A Russian journalist was killed after a fire broke out outside a government building on Friday – an hour before his suicide on Facebook, he wrote, “Blame the Russian Federation for my death.”
Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the small local news outlet Koza Press, in front of the local branch of the Interior Ministry in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, about 260 miles east of Moscow.
About an hour before his death, Slavina wrote an inappropriate message on Facebook, instructing followers to blame the communist nation. The day before, he wrote that police raided his apartment in search of pro-democracy material.
Slavina, who ran a press shop that billed herself for “no censorship” and “no order from above,” said she was being investigated for her links to an open Russia opposition group that has been a vocal critic of the Kremlin. Is performed by. , Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
During the raid, Kops ransacked her apartment, hunted down “brochures, leaflets and accounts” belonging to the group and left her with her notebook, laptop and phone, as well as her daughter’s laptop and her husband’s phone, he wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
He wrote about the occasion, “I am without the means of production.”
Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed that it was opening a suicide investigation, but did not confirm his name in a statement.
The local branch of the Nizhny Novgorod region committee later said Slavina’s suicide had nothing to do with a search of her apartment the previous day.
However, supporters of the anti-Russian movement took to social media to say that Slavina had been under significant pressure from officials for years.
Opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov wrote on Instagram that “over the years security officials have made him a subject of endless persecution because of his protests (activities),” Dmitry Gudkov, an opposition politician, wrote on Instagram.
“What a nightmare,” another Kremlin critic, Ilya Yashin, wrote on Twitter.
“The police are entertaining themselves in all these cases. There are shows of men in masks – these are not games. The government is really breaking people mentally. ”
With post wire
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