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Yuri Shchekochikhin, a Common card
Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin was a Soviet and later Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Yuri Shchekochikhin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Yuri Shchekochikhin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His last non-fiction book, Slaves of the KGB, was about people who worked as KGB ______.
Answer
informers. His last non-fiction book, Slaves of the KGB, was about people who worked as KGB informers. From the Yuri Shchekochikhin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Yuri Shchekochikhin. Yuri Shchekochikhin 68 · Christianization of Bulgaria 65 · Merikins 62 · Jean-Antoine Houdon 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
- As a journalist for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Shchekochikhin investigated apartment bombings allegedly directed by the Russian secret services and the Three Whales Corruption Scandal which involved high-ranking FSB officers and was associated with money laundering through the Bank of New York.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Yuri Shchekochikhin article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Yuri Shchekochikhin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://duma.gov.ru/, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
