WORLD BRIEFING / RUSSIA
A newspaper employee in a Moscow suburb died after being beaten near his home, his editor said, the latest in a string of attacks on journalists in Russia.
Sergei Protazanov was found by a passerby Sunday on a sidewalk in the town of Khimki, said Anatoly Yurov, editor of the newspaper Grazhdanskoye Soglasiye.
Protazanov, who had a prosthetic arm and worked as a page designer for the paper, died at home a day after being released from a hospital, Yurov said.
The RIA Novosti news agency reported that police denied that Protazanov had been beaten, saying that he died from accidental poisoning.
Yurov said six journalists had been severely beaten in Khimki in the last two years. He said Protazanov had been compiling an issue that included reports on alleged falsifications in local mayoral elections, and he linked the attack to Protazanov’s work.
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