Nobel-winning newspaper editor attacked on Russian train

[iemanja]

Prominent Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov was attacked on a train Thursday, doused with a paint and acetone mixture that left his eyes burning, his newspaper said.

The attack came just days after Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was forced to suspend operations of the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper until the end of Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“They poured oil paint with acetone in the compartment. My eyes are burning terribly,” Muratov said in a brief report issued late Thursday by his newspaper.

The editor, who was on a train from Moscow to Samara, said the unknown assailant shouted, “Muratov, here’s one for our boys,” as he threw the paint.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/07/russia-muratov-novaya-gazeta-attack/

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This is the price for trying to exercise independent speech in Russia.

[Cha]

1. And, where we could be headed IF

trump's coup had succeeded.

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[iemanja]

2. Yes, and we're still in danger of that happening here.

[Cha]

3. I know.. all too well. So

Scary to have this LOOMINGO Over our heads.

I Hope More and More People Realize this could happen here.. and Care Enough to Vote Against It!.

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[2naSalit]

4. But that's just what...

Y'allqida want, to be able to attack people like that and get away with it.