Russian Politics

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Magomed Yevloyev died Sunday after a police car picked him up from an airport in the Ingushetia province and then dumped him on the road with a gunshot wound in the head.
Regional prosecutor Yuri Turygin said a police officer "accidentally" shot Yevloyev after the journalist allegedly tried to take away the officer's gun, the Interfax news agency reported.



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http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24272873-5001028,00.html
Kremlin critic found dead
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Moscow
August 31, 2008 11:10pm
THE founder of a website that has criticised the Kremlin's policies in the Caucasus was found dead today in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, according to prosecutors quoted by Interfax.
Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into the death of Magomed Yevloyev, who ran the website ingushetia.ru, said the news agency.
The website reported that Yevloyev was killed while in police custody.
"Magomed Yevloyev was arrested today in Ingushetia and was killed,'' said a report posted on his website www.ingushetia.ru.
Interfax quoted spokesman Vladimir Markin of the prosecutor's office as saying that "an incident'' took place after he was taken into a police car "resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital''.
The website is among the most visited for news on Ingushetia, a republic bordering Chechnya, and was openly opposed to Ingush president Murat Zyazikov, who had more than once threatened to shut it down.
Ekho Moskvy radio separately quoted local opposition activist Magomad Khazbiyev as saying that the website founder was arrested at gunpoint after his arrival in Narzan.
Yevloyev arrived on a flight that was also carrying the Ingush president.
"Yevloyev was arrested as he stepped off the plane,'' Khazbiyev said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/world/europe/01ingushetia.html?ref=todayspaper
A Journalist in Russia Is Shot Dead After Arrest

By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Published: August 31, 2008
MOSCOW — A Russian journalist known for his opposition views was arrested at an airport in southern Russia on Sunday, then fatally shot in the head in what authorities said was an accident but human rights groups said was suspicious.
The shooting, in Ingushetia, and other recent violence in southern Russia suggested a possible further clampdown on domestic dissent, such as it is, in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus border region in the wake of the war in Georgia. The area has been under tight police control for years.
The Russian prosecutor general’s office said the journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, was shot in the temple while being driven from the airport to a police station, and said it would open an investigation into an accidental death.