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Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225.sPubDate = "3/7/2007 11:54:20 PM GMT";
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Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225.appHeader = "fact file|Suspicious deaths in Russia";
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225.appDeck = "At least two dozen other journalists or government officials critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin have died under mysterious circumstances since 2000. Following are some of the more prominent:";
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225.appFooter = "Source: MSNBC.com research/Alex Johnson";
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Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Artyom Borovik","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Borovik, 39, a former \"60 Minutes\" producer, died in the crash of a small plane March 9, 2000. He was highly critical of President Vladimir Putin as publisher of the monthly investigative newspaper Top Secret and host of an investigative television program. Police said the plane may have been sabotaged.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Igor Domnikov","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Domnikov, 41, a reporter and colleague of Anna Politkovskaya at Novaya Gazeta, died July 16, 2000, two months after he was bludgeoned in the entryway to his apartment in Moscow and left in a coma.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Vladimir Golovlev","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Gologlev, 45, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party, was shot dead Aug. 21, 2002, near his Moscow home. \"The murder of one of the five co-chairmen of Liberal Russia is undoubtedly of a political nature,\" fellow Liberal Russia co-Chairman Sergei Yushenkov said. Unsolved.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Sergei Yushenkov","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Yushenkov, 52, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia party, was shot dead April 17, 2003, outside his Moscow apartment building. He was leading an investigation of the FSB's alleged role in apartment bombings in 1999 that were the pretext for the second war in Chechnya.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Yuri Schekochikhin","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Schekochikhin, 53, an editor at Novaya Gazeta who was reporting on the the 1999 apartment bombings, died July 3, 2003, of an \"extreme allergic syndrome.\" Relatives said he was poisoned, but the files were closed, and there was no investigation.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Paul Klebnikov","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Klebnikov, 41, the U.S.-born editor of Forbes Russia who had written extensively on crime and corruption following the collapse of the Soviet Union, was shot dead outside his office July 9, 2004. Three suspects were acquitted.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Vassily Grodnikov","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Grodnikov, a reporter for Norodnaya Volya, was found dead Oct. 18, 2005, in his apartment in the Minsk suburbs, killed by a blow from a blunt object. He  had been working on a draft article headlined \"A booked office or several uncompromising questions for the president of the country and the agencies under his control.\"";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Andrei Kozlov","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Kozlov, 41, who crusaded against Russia's corrupt banking system as deputy chairman of the Central Bank, was shot dead Sept. 14, 2006, as he left a soccer stadium.";

Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i++] = new Array("","Anna Politkovskaya","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
Dateline_RussiaDeaths_070225[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Politkovskaya, 48, an internationally known reporter and a leading critic of Putin, was shot to death Oct. 7, 2006, in her apartment building. She survived a poisoning after covering the 2004 siege of a school in Beslan; like Alexander Litvinenko, she fell ill after drinking tea.";

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