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Russian journalist dead – caught fire
Russian journalist Irina Slavina died after setting herself on fire in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Friday. “I beg you to blame my death on the Russian Federation,” she wrote on her Facebook page before taking her own life.
Irina Slavina set herself on fire in front of a Russian government building in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
Slavina was the editor-in-chief of the local news site Koza Press. A fire was set in front of the local branch of the Russian Interior Ministry in Nizhny Novgorod.
On Thursday, Slavina claimed on Facebook that police searched her apartment for material that could be related to the Open Russia movement, which is funded by former oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
According to Slavina, the police confiscated, among other things, notebooks, computers and her husband’s mobile phone from the apartment.
In connection with the death of Irina Slavina, the Investigation Committee of Russia launched a preliminary investigation. Later on Friday, the committee’s department in Nizhny Novgorod said the suicide had nothing to do with the search of Slavina’s apartment.
But opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov, in turn, wrote on Instagram that Irina Slavina has been under pressure from the Russian authorities for several years.
