Russia bids farewell to slain liberal deputy

1998 - Ashen-faced Russian politicians bade farewell to murdered liberal parliamentarian Galina Starovoitova and vowed her killers would not frighten them into abandoning democratic reforms. Former prime ministers Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yegor Gaidar and Sergei Kiriyenko stood grimly beside Starovoitova’s open coffin in the Marble Hall of the Ethnographic Museum in Russia’s second city and former imperial capital, St. Petersburg.