Radio presenter Sergei Aslanyan in hospital after being stabbed 20 times by attackers who lured him out of his homeA Russian journalist is in hospital after being lured out of his home and stabbed 20 times late on Monday night in the latest attack on a member of the press.Sergei Aslanyan, 46, works for Radio Mayak and spent 10 years as a presenter on Echo Moskvy, Russia's leading liberal radio station.Police sources said Aslanyan got a call... full story ![]()
Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who suffered brain damaged and lost a leg after a brutal assault that followed his campaigns against a highway project outside Moscow, has died. He was 55.
azstarnet.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who suffered brain damaged and lost a leg after a brutal assault that followed his campaigns against a highway project outside Moscow, has died.
foxnews.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who suffered brain damaged and lost a leg after a brutal assault that followed his campaigns against a highway project outside Moscow, has died. He was 55.
miamiherald.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
There were few tears and no wails of anguish at Mikhail Beketov’s farewell at Moscow’s House of Journalists. Instead, there was a heavy air of grim resignation, as the depressing realisation set in that another Russian journalist had paid the ultimate price for seeking out the truth.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 13 days ago)
RUSSIAN journalist and environmentalist Mikhail Beketov, who was beaten nearly to death in 2008, has died.
news.com.au (1 month and 16 days ago)

An opposition journalist from the Moscow Region who sustained permanent head trauma after a brutal beating five years ago died on Monday after chocking on a bit of food, his supporter told RIA Novosti.
rian.ru (1 month and 16 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian businessman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ordering the fatal beating of an investigative reporter.
boston.com (17 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian Cabinet member says his government won't protect Russian depositors who are losing money in Cyprus but may offer assistance to some Russian state companies.
boston.com (1 month and 23 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) -- A senior Russian Cabinet member says his government won't protect Russian depositors who are losing money in Cyprus but may offer assistance to some Russian state companies....
ap.org (1 month and 23 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia voiced strong skepticism Saturday about the U.S. autopsy on a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in Texas and demanded further investigation as thousands rallied in Moscow to support the Kremlin ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children....
ap.org (2 months and 25 days ago)
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