If there were no precedents for the suspicious death of the Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, it might be easier to believe his fall from a fifth-floor window on March 2 was the suicide officials initially said it was. But too many other journalists working on sensitive stories have met violent ends in Russia.
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the testimony of family and friends that he had never seemed suicidal, and the circumstances surrounding his fall from the window — with his hat and oranges he had purchased scattered on the stairwell below — strongly suggest that it was not an accident.
