A monument to Russian Journalist, Mikhail Beketov, who died of heart failure on 8 April this year, was opened in Khimki on 21 September. Beketov, the former editor of the independent newspaper Khimkinskaya Pravda, suffered a brutal assault in November 2008 because of his journalistic work and his death was a direct consequence of the injuries he had sustained. The President of the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), Vsevolod Bogdanov,attended the opening. Photos by RUJ's Svetlana Svistunova.
