Dmitry Chebotayev, a photographer for the Russian edition of Newsweek, was killed in a roadside bombing in Diyala province on Sunday, the Russian government has announced. U.S. News reporter Alex Kingsbury met Chebotayev in Baghdad in early March.
A veteran war photographer at age 29, Chebotayev said that whenever he traveled to Iraq he would tell his mother he was going to Chechnya so he wouldn't worry her. He was also helpful to journalists passing through checkpoints in Baghdad's International Zone, by speaking Russian with the soldiers from the Georgian Army who took over some of the posts this spring.
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