NGO Memorial, and author for Novaya gazeta, was abducted and murdered. Estemirova was abducted around 8.30 am from outside her home in Grozny, Chechnya as she was working on "extremely sensitive" cases of human rights abuses in Chechnya. Two witnesses reportedly saw Estemirova being pushed into a car, shouting that she was being abducted. She was found with bullet wounds in the head and chest at 4.30 pm in woodland away from the "Kavkaz" federal highway near the village of Gazi-Yurt, Ingushetia. 1 August 2011 – Malika Betiyeva was killed on the Grozny-Shatoi highway. The deputy chief editor of Molodyozhnaya smena and Chechnya correspondent of the Dosh (Word) magazine died with four of her immediate family in a car crash. See also Russian mafia Crime in Russia List of newspapers in Russia List of Russian-language television channels Media freedom in Russia List of journalists killed in Tajikistan List of journalists killed in the United States References External links Glasnost Defence Foundation Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations Committee to Protect Journalists International Federation of Journalists Transcript of "Czar Putin", a CNN documentary investigating how many journalists have been killed in Russia since 1991 Censorship in Russia Human rights abuses in Russia Politics of Russia Russia Journalists Russian political activists Terrorism in Russia Lists of mass media in Russia