A reporter for state run Channel One, Ilyas Shurpayev was found with stab wounds and a belt around his neck in his Moscow apartment. A fire had been started in the unit to possibly cover up the murder scene.
Russian prosecutors have opened a murder investigation for this case. There is no motive for the killing at this time.
Russia is not a safe place to be a reporter. In recent years there have been more than a dozen contract style killings of reporters in the nation. The police have yet to get a conviction for one of these crimes.
Ilyas Shurpayev was a native of Dagestan province. His work took him throughout the North Caucasus region where violence is commonplace. He was 32 years old.
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