Larisa Yudina
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Larisa Yudina (November 22, 1945 - June 8, 1998) was a journalist and the editor of the opposition newspaper, Sovietskaya Kalmykia Sevodnya (Soviet Kalmykia Today). She was found dead on 8 June 1998, with multiple knife wounds and a fractured skull, in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia.
Prior to her death, she had published articles accusing Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of Kalmykia, of corruption. Three men were convicted in connection with the murder, but the names of those who ordered the killing remain unknown.
Because her newspaper (still run by her widower) is banned in Elista, it is printed elsewhere and collected by car for distribution. It was on her return from one of these trips that she was murdered. Two of the men who confessed to the murder, and were imprisoned, were aides to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. However, no proof has yet been found that Kirsan himself ordered the crime.
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