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Personal history
Igor Domnikov was 42 when he was murdered. He worked as a reporter and special-projects editor for the Moscow-based newspaper, the Novaya Gazeta. Dominikov mostly wrote about culture and education during his time at the paper. He was married with no children.

Career
Igor Domnikov was a journalist for the Moscow paper Novaya Gazeta, published twice weekly. He was a reporter and special projects editor who mostly wrote on the topics of culture and education. He worked for the Novaya Gazeta until his death in 2000.

Death
Igor Domnikov was attacked on May 12, 2000 in the entryway of his apartment building. According to several sources, at least one assailant struck him in the head numerous times with a hammer and left him lay in a pool of blood. He was found by a neighbor and taken to the hospital with severe injuries to the skull and brain. They did surgery on him immediately, but he was in a coma for the two months following, until he died on July 16 in the Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute in central Moscow. He is survived by his widow. In August 2007, five members of a gang of notorious criminals were convicted for the murder of Domnikov. They were sentenced to prison terms varying from 18 years to life for the Domnikov's murder and several other crimes. From the start, Domnikov's colleagues and the police were under the impression the attack was related to his professional activity at the newspaper. It was also believed for a time that the assailant mistook Domnikov, who covers social and cultural issues, for a Novaya Gazeta investigative reporter named Oleg Sultanov, who lives in the same building. Sultanov said he had received threats from the Federal Security Service in January for his reporting on corruption in the Russian oil industry. On May 8, 2013 and arrest was made in Moscow of a local businessmen, Pavel Sopot, for organizing the brutal attack that killed Dominikov. The pinpointed murderer has yet to be identified.

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Koïchiro Matsuura, director general of UNESCO at the time, said, “Violent acts against journalists are attacks on freedom of expression and violations of the right - enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media”.

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