Russian editor shot deat over crime reports

The chief editor of a newspaper in central Russia was shot and killed outside his home in what colleagues said today was a contract killing in retaliation for his paper’s coverage of organised crime.

Valery Ivanov, 33, was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Togliatti Review and a member of the city council in Togliatti, on the Volga River about 550 miles south east of Moscow.