The Guardian
The story is still developing (which is why this article is short). Best of luck to you Tatyana.A well known Russian journalist is in hospital after being stabbed in the neck by an intruder at work.
Tatyana Felgenhauer, the deputy editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station, was attacked on Monday lunchtime at the radio station’s studios in central Moscow.
“A man with a knife broke into the radio station and stabbed Tatyana Felgenhauer in the neck. She has been hospitalised,” said Alexei Venediktov, the station’s editor-in-chief told Interfax.
“Tanya’s in hospital, her condition is serious but not critical, the attacker has been apprehended,” wrote Vitaly Ruvinsky, Ekho’s website editor, on Facebook. He posted photographs of police detaining a man, apparently the attacker, and of spots of blood on the floor.
Other Ekho employees reported that the attacker had used pepper spray on a security guard in order to gain entrance to the radio studio, on Novy Arbat street in central Moscow.
Ekho Moskvy is one of the few outlets for independent journalism in Russia. It features reports and discussions sharply critical of the Kremlin, despite being owned by the media arm of the energy giant Gazprom. Felgenhauer co-hosts a morning discussion show on the station.
The attacker’s motivation was not immediately clear.
More to follow ...
