According to Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) independent NGO 128 journalists were killed in various conflict zones around the world in 2014. Remembrance day of journalists killed in the line of duty is observed on December 15 in Russia.
Remembering journalists killed in conflict zones
On December 15 Russia remembers journalists who died while performing their line of duty
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Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin, who worked for one of Russia’s largest state-run news agencies Rossiya Segodnya was killed in Ukraine on August 6, 2014
© Rossiya Segodnya news agency Andrei Stenin was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously
© ITAR-TASS/Artiom Geodakyan Igor Kornelyuk who worked for Russia’s radio and television broadcasting company VGTRK was killed near the city of Luhansk in Ukraine on June 17, 2014
© ITAR-TASS/ VGTRK press service Sound engineer Anton Voloshin was killed during shelling in Ukraine as well
© ITAR-TASS/VGTRK press service/TV screen photo/file image Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were awarded the Order of Courage posthumously on June 20
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev The passport of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, killed near Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine, where he was covering the conflict ahead of the presidential election
© EPA/POOL Andrei Mironov was killed in eastern Ukraine along with Andrea Rocchelli
© AP Photo/Stanley Greene, Noorimages Channel One cameraman Anatoly Klyan was killed in gunfire in Donetsk region on June 30, 2014. He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously
© ITAR-TASS/Channel One/file image Luke Somers, an American photojournalist was kidnapped over a year ago by al-Qaida. He was killed on December 6, 2014 during a US-led rescue attempt in Yemen
© AP Photo/Hani Mohammed Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan
© AP Photo/Peter Dejong American journalist James Foley was beheaded by Islamic State militants. James Foley was abducted in northern Syria in November 2012 while he was covering the civil war in the country
© AP Photo/freejamesfoley.org, Nicole Tung, File Journalist Steven Sotloff was beheaded by the Islamic State militants on September 2. Steven Sotloff went missing in Syria in 2013
© AP Photo French photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed while covering the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic on May 12, 2014
© AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui Journalist Mayada Ashraf was killed during clashes between Egyptian police and Muslim brotherhood supporters on March 28. She worked for the El-Dustour newspaper. Photo: Funeral of Mayada Ashraf in Cairo
© AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa