On 17 October 1994 Dmitry Kholodov, an investigative reporter for the Moscow-based newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, was killed in a bomb blast at the newspaper’s offices. Dmitry Kholodov, who had been investigating mafia connections with the military, was killed when he opened a briefcase he had been led to believe contained secret documents exposing military corruption.
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