MOSCA – He had turned 34 on Tuesday Rostislav Igorevich Zhuravliovthe military correspondent of the Russian news agency Ria Novosti killed today by shelling along the front line in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, unilaterally annexed by Moscow last September. He leaves behind a wife and two children. He wasn’t just a journalist, he was a militant.
Born into a military family in what was then Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, the capital in the Urals, after studying at the Ural State Mining University, Zhuravliov had served in the ranks of the Russian armed forces where he specialized as “commander of a motorized rifle squad on an infantry fighting vehicle”.
Nationalism
After militating in the nationalist movements founded by the deceased