Adlan Khasanov (russian: Адлан Хасанов 25 May 1970 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian Chechen
journalist
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and
photographer
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, killed in action in
Grozny
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The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2010 census, it had a po ...
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Reuters Photojournalist Adlan Khasanov Killed With President in Chechen Bomb Blast
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Khasanov studied journalism at the Chechen State University
Chechen State University (Russian: Чеченский государственный университет) is a university located in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. The school is home to the North Caucasian Centre of Pedagogics. The university t ...
, and later worked in newspapers as a reporter and photographer. He also worked for Reuters
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The agency was est ...
and Radio Liberty
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.
He was killed during a 9 May Victory Day
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parade
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at the "Dynamo" stadium in Grozny, in a bomb blast
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carried out by Chechen separatists in an attempt to eliminate Kremlin-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov
Akhmad-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov ce, Къадири Ӏабдулхьамидан кӀант Ахьмад-Хьажи, Q̇adiri Jabdulẋamidan khant Aẋmad-Ẋaƶi (23 August 1951 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian politician and revolutionar ...
. The stadium had undergone remodeling and reconstruction, and, according to reports, a bomb placed inside a concrete part of the structure escaped security detection sweeps.
See also
* List of journalists killed in Russia
The dangers to journalists in Russia have been known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. While international monitors mentioned a dozen deat ...
References
External links
Workshop in Memory of Reuters Photojournalist Adlan Khasanov
Report on Khasanov's death
- IFEX
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1970 births
2004 deaths
Chechen journalists
Journalists killed while covering the Chechen wars
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty people
Reuters people
Russian photojournalists
War photographers
Russian people of Chechen descent
Chechen people
20th-century Russian journalists
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