Yuri Shchekochikhin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yuri Shchekochikhin
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jun 9, 1950(1950-06-09)
Age	74
Birthplace	Ganja
Country	Azerbaijan
Horoscope	Gemini

Yuri Shchekochikhin Biography

Yuri Shchekochikhin is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 9, 1950 in Ganja, Azerbaijan.

Shchekochikhin graduated from the Journalism Department of Moscow State University in 1975. He worked as an investigative journalist at Komsomolskaya Pravda (1972–1980) and Literaturnaya Gazeta (1980–1996), and then as a deputy editor of the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta (from 1996). Beginning in the 1990s, he published many articles critical of the First and Second Chechen Wars, human rights abuses in the Russian army, state corruption, and other social issues.

In the summer of 1988, Shchekochikhin published an interview with a lieutenant colonel of the militia Aleksander Gurov, in which the existence of organized crime in the Soviet Union was first publicly stated. That brought fame to both Gurov (who became the head of the 6th Agency of the MVD of the USSR which struggled against organized crime) and Shchekochikhin.

Yuri Shchekochikhin Net Worth

Yuri Shchekochikhin is one of the richest Journalist from Azerbaijan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yuri Shchekochikhin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Щекочи́хин , IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɕːɪkɐˈtɕixʲɪn] ; 9 June 1950 in Kirovabad (now Ganja, Azerbaijan) – 3 July 2003 in Moscow) was a Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament. Shchekochikhin made his name writing about and campaigning against the influence of organized crime and corruption. His last non-fiction book, Slaves of the KGB, was about people who worked as KGB informers.

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Shchekochikhin died suddenly on 3 July 2003 after a mysterious 16-day illness. It was officially declared that he died from an allergic Lyell’s syndrome. His medical treatment and his post-mortem took place at the Central Clinical Hospital, which is “tightly controlled by the Russian Federal Security Service because it treats top-ranking Russian officials”. His relatives were denied an official medical report about the cause of his illness, and were forbidden to take specimens of his tissues for an independent medical investigation. Journalists of Novaya Gazeta managed to send his tissue specimens to “major foreign specialists”. The experts did not reach any definite conclusion. This caused widespread speculation about the cause of his death, especially since another member of the Kovalev commission, Sergei Yushenkov, was assassinated the same year and the legal counsel and investigator of the commission, Mikhail Trepashkin, was arrested by Russian authorities.

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Yuval Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Azerbaijan. Yuri Shchekochikhin celebrates birthday on June 9 of every year.

Shchekochikhin died suddenly in July 2003 from a mysterious illness a few days before his scheduled departure to the United States, where he planned to meet with FBI investigators. His medical documents, according to NG, were either lost or destroyed by authorities. The symptoms of his illness fit a pattern of poisoning by radioactive materials and were similar to the symptoms of Nikolai Khokhlov, Roman Tsepov, and Alexander Litvinenko. According to Litvinenko and news reports, the death of Yuri Shchekochikhin was a politically motivated assassination.