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RUSSIA
TWO SUSPECTS CONFESS TO MURDERING
JOURNALIST...
Two suspects arrested in connection with
the murder of "Sovetskaya Kalmykia Segodnya" editor
Larisa Yudina have confessed to the crime, Interfax
reported on 16 June, quoting Yurii Biryukov, the deputy
head of the Prosecutor-General's Office's Main Department
in the North Caucasus. He said Sergei Vaskin, a former aide
to Kalmykian President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, and Tyurbi
Boskomdzhiev, Ilyumzhinov's representative in Volgograd
Oblast, have been charged with premeditated murder.
Authorities are still searching for a third suspect in the
case, Biryukov said. Investigators believe Yudina's murder
was linked to her journalist activities. "Sovetskaya
Kalmykia Segodnya," which is printed outside the republic,
is the only local newspaper that criticizes Ilyumzhinov.
Yeltsin remarked on 15 June that "not everything" relating
to the investigation can be shared with law enforcement
officials in Kalmykia. LB
...AS KALMYK AUTHORITIES BAN RALLY IN
JOURNALIST'S MEMORY
The authorities in the Republic
of Kalmykia have prohibited a rally planned in memory of
Yudina, ITAR-TASS reported on 15 June. Lidiya Dordzhieva,
a close friend of Yudina's and head of a grass-roots
organization in Kalmykia, told the news agency that the
authorities banned the rally on the "pretext" that it might
stir up ethnic strife in the republic. Dordzhieva came to
Moscow on 15 June, saying she has received death threats
in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, since Yudina was killed.
Yudina's last story, published posthumously in "Sovetskaya
Kalmykia Segodnya," covered Dordzhieva's forced
treatment at a psychiatric clinic in Elista this March. LB
16-06-98
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