Independent russian radio-host gets knife in throat after Kremlin calls her a US stooge.

[DetlefK]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-knife-in-the-throat-nearly-silences-a-top-independent-broacaster-in-moscow

The radio station’s security captured the attacker and handed him over to police. The assailant was a middle-aged man dressed in black clothes. Fortunately, an ambulance arrived within minutes and Felgenhauer was rushed to surgery, which appears to have saved her life.

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“Tania is the face and voice of Echo of Moscow, each of us feels stabbed this morning,” Echo’s international observer Tonia Samsonova told The Daily Beast. “Tania is the key reporter covering anti-Putin protests; it was the state that has previously inspired the hateful, aggressive public attitude against our journalists.”

In fact earlier this month the Kremlin-controlled television station Rossia-24 accused Felgenhauer of working for the U.S. State Department in a show called “Echo of Gosdep” (a Russian abbreviation for the U.S. State Department.

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“I do not want to hear any ritual words from the Kremlin’s mouthpieces–– they have said too many, after every murder of a politician or a reporter!” Vladimir Varfolomeyev, editor and presenter at Echo of Moscow, told The Daily Beast. “It is their actions that we are watching. Officials condemn our reporters as enemies of Russia. This policy feeds violence.”

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Yulia Latynina, another famous journalist at Echo of Moscow had to leave the country last month after a series of attacks.
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Two years ago Karina Orlova, another presenter at Echo of Moscow, had to leave the country after death threats.

In Moscow people say that there are only three options left: to cope with the regime as it is, to fight it, or to flee country.

The other possibility is to die fighting.

Russia’s fearless crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment block 11 years ago. Natalia Estemirova, a reporter and human rights defender, was kidnapped and killed in Chechnya seven years ago.

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1. This will happen here if tRump has his way...