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[2008-08-10]
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Two Journalists Killed in Tskhinvali Region
From media.ge
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Two journalists Alexander
Klimchuk and Grigol Chikhladze have been killed while covering the conflict
between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, the Echo of Moscow radio
station informs.
The journalists entered
breakaway S. Ossetia together with the Georgian armed forces. Alexander
Klimchuk ran Caucasus Press Images photo agency. Formerly he cooperated with
Komsomolskaya Pravda and Moskovskii Komsomolets, in addition to Itar-Tass
News Agency, Photoexpress studio and EPA agency. Klimchukâs photos were
published in the Newsweek magazine, The New York Times and Le Monde.
Grigol Chikhladze, according to the information posted on Caucasus Press
Images website, actively collaborated with the USA and the European mass
media.
And earlier it had been reported
that the NTV and Vesti TV camera crews faced fire in the breakaway republic
of S. Ossetia. The NTV producer Piotr Leonid, Vesti TV military correspondent
Alexander Sladkov, cameraman Leonid Losev and video engineer Igor Uklein have
been injured.
According to the Associated Press Turkish journalists-reporters and a
cameraman have been slightly injured during the war activities in the conflict
zone. They were taken to hospital. Their lives are out of danger.
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Source: media.ge
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