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Igor Sedykh, journalist

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Igor Sedykh, Geneva-based Russian journalist who in 2009 was awarded the Swiss-Russian Cooperation award for journalism at the World Association of Russian Press congress held in Lucerne, died Friday 12 March in Geneva, his widow, Barbara Sedykh, announced.

Sedykh began his career with the monthly Sa Rubeschom, worked in Geneva as a correspondent for the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, and most recently he was known for his reporting for Kommersant from Geneva on Russian affairs, war and arms-related topics. His articles were often picked up elsewhere in other languages.

Sedykh was a longtime member of the Swiss Foreign Press Association.

Links to other sites: Cooperation Council Switzerland-Russia, Kommersant, Medecins sans frontieres

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News story, GenevaLunch, 13 March 2010.

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