Croatia police charge two for wartime killing of Russian reporters
23 February 2021By AFP
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Croatian police on Tuesday pressed charges against two former rebel Serb policemen for killing two Russian journalists during the country’s 1990s war, that claimed lives of more than 20 reporters.
Viktor Nogin and Gennadiy Kurinnoy, working for the then Soviet state television, were shot dead by a member of rebel Serb police force on September 1, 1991 in central Croatia, a police statement said.
Members of the rebels’ unit opened fire at a vehicle with diplomatic plates in which Nogin, 43, and Kurinnoy, 41, dressed in civilian clothes, were returning from reporting in a war zone, it said.