder [J]. 28 July – Vladimir Ustinov, Ivanovo. Homicide [nJ]. 17 August – Sergei Semenduyev, Makhachkala, Dagestan. Missing [nJ]. 24 August – Anatoly Levin-Utkin, St Petersburg. Homicide [?J]. 27 August – Mirbaba Seidov, homicide, Kaliningrad Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 29 August – Victor Shamro, homicide, St Petersburg. Homicide [nJ]. 2 September – Farid Sidaui, correspondent of the Prosto nedvizhimost magazine. Ramenka St, Moscow. Homicide [nJ]. 30 December – Sergei Chechugo, Vladivostok. Not confirmed [?J]. 1999 19 February – Gennady Bodrov, Homicide [nJ]. 25 February – Valentina Mirolyubova and Nikolai Mirolyubov, Homicide [nJ]. 4 March – Andrei Polyakov, Homicide [nJ]. 30 May – Alexei Kulanov, Homicide [nJ]. 30 June – Vadim Rudenko, Homicide. 30 August – Lubov Loboda, Kuibyshev (Novosibirsk Oblast). Contract killing. Perpetrator, intermediary and man who ordered her dead all charged and convicted [nJ]. 27 September – Christopher Reese, Moscow. Homicide [nJ]. 27 October – Supyan Ependiyev, correspondent of the Groznenskiy Rabochy newspaper, Chechnya. Crossfire [J]. 29 October – Cameramen Shamil Gigayev and Ramzan Mezhidov, national TVC channel and local Chechen TV. Shami-Yurt, Chechnya. Crossfire. 2005 Judgment by European Court of Human Rights [J]. Under Putin (2000–2008; incl. 2nd Chechen conflict) 2000–2002 2000 1 February – Vladimir Yatsina, a photocorrespondent with ITAR-TASS. On his first and only trip to Chechnya he was kidnapped and