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17 JUNE 1998

RUSSIA

EMPLOYEE OF OPPOSITION PAPER ATTACKED IN KALMYKIA
Semen Ageev, an employee of "Sovetskaya Kalmykia Segodnya," was beaten on 16 June as he was distributing the newspaper on a bus in the capital of Kalmykia, ITAR-TASS reported. The newspaper's editor, Larisa Yudina, was killed on 7 June. According to the Yabloko press service, the bus driver hit Ageev several times and said that "all of you should be killed," before throwing him off the bus. Meanwhile, "Komsomolskaya pravda" reported on 17 June that local observers believe Tyurbi Boskomdzhiev, one of the two suspects who has confessed to Yudina's murder, was "set up" and had nothing to do with the crime. Citing unnamed sources, "Komsomolskaya pravda" reported that Sergei Vaskin, the other suspect who has confessed to the crime, had a fresh deep scratch on his face when he was arrested--a possible result of a struggle with the journalist. LB

17-06-98


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