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[Elena Mikhailik]

Dear Colleague,

The name of the murdered journalist was Larissa Udina.  Information on her
could be found at www.yabloko.ru.  I am not sure, though, whether they have
anything in English.

Sincerely yours,

Elena Mikhailik

At 13:12 2/08/99 +1000, you wrote:
>                Dear Friends,
>
>                I am a member of the Canberra branch of the International
>PEN. The International PEN is an organisation of writers and journalists.
>Its aim is to highlight cases where writers and journalists are persecuted
>for expressing their ideas. Every year in Canberra we plant a tree in the
>memory of writers who have died in prisons or killed for exercising their
>right to freedom of speech. In Canberra there is a memorial walkway that has
>trees to commemorate Ken Saro Wiva, the Nigerian writer and dramatist,
>Robert Walker, an Aboriginal Australian writer who died in a Perth prison,
>Four Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor. This year we are
>planning to plant a tree in the memory of
>*       The Russian editor of a newspaper of who was killed in her office
>for exposing corruption in the government of a chess-loving President of a
>Republic in Russia; and
>*       Galina Staravoitova, who was murdered in St. Petersburg
>
>                I shall be grateful if you could send me any  information
>about the two women journalists. I am sorry that I don't even know the name
>of the first journalist. I shall be grateful if you can send me some
>references to their journalistic writing.
>
>                Thanks
>
>
>Subhash Jaireth
>
>
>