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Female Russian journalist Elena Milashina has hair shaved off, fingers broken and head doused with green dye in horrific attack while heading to human rights court case in Chechnya
Daily Mail ^ | 7/04/23 | Elena Salvoni, Will Stewart

Posted on 07/04/2023 8:27:47 PM PDT by Libloather

A leading Russian investigative journalist has been brutally attacked on a working trip to Chechnya - a republic of Russia governed by close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov who had previously described the reporter as a 'terrorist'.

Elena Milashina, 45, and lawyer Alexander Nemov - who was also savagely beaten - were stopped by armed and masked men as they arrived in the regional capital Grozny to attend a court case linked to human right abuses.

The pair received death threats and had guns pointed at their heads, according to reports, while Milashina's head was shaved and her fingers broken in a brutal assault.

The reporter, who works for the banned independent paper Novaya Gazeta, also received a head wound, passed out several times and was doused in green dye in the vile attack.

Mr Nemov, 35, was stabbed with a knife and received leg wounds, according to the human rights group Team Against Torture, but still intends to go to the trial the pair had travelled to the state to attend.

Kadyrov - sanctioned in the West over alleged human rights abuses - is one of Putin's strongest backers on the war with Ukraine.

He earlier labelled Ms Milashina a terrorist, one of those who were allegedly 'always destroyed' in his republic.

Rumours have swirled in recent days over his health amid claims he is suffering from acute kidney or liver problems.

Referring to the attack on Ms Milashina and Mr Nemov, the human rights group Memorial said in a statement on Telegram: 'They were brutally kicked, including in the face, threatened with death, had a gun held to their heads, and had their equipment taken away and smashed.

'While being beaten, they were told: 'You have been warned. Get out of here and don't write anything.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: alexandernemov; assault; chechnya; elenamilashina; elenasalvoni; fingers; journalist; jusseesmollet; kadyrov; media; ramzankadyrov; russia; willstewart
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She looks pretty rough.
1 posted on 07/04/2023 8:27:47 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Chechnya is a republic of Russia governed by close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured), who previously described the reporter as a 'terrorist'

2 posted on 07/04/2023 8:30:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Libloather

Poor woman. Don't ever expect muslims to act like humans.

3 posted on 07/04/2023 8:34:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Isn't that one of the guys on Duck Dynasty?

4 posted on 07/04/2023 8:35:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Libloather

Hair is the least of her worries.


5 posted on 07/04/2023 8:39:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Don’t expect Putin to, either.


6 posted on 07/04/2023 8:40:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Libloather
Here she is in happier times:


7 posted on 07/04/2023 8:41:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looking like an NGO tool who is involved in fomenting color revolutions.


8 posted on 07/04/2023 8:48:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Moslems??? She’s lucky it wasn’t her HEAD that was ‘shaved off’!


9 posted on 07/04/2023 8:51:36 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

10 posted on 07/04/2023 9:04:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: BenLurkin

Back in the day, my son’s girlfriend ran John Kerry’s Senate office. When I asked why they wouldn’t run him for President, they told me that John Kerry went out every night with an underaged girl.

What a POS.


11 posted on 07/04/2023 9:13:19 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: BenLurkin

Mooch and Lurch love her. Putin hates her.

I wash my hands on her, they can all keep her. Not touching it.


12 posted on 07/04/2023 9:23:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

She is an registered foreign agent.


13 posted on 07/04/2023 10:22:59 PM PDT by nickfrost1
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To: Libloather

If things continue as they are, then incidents like this will begin happening in the US.


14 posted on 07/04/2023 10:28:41 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Secret Agent Man
Mooch and Lurch love her. Putin hates her. I wash my hands on her, they can all keep her. Not touching it.

By that same logic:

"Hitler loved tea. Churchill hated tea. Therefore, tea is bad!"

Fallacious reasoning appealing to simple minds!

Regards,

15 posted on 07/04/2023 10:33:46 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

That is a low IQ comparison that you have made in your attempt to ridicule the above poster.

If American democratic leadership supports/supported her, that has a high degree of correlation and she most likely is a POS. Not always, but there’s a high probability. If the media is behind her as well I would say it’s 100%.


16 posted on 07/05/2023 5:25:50 AM PDT by zek157
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To: kiryandil

Ah Russians - just can’t get rid of that “inner Tartar”, can you?


17 posted on 07/05/2023 5:45:16 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail
Ah, globalist neocon warmongerers.

Just can't stop pining for "regime change" in every country - including the United States of Banana...


18 posted on 07/05/2023 6:16:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"Isn't that one of the guys on Duck Dynasty? "

Duck Caliphate, maybe.

19 posted on 07/05/2023 6:23:53 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: kiryandil
And you pine for the "glory" of your beloved Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where mass murder of "enemies of the State" was employed routinely.

Russia is just Rwanda with nukes and can't face it.

20 posted on 07/05/2023 6:26:10 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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