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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:37 PM Oct 2017

Kremlin critic journalist stabbed at offices of Moscow news radio station

Source: The Telegraph

A Russian opposition journalist was in a medically induced coma on Monday after a man claiming a "telepathic" connection broke into a liberal radio station and stabbed her in the neck.

The stabbing of Tatiana Felgenhauer follows state television smear pieces against the radio station and a series of attacks that forced another Echo of Moscow host to flee the country.

Ms Felgenhauer, the well-known deputy editor of the station and an outspoken Kremlin critic, was in the Echo of Moscow offices when an unknown attacker stabbed her in the neck.

He had blinded a guard with pepper spray, before barging into the offices and running down the corridor to where she was, editor Alexei Venediktov told Novaya Gazeta newspaper.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/prominent-journalist-news-radio-station-112146004.html

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Kremlin critic journalist stabbed at offices of Moscow news radio station (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2017 OP
WOW , preview of things to come under Putin Jr. kacekwl Oct 2017 #1
Putin's method of dealing with "the disgusting, dishonest media." Trump is watching..belive me. nt TrollBuster9090 Oct 2017 #2
I'm sure RT will be all over it RhodeIslandOne Oct 2017 #3
the morons followers bluestarone Oct 2017 #4
I'm sure it was just a "mentally unstable" person. No connection to Putin. 7962 Oct 2017 #5
mentally unstable is bluestarone Oct 2017 #7
Who knows Bradical79 Oct 2017 #8
It's like if you're playing poker with someone, and they get a royal flush 3 hands in a row. Oneironaut Oct 2017 #9
Putin's body count continues to rise. GOP doesn't care. Coventina Oct 2017 #6
 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
8. Who knows
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 08:24 PM
Oct 2017

These sorts of propaganda campaigns can sometimes get some lunatic to do the work for them. Look at the Giffords shooting, for example. This is why influencers and politicians on the right use such violent rhetoric and imagery.

Oneironaut

(5,492 posts)
9. It's like if you're playing poker with someone, and they get a royal flush 3 hands in a row.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 09:09 PM
Oct 2017

It must be legitimate!

Coventina

(27,101 posts)
6. Putin's body count continues to rise. GOP doesn't care.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 07:21 PM
Oct 2017

They are enjoying the benefits of being Putin's puppet state.

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