Russian Television Journalist Killed -- Gaji Abashilov

2008 Ilyas Shurpayev, Dagestani journalist responsible for news coverage of Northern Caucasus on Channel One, was strangled with a belt in Moscow. Gaji Abashilov, chief of Dagestan outlet of VGTRK, shot in his car Russian Television Journalist Killed: Gaji Abashilov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaji_Abashilov Dos periodistas fueron asesinados en menos de 24 horas en Rusia La policía rusa investiga los crímenes de Ilyas Shurpayev, reportero de un canal de televisión y Gaji Abashilov,jefe de la cadena estatal de radio y televisión. 21/03/2008 20:08 http://www.latercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5702_344263747,00.html Russia, Assassinati Due Giornalisti Del Daghestan Adnkronos - Ven 21 Mar - 21.16 http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/adnkxml/20080321/tts-russia-assassinati-due-giornalisti-d-c8abaed_1.html TV and radio company head killed in Makhachkala 21.03.2008, 21.14 MAKHACHKALA, March 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Director of the Dagestan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company Gaji Abashilov, 58, was killed in Makhachkala on Friday, a city police source told Itar-Tass. The incident occurred near the Tashkent shopping mall at about 7:45 p.m. Moscow time. Abashilov and his driver were inside a Hyundai Sonata. The assailants opened submachine gunfire and escaped. Abashilov died instantly. His driver was taken to hospital. A forensic team is working on the crime scene. A federal task force will investigate the murder, a source at the Prosecutor General's Office told Itar-Tass. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said he would personally supervise the investigation. Abashilov is a local celebrity. He was in charge of the popular weekly Molodyozh Dagestana for over a decade and held the last position for slightly more than one year. http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12503361&PageNum=0 Main version of TV director murder is his professional activity 22.03.2008, 10.42 http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12504127&PageNum=0 Main version of TV director murder is his professional activity 22.03.2008, 10.42 MAKHACHKALA, March 22 (Itar-Tass) - The main version of the murder in Makhachkala late on Friday of Director of the Dagestan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company Gaji Abashilov is his professional activity, the chief investigator at the region's Main Investigation Department, Shamil Yunusov, told Tass on Saturday. He said the investigation also works on other versions, including feelings of dislike in his professional activity. Colleagues of Abashilov cannot give possible motives behind the murder. They mark his decency and fidelity to principles in his activity as director and reporter. Gaji Abashilov will be buried on Saturday at one of the Muslim cemeteries in Makhachkala. The Director of the Dagestan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company was killed in Makhachkala at about 7:45 p.m. Moscow time on Friday near the Tashkent shopping mall. Abashilov and his driver were inside a Hyundai Sonata. The assailants opened submachine gunfire and escaped. Abashilov died instantly. His driver was taken to hospital. The car used by assailants was found abandoned several blocks away from the crime scene. A Kalashnikov submachine gun, from which Abashilov is believed to have been killed, was found in the vehicle. A federal task force will investigate the murder, a source at the Prosecutor General's Office told Itar-Tass on Friday. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said he would personally supervise the investigation. Abashilov was a local celebrity. He was in charge of the popular weekly Molodyozh Dagestana for over a decade and held the last position for slightly more than one year. In the Molodyozh Dagestana he had his own column, where he discussed pressing issues worrying Dagestan' public as well as reacted to all more or less important events taking place in the republic. On the same day the correspondent of television Channel One, Ilyas Shurpayev, was found dead in the apartment he rented in Moscow. He was also Dagestani. "A signal about a fire in his apartment came an hour after midnight. Firefighters arrived and, putting out the fire, found the body of Shurpayev on the bed. A belt was strapped up on his neck," police said. http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12504159&PageNum=0

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