Crossfire [J]. Igor Belozerov, 4th Channel "Ostankino", editor. Crossfire [J]. Sergey Krasilnikov, "Ostankino" TV, video engineer. Shot at point-blank range within building. Homicide [J]. Vladimir Drobyshev, People and nature monthly, editor. Heart Attack [J]. Monday, 4 October, after midday. near Supreme Soviet building. Alexander Sidelnikov, freelance journalist and film-maker from Saint Petersburg. Crossfire [J]. Alexander Smirnov, Youth Courier newspaper (Yoshkar-Ola), correspondent. Crossfire [J]. 29 November – Elena Tkacheva, 26-year-old proof-reader for Kuban Courier newspaper, died in Krasnodar as a result of a bomb planted in the newspaper office. Terrorist Act [J] 9 December – Marina Iskanderova, journalist at local TV station, murdered in her apartment in Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Homicide [nJ]. 1994 1 February – Sergei Dubov, director of Novoye vremya publishing house, Moscow. Shot in contract killing. Homicide [nJ]. 26 April – Andrey Ayzderdzis, Duma deputy and publisher. Shot in contract killing, in Khimki, Moscow Oblast. Homicide [nJ]. 15 June – Yury Soltys, Interfax journalist and editor. Beaten to death in Moscow Oblast. Homicide [?J]. 15 October – Tatyana Zhuravlyova and husband, media workers, Komsomolskaya pravda (Samara bureau). Killed in Voronezh Oblast while driving. Homicide. [nJ]. 17 July – Yelena Roshchina, chief editor of children's newspaper, Ivanovo. Murdered in her flat. Homicide. The gang who killed her were tried and convicted in 2000 [nJ]. 17 October – Dmitry Kholodov, military correspondent of the Moskovskii Komsomolets newspaper, was killed in Moscow when a booby-trapped briefcase he had collected from a railway station locker exploded in his newspaper's offices. Homicide. Kholodov's alleged killers were tried and acquitted twice, once in 2002 and again in 2004 [J]. There were also four deaths in Chechnya after the conflict there began in November. 26 November – Hussein Guzuyev, director of Chechen TV & Radio Company. Grozny. Caught in crossfire between Dudayev supporters and pro-Moscow opposition [J]. 14 December – Gelani Charigov, journalist with Marsho private TV company. Grozny. Crossfire [J]. 22 December – Cynthia Elbaum, Freelance US photocorrespondent on assignment for Time magazine. Grozny. Crossfire [J]. 31 December – Bilal Akhmadov, cameraman for Marsho TV company. Grozny. Crossfire [J]. 1995–1996 (including 1st Chechen conflict) 1995 1 January – Vladimir Zhitarenko, correspondent of the Red Star (Krasnaya zvezda) newspaper, Chechnya. Crossfire [J]. 1 January – Pyotr Novikov, journalist with Smena magazine, Moscow. Homicide (linked to Anisimov killing in late 1994) [nJ]. 7 January – Sultan Nuriyev, Chechnya. Not Confirmed [?J]. 10 January – Jochen