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Journalist had reported attacks before

(21 Apr 2017) A prominent Russian journalist who died on Wednesday after being attacked had previously been targeted for his work, his editor said. Before his death, Nikolai Andrushchenko, a 73-year-old journalist at the Novy Peterburg newspaper, had been in a medically-induced coma for the six weeks following the attack on March 9. Andrushchenko's attackers have not been identified and investigators have not released any information about his case. Novy Peterburg's editor-in-chief, Denis Usov, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Andrushchenko had told his colleagues that unknown people had beaten him up before, demanding that he reveal his sources and details of his research. Usov added that Andrushchenko was found on the street with a broken skull and that the newspaper staff learned about the attack several days after it happened. Investigators have not contacted the newspaper, Usov said. Andrushchenko, a St. Petersburg city council member in the early 1990s, was among the founders of Novy Peterburg, where he made a name for himself writing about human rights issues and crime. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you... Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork