A Russian journalist died after setting herself on hearth outdoors of a authorities constructing on Friday — writing on Fb an hour earlier than her suicide “Blame the Russian Federation for my loss of life.”
Irina Slavina, the editor-in-chief of the small native information outlet Koza Press, self-immolated in entrance of the native department of the inside ministry within the metropolis of Nizhny Novgorod, about 260 miles east of Moscow.
About an hour earlier than her loss of life, Slavina penned a foreboding message on Fb directing followers guilty the communist nation. A day earlier than, she wrote that police raided her condominium seeking pro-democracy supplies.
Slavina, who ran a press store that billed itself as having “no censorship” and “no orders ‘from above,’” stated she was being probed for ties to the Open Russia opposition group, which is financed by a fierce critic of the Kremlin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Throughout the raid, cops swarmed her condominium, looking for “brochures, leaflets and accounts” tied to the group and left together with her notebooks, laptop computer and telephones, in addition to her daughter’s laptop computer and her husband’s telephones, she wrote on Facebook Thursday.
“I’m left with out the technique of manufacturing,” she wrote of the occasion.
Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed it was opening an investigation right into a self-immolation, however didn’t affirm her title in its assertion.
The committee’s native department within the Nizhny Novgorod area later stated that Slavina’s self-immolation had nothing to do with the searches carried out at her condominium on the day prior to this.
Nevertheless, supporters of the Russian opposition motion took to social media to say Slavina had been underneath important strain from authorities for years.
“Over the previous years safety officers have subjected her to infinite persecution due to her opposition (actions),” Dmitry Gudkov, an opposition politician, wrote on Instagram.
“What a nightmare,” one other Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin wrote on Twitter.
“All of those instances of police amusing themselves, these reveals of males in masks — these usually are not video games. The federal government is actually breaking folks psychologically.”
With Put up wires
