Slain St. Petersburg journalist had reported attacks before
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A Russian newspaper editor says the prominent journalist who died on Wednesday after being attacked had been previously targeted for his work.
Nikolai Andrushchenko, a 73-year-old journalist at the Novy Peterburg newspaper, died Wednesday after being in a medically induced coma for six weeks after being beaten up on March 9.
Andrushchenko's attackers have not been identified and investigators have not released any information regarding his case.
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Novy Peterburg's editor-in-chief, Denis Usov, said Thursday that Andrushchenko had told his colleagues that unknown people had beaten him up before, demanding that he reveal his sources and details of his research.
Andrushchenko, a St. Petersburg city council member in the early 1990s, was among the founders of Novy Peterburg, where he made a name for himself writing about human rights issues and crime.