russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize 2021, she was attacked this Thursday by an unidentified person who threw paint in her face. He was about to board a long-distance train in Moscow.
“When I entered my compartment, paint was thrown at me. My eyes are itchy,” he wrote on the Telegram channel of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, which Muratov has been running since 1993.
Muratov announced that the departure of the train to Samara in the south of the country was delayed due to the intense smell of paint in the car. I will try to wash“, he wrote in the accompanying comment a selfie in which she appears with a completely red face and hair, as well as her arms and clothesand also the table and bed in his compartment.
According to the journalist, the attacker shouted: “Muratov, here for our children“. Supposedly the aggressor was talking about the Russian soldiers killed in the invasion of Ukraine, which he started on February 24.
These losses will be “significant”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov admitted on Thursday. The Department of Defense has described it as a “tragedy”, although it has reported only 1,351 deaths so far.
early march Muratov calls for “unconditional” ceasefire” and acknowledged the threat of a nuclear war between Russia and NATO, then announced that the Nobel Peace medal was handed over to a foundation to help Ukrainian refugees.
Russia’s last independent media outlet, ‘Nóvaya Gazeta’, announced that it was temporarily shut down at the end of March due to warnings from the Russian communications regulator and pressure that caused it to stop airing the contest weeks ago.