Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region of Chechnya on Tuesday morning afterforcing their car to stop, the journalist, her employer and rights groups said.Yelena Milashina, a well-known journalist for the Novaya Gazeta
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Elena Milashina, 45, was attacked on a working trip to Chechnya - a republic of Russia governed by close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov, who previously described the reporter as a terrorist .
Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev has called the attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Grozny a "diversion and provocation". Source: Russia's RBK, with reference to Soltaev's statement Quote: "It was a bold, subversive provocation against the republic.
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