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rehe editor-in-chief of an independent Russian news website set himself on fire after searching his home in connection with an investigation into an opposition group and succumbed to his injuries. The Kosa-Press website of the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod reported on Friday that Irina Slavina set herself on fire in front of the police headquarters.
Investigators later confirmed his death. Her body was burned, but there was no “reason” to link her death to a police investigation, as she was only a witness. A few hours before her death, the journalist asked on the Facebook online service to “hold the Russian Federation responsible for my death”. A video posted on social media showed her being set on fire while sitting on a bench.
The website publishes investigative reports and reports on critics of President Vladimir Putin, as reported by supporters and friends of Slavina. This is rare in Russia, as regional media are often pressured by local authorities.
Slavina “died from her injuries,” the website said, her husband confirmed. The website could not be accessed a bit later. The journalist reported on social media Thursday that police and officials broke into her apartment early in the morning. They were looking for clues about links to the Open Russia opposition movement, which was founded by Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky and declared undesirable by the authorities on suspicion of inciting protests.
Consequently, the police confiscated her notebooks and computers, as well as laptops and cell phones from her husband and daughter.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalnyj described Slavina’s death as “terrible”. The accusations against them were fabricated, he said. “They drove them to suicide.” Local news website NN.ru reported that a vigil had been held on a street in memory of Slavina. One man held a sign that read “the state is killing.”
Navalnyj had collapsed on August 20 on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow. Two days later, at the insistence of his family and his supporters, he was transferred to the Charité University Hospital in Berlin for treatment; In Germany poisoning with a nerve chemical agent of the Novitschok group was found. Laboratories in France and Sweden confirmed this finding from a Bundeswehr laboratory.
The Russian government rejects the suspicion that Russian government agencies may have deliberately poisoned Navalny. The case has created considerable tension between Berlin and Moscow.
