International News Safety Institute

02 March 2007

Ivan Safronov

Incident

Ivan Safronov

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Safronov, a military affairs writer, fell from a fifth-floor window on Friday at the Moscow apartment block where he lived.

His newspaper said at the time of his death he was investigating reports of alleged Russian plans to sell sophisticated missiles to Iran and fighter jets to Syria, via Belarus. Prosecutors quoted by Russian media say they are investigating the possibility that he was "driven to suicide".

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