Adlan Khasanov ( 25 May 1970 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian Chechen

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, killed in action in

Grozny Grozny (, ; ) is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 328,533 — up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Russian Census, 2002 ce ...

.Reuters Photojournalist Adlan Khasanov Killed With President in Chechen Bomb Blast
/ref> Khasanov studied journalism at the Chechen State University, and later worked in newspapers as a reporter and photographer. He also worked for

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and

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. He was killed during a 9 May

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at the "Dynamo" stadium in Grozny, in a bomb blast carried out by Chechen separatists in an attempt to eliminate Kremlin-backed Chechen President

Akhmad Kadyrov Akhmat-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (23 August 1951 – 9 May 2004) was a Chechen politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak ...

. The stadium had undergone remodeling and reconstruction, and, according to reports, a bomb placed inside a concrete part of the structure escaped security detection sweeps.

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Workshop in Memory of Reuters Photojournalist Adlan Khasanov

Report on Khasanov's death
- IFEX 1970 births 2004 deaths Chechen journalists Journalists killed while covering the Chechen wars Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty people Reuters people Russian photojournalists War photographers Russian people of Chechen descent 20th-century Russian journalists {{Europe-journalist-stub

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