Sergei Dubov

Sergei Dubov (russian: Серге́й Леонидович Дубов; 4 February 1943 – 1 February 1994) was a Russian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur. '' The Independent'' called him a "brilliant businessman".

Biography

Dubov graduated from the Moscow Poligraphical Institute (now the Moscow State University of Printing Arts) editorial department. He worked on TV and then for the newspaper ''Book Review''. He became chairman of the "New Times" publishing house, which published ''Vsyo Dlya Vas'', ''Novoye Vremya'', and ''International and Moscow Business Week''.

He was the first publisher in Russian of Viktor Suvorov's books ''Icebreaker'',Tale of the Great Victory and about Comrade Stalin, a protege of world Jewry.
/ref> ''Aquarium'', ''Day-M'' and others.

Death

He was murdered on 1 February 1994. The assassin waited in a phone booth, and when Dubov was going to his car in the morning shot him in the back of the head. Earlier, Dubov had received threats by telephone and by mail. There was a team of investigators from the Ministry of Interior, and the MUR (abbreviation for The Moscow Investigation Department) District police station established to investigate the murder. President Boris Yeltsin closely monitored the case. However, it has never been resolved.

See also

* List of unsolved murders

Notes and references

External links

* ''The Great Biographical Encyclopedia''. 2009.

''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'' Jan 1995

External links

ДУБОВ СЕРГЕЙ (1943—1994)

Дубов, Сергей Леонидович

Дубов Сергей Леонидович


* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070629072112/http://memorial.marshpamyati.org/2006/11/blog-post_2080.html Мемориал погибших журналистов
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Funeral of Sergei Dubov

On the morning of 1 February 1994, Sergei Dubov, president of the Novoye vremya publishing house, was shot dead outside the stairwell of his apartment block in north Moscow as he was leaving for work.




* ttp://www.verdidebatt.no/debatt/cat1/subcat4/thread116192/ Dødslisten Norsk Journalistlag (NJ) fortrenger
Murdering with Impunity in Russia: Authorities Fail to Prosecute the Murders of Seven Journalists

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1943 births
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1994 murders in Russia
20th-century Russian journalists
Assassinated Russian journalists
Deaths by firearm in Russia
Journalists killed in Russia
Russian media executives
Unsolved murders in Russia