High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin (Russian: ) (June 9, 1950, Kirovabad - July 3, 2003, Moscow) was a Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker of Russian parliament. Shchekochikhin made his name writing about and campaigning against the influence of organized crime and corruption. His last non-fiction book was about people who worked as KGB informers. A journalist of opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, he investigated Russian apartment bombings allegedly directed by the Russian secret services and Three Whales Corruption Scandal which involved high-rank FSB officers and was related to money laundering through the Bank of New York.