Journalist's murder unsolved in Ukraine
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Media freedom advocates harshly criticized Ukrainian authorities Wednesday for a lack of progress in the inquiry into the murder of an investigative journalist seven years ago.
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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A journalist killed last week apparently was not the main target of the attack, authorities said Monday.
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The apparent front-runner was out of action for weeks with a mysterious illness. His close rival was hospitalized after an attack and was then warned he could be assassinated. With Ukraine's presidential election three weeks away, democracy seems to have gone badly awry as chaos and suspicion overshadow campaign issues in this strategically important country that sways between the West and Russia.
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A leading female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week -- crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the war in rebel Chechnya, was found shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, news agencies reported.
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Amnesty International urged Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to investigate thoroughly the murder of an independent journalist which it said would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 22 -- Ukrainian prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of a leading candidate in presidential elections scheduled for next month.
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The leading security force in the Ukraine is denying any involvement in the poisoning scandal of Viktor Yushchenko. The presidential candidateâs doctors confirmed earlier this month that the man was poisoned by dioxin back in September.
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The widow of murdered Alexander Litvinenko says the Russian authorities could have been behind his death.
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PRAGUE, Jan 30 (IPS) - The investigation into the 2004 alleged poisoning  of President Viktor Yushchenko when he was a candidate for the  presidency remains unsolved, but there is no lack of chilling  theories, some of which stain the President himself.
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Ukraine's repeat election campaign has officially begun, but the country's ruling elite was silent after news that presidential frontrunner Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned earlier in the race.
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Russian police have arrested a third  Chechen in their investigation into the murder of a U.S.  reporter who wrote about the volatile region and charted the  fortunes of the rich, local media reported Friday.
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Unknown assailants shot and wounded an investigative journalist from Kosovo's leading daily newspaper, a police official said Friday.
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The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry alleged Tuesday that an independent journalist killed last week in this turbulent ex-Soviet nation was linked to Islamic militants, an accusation his former employer dismissed as "ravings."
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Ukraine's press remains polarised, despite Viktor Yushchenko's clear election victory.
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MOSCOW  - In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.