A private plane from Beslan, carrying journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov, who had previously been beaten in Chechnya, landed in Moscow. This was announced on the Telegram channel by the former editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station Alexei Venicetov (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent).
He wrote, “He sat in Moscow,” adding a photo of Milashina to the message.
According to media reports, the plane landed at Vnukovo airport.
Unknown attacked and brutally beaten journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov are in Chechnya. Masked gunmen stopped his vehicle on his way from the airport in Grozny and destroyed his equipment and documents. Ksenia Sobchak said that Milashina’s fingers were broken, she could not move, and Nemov “moved badly” and almost did not speak. The journalist and lawyer came to Chechnya for the announcement of the decision to Zarema Musayeva, the wife of a former judge of the Supreme Court of the republic.
Together with Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and former editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station Alexei Venicetov, they flew out to Moscow.
Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov commented the beating of journalist Milashina and lawyer Nemov without the names of the victims. According to the politician, the republican authorities will “solve”, he also instructed to find out who exactly attacked Milashina and Nemov. Chechen Press Minister Akhmed Dudayev spoke about the “characteristic handwriting of Western intelligence services”.
Former journalist Milashina said about the attack.