sentences:  Shchekochikhin graduated from the Journalism Department of Moscow State University in 1975.He worked as an investigative journalist at "Komsomolskaya Pravda" (1972–1980) and "Literaturnaya Gazeta" (1980–1996), and then as a deputy editor of the liberal newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" (from 1996).Beginning in the 1990s, he published many articles critical of the First and Second Chechen Wars, human rights abuses in the Russian army, state corruption, and other social issues.