INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A veteran Russian state media journalist has been killed in an accident on a shooting range in Moscow-annexed Crimea, Russia's main Rossiya
one of Russia's main state television presenters, told Russian media that Babayeva would be "greatly missed."He said she was the "warmest
person, strongly rooting for Russia" and that she had "wanted to support our heroes.""Restless Sveta was a professional of the highest
standards with a bright journalistic biography," he added, using her nickname.The Kremlin also expressed sorrow at her loss, saying it was
"hard to believe" she had died and that we would be "greatly missed."Its spokesman Dmitry Peskov called her a "multi-talented journalist"
and an "unusually charming woman."He praised Babayeva, who was once part of a presidential pool of journalists and with whom he said the
Kremlin had worked "for many, many years."Born in Moscow in 1972, Babayeva's long career with pro-Kremlin media included a senior role at
the main Izvestia newspaper and postings in the United Kingdom and the United States for the RIA Novosti news agency
city of Simferopol since 2019.Russian authorities in occupied southern Ukraine also mourned her loss, with a Moscow-installed official in
