Journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov were attacked in Grozny by the same people involved in the kidnapping of Yasin Khalidov, an employee of the Chechen Interior Ministry who was trying to leave Russia. In Novaya Gazeta, Milashina writes that she reported this to the investigator who interrogated her in the assault case.

According to the journalist, the Chechen policemen, to whom the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism in Omsk handed over Khalidov, who was detained there, and the unknown persons who attacked her and Nemov and brutally beat them, are “the same people.” Most likely, Milashina believes, these are employees of the transport riot police of Chechnya, where Khalidov served.

Earlier, a new criminal case was opened in Chechnya over the attack on journalist Milashina and lawyer Nemov. Recall that on July 4, about 10-15 masked men attacked them on the way from the airport in Grozny. They were on their way to the announcement of the verdict in the case of Zarema Musayeva, who was sentenced to five and a half years on trumped-up charges. Both victims received serious injuries.