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European Commission concerned over attacks on journalists in Russia

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The European Commission expressed on Monday “a very profound concern” over the amount of attacks on journalists in Russia.

The European Commission expressed on Monday “a very profound concern” over the amount of attacks on journalists in Russia.

Early on Saturday, Oleg Kashin, a journalist at the respected Kommersant daily, was severely beaten by unidentified assailants near his house in Moscow. He suffered severe head and leg injuries and is currently in an induced coma. Reports also say he had a finger cut off.

In 2008, Mikhail Beketov, the editor-in-chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper, was severely beaten by unidentified attackers.  He is now confined to a wheelchair.

Both men had written extensively about a grassroots campaign to stop the construction of a road through a forest near Moscow.

“We expect to see the guilty brought to trial,” European Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen said.

On Monday, surveillance camera footage of the attack on Kashin appeared on a Russian new websites. Police are looking into how the video was leaked to the media.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been one of the most dangerous countries for reporters with scores of journalists being attacked and beaten every year.

MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti)

 

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