Rus gazeteci Moskova'da dövüldü
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Russian Journalist Beaten in Moscow
11/08/2010 10:24:33
MOSCOW — A journalist for the liberal daily newspaper Kommersant wasseriouslyinjuredon Saturday morning in an attack that his editor said waslikelyconnectedto his work.
Oleg Kashin, 30, was placed in anartificialcomain a Moscow hospital with injuries that include aconcussion, a brokenjaw,skullfractures, fractures in both of his legs and broken fingers, the newspaper reported on Saturday.
Mikhail Mikhailin, the newspaper's editor, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that he believes the attack was related to Mr. Kashin'sassignment—coveringyouth political movements and protest actions,amongother political themes. Mr. Kashin was carrying money and an iPhone at the time of the attack, but nothing was stolen, he said.
"The thing thatbothersme is that at the moment of the beating, they broke his fingers,' Mr. Mikhailin said. "It is completelyobviousthat the people who did this did not like what he was saying and what he was writing. I don't know whatspecificallythey did not like, but Ifirmlyconnect this with his professional activities.'
Mr. Kashin's newspaper ismainstreamby comparison, and has good contacts in the government,securingsuchscoopsas a much-scrutinizedexclusiveinterview with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin which ran this summer.Unlikemany of the Russian journalists who have been targeted in recent years, Mr. Kashin works for a newspaper that is popular among Moscow's elite. The Kremlinrespondedwithalacrityon Saturday, announcing around lunchtime that President Dmitri A. Medvedev had ordered Russia's generalprosecutorandinteriorminister to personallysupervisetheinvestigation. Mr. Medvedev also commented on the attack on his Twitter feed.
"The criminals must be found and punished,' it read.
Russian journalists have been the subject of repeated attacks inrecentyears, but in mostcasesthe investigations go nowhere.
Noarresthas been made in themurderof Natalya Estemirova, who investigatedviolencein the north Caucasus for theoppositionnewspaper Novaya Gazeta, or in thesavagebeating of Mikhail Beketov, whodocumentedcorruptionin the Moscowsuburbof Khimki for a local newspaper.
Mr. Mikhailin said the beating will test the government'swillingnesstofollow upon violence against journalists.
"I want to see whether, starting in the morning, the federal channels will report on what happened to Oleg Kashin,' Mr. Mikhailin said in his radio interview. "Will they close their eyes to what happened with Oleg? That is what interests me.'
Roughlyan hour after the attack, the journalist's next-door neighbor, Yelena Pogrebizhskaya, a well-known musician, wrote on her blog that two men were waiting for Mr. Kashin outside his apartment building last night with a bouquet of flowers. She said it appeared he had been beaten with objects, not withfists.
Rus gazeteci Moskova'da dövüldü - Russian Journalist Beaten in Moscow
MOSCOW — A journalist for the liberal daily newspaper Kommersant wasseriouslyinjuredon Saturday morning in an attack that his editor said waslikelyconnectedto his work.
Oleg Kashin, 30, was placed in anartificialcomain a Moscow hospital with injuries that include aconcussion, a brokenjaw,skullfractures, fractures in both of his legs and broken fingers, the newspaper reported on Saturday.
Mikhail Mikhailin, the newspaper's editor, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that he believes the attack was related to Mr. Kashin'sassignment—coveringyouth political movements and protest actions,amongother political themes. Mr. Kashin was carrying money and an iPhone at the time of the attack, but nothing was stolen, he said.
"The thing thatbothersme is that at the moment of the beating, they broke his fingers,' Mr. Mikhailin said. "It is completelyobviousthat the people who did this did not like what he was saying and what he was writing. I don't know whatspecificallythey did not like, but Ifirmlyconnect this with his professional activities.'
Mr. Kashin's newspaper ismainstreamby comparison, and has good contacts in the government,securingsuchscoopsas a much-scrutinizedexclusiveinterview with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin which ran this summer.Unlikemany of the Russian journalists who have been targeted in recent years, Mr. Kashin works for a newspaper that is popular among Moscow's elite. The Kremlinrespondedwithalacrityon Saturday, announcing around lunchtime that President Dmitri A. Medvedev had ordered Russia's generalprosecutorandinteriorminister to personallysupervisetheinvestigation. Mr. Medvedev also commented on the attack on his Twitter feed.
"The criminals must be found and punished,' it read.
Russian journalists have been the subject of repeated attacks inrecentyears, but in mostcasesthe investigations go nowhere.
Noarresthas been made in themurderof Natalya Estemirova, who investigatedviolencein the north Caucasus for theoppositionnewspaper Novaya Gazeta, or in thesavagebeating of Mikhail Beketov, whodocumentedcorruptionin the Moscowsuburbof Khimki for a local newspaper.
Mr. Mikhailin said the beating will test the government'swillingnesstofollow upon violence against journalists.
"I want to see whether, starting in the morning, the federal channels will report on what happened to Oleg Kashin,' Mr. Mikhailin said in his radio interview. "Will they close their eyes to what happened with Oleg? That is what interests me.'
Roughlyan hour after the attack, the journalist's next-door neighbor, Yelena Pogrebizhskaya, a well-known musician, wrote on her blog that two men were waiting for Mr. Kashin outside his apartment building last night with a bouquet of flowers. She said it appeared he had been beaten with objects, not withfists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/world/europe/07russia.html?ref=world