Biography of Yuri Shchokochikhina

The biography was born on June 9 in Kirovabad. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov a journalistic career began at the age of 17 the first publication - in the Moscow Komsomolets. B - led the scarlet Svorka in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, where he was engaged in teenage problems. From July, he was the editor of the investigation department in the Literary Newspaper.

He worked as deputy chief editor and editor of the investigation department in Novaya Gazeta. Among the main topics of the publications of Shchokochikhin in the years are the state of the Russian army, the liberation of prisoners and hostages in Chechnya, corruption in state authorities, and social problems. In Yuri Shchekochikhin, the author and presenter of the “Journalistic Investigation” program “Special Brigade”, the program was removed from the air as “a destabilizing atmosphere in the country”.

Shchokochikhin began political activity in the year when he was elected People's Deputy of the USSR from one of the electoral districts of the Luhansk region. In the became a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation from the Yabloko faction, he entered the State Duma of the third convocation on the list of Yabloko. Shchekochikhin was a member of the State Duma Security Committee held the post of deputy chairman of the committee in the State Duma of the third convocation and the corruption commission in state authorities.

He considered the problems of organized crime, including adolescence crime, was the author of a number of acute publications on this subject. Was an expert of the UN on organized crime issues. He was the president of the International Fund in support of the young creative intelligentsia - in the last years of his life, Shchokochikhin investigated the “furniture” case of “three whales” and accompanying the conflict between law enforcement agencies.

He demanded the resumption of this stopped case in the Prosecutor General. B - received anonymous calls with threats. Sergei Sokolov wrote that the investigations of Shchekochikhin, similar to the case of Minister Adamov, the case of money laundering through the Bank of the New York, the case of "three whales" and a dozen others, "touched the interests of corrupt officials of the highest level." Shortly before his death, in - gg.

Shchekochikhin was a member of the “Public Commission for the investigation of the circumstances of the explosions of houses in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk and conducting exercises in the city of Ryazan in September” under the leadership of Sergei Kovalev. Yuri Shchekochikhin was one of the key figures of Komsomolskaya Pravda, where he led the scarlet sail section. The heading has become a launching pad for magazine lovers; Under the patronage of Shchekochikhina, in particular, Evgeny Dodolev worked.

Shchokochikhin - author of plays, cinemas, prose works. One of the directions of his work was teenage crime. The author of the book “Slaves GB. XX century. Religion of betrayal ”, year. He worked as a journalist of Novaya Gazeta. In one of the articles of the year, he noted how the month of participation in the operation in Chechnya in the year was fierce the worldview of fighters with professional crime, who followed the orders of the leadership.

During the study, during the study in two laboratories, two pharmaceutical ingredients of phenol, lidocaine, which should not be in the human body, were discovered. In early April, lawyer V. said the representative of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office that “it is planned to conduct a whole range of investigative-operational measures, including a number of complex comprehensive examinations with the involvement of foreign experts from expert institutions.” In September, the exhumation of the body of Shchekochikhin was carried out and an examination was appointed on the fact of his death.

According to Oleg Kalugin, Shchekochikhin, perhaps, was poisoned by Polonia.