# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-shchekochikhin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:07.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-shchekochikhin"
name: "Yuri Shchekochikhin"
slug: "yuri-shchekochikhin"
description: "Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin was a Soviet and later Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament. Shchekochikhin wrote and campaigned against the influence of organized crime and corruption. His last non-fiction book, Slaves of the KGB, was about people who worked as KGB informers."
tagline: "Russian journalist (1950-2003)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-06-09"
deathDate: "2003-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.7677824267782427
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump