Journalist With Russia's Ekho Moskvy Stabbed, Hospitalized

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Journalist With Russia's Ekho Moskvy Stabbed, Hospitalized
RFE/RL's Russian Service


Tatyana Felgengauer (file photo)

Russian journalist Tatyana Felgengauer, a deputy editor in chief and program host of the liberal Ekho Moskvy radio station, has been assaulted and stabbed in the station's offices in the center of Moscow.

Felgengauer was rushed into surgery following the October 23 attack, after which she was placed in a medically induced coma.

The male attacker, who has not been identified officially, was detained at the scene and taken into custody.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/journalist-radio-moskvy-stabbed-hospitalized/28810809.html

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A man walked into a Moscow radio station and stabbed a famous Russian journalist in the neck. How's how it happened
Meduza
10:32, 23 october 2017


Vitaly Ruvinsky / Ekho Moskvy / AFP / Scanpix / LETA

On October 23 around 12:45 p.m., Moscow time, Ekho Moskvy deputy chief editor Tatyana Felgenhauer was attacked inside the radio station’s studio.

Sergey Buntman, another deputy chief editor at Ekho Moskvy, told Meduza that the man entered the building from Novyi Arbat, where he sprayed gas from a cannister into the security guard’s face (injuring one of his eyes), and made his way to the 14th floor, where Ekho’s studio is located. According to the station’s chief editor, Alexey Venediktov, the assailant then stabbed Felgenhauer in the neck. “The attacker didn’t scream anything. Everything was quiet and he was silent. He walked up, grabbed her, and delivered the blow,” Buntman says. The radio station’s security guards then detained the man. Buntman says the assailant managed to injure one of the guards when they were subduing him, inflicting a small flesh wound.

Immediately following the attack, Felgenhauer was hospitalized at Moscow’s Sklifosovsky medical center. “When she got into the ambulance, Tanya was conscious and could walk, but it was obvious that she wasn’t in the best condition. They treated her for a cut on her neck,” Ekho journalist Olga Bychkova said. Venediktov later added that doctors did not believe Felgenhauer’s life was in danger. Irina Vorobyova, another Ekho host and one of Felgenhauer’s friends, later tweeted a statement by Sergey Petrikov, the director of the Sklifosovsky medical center: “Her condition is serious. She’s in the operating room. The surgery isn’t yet complete. It’s a knife wound to her neck. It’s good that they got her to the hospital so quickly.” By the time of this writing, the operation was finished, and Felgenhauer had been put into an induced coma.

Read more at: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/10/23/a-man-walked-into-a-moscow-radio-station-and-stabbed-a-famous-russian-journalist-in-the-neck-how-s-how-it-happened

Hang in there, Tanya. An editorial from Meduza
Meduza
08:46, 23 october 2017

On October 23, someone armed with a knife attacked our colleague, Ekho Moskvy journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer, wounding her in the neck. The attack took place right in Ekho’s radio station, in the studio’s guestroom. Doctors treating Tanya say her life isn’t in danger, but her condition is serious.

Like anyone working in the news, we’re accustomed to reading and writing every day about horrible things. ...

Read more at: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/10/23/hang-in-there-tanya-an-editorial-from-meduza

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Ekho Moskvy Editor Felgenhauer Expected to Survive Stabbing Attack
Oct 23, 2017 — 19:52

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Doctors said Felgenhauer had lost a lot of blood but her life was not in danger, Venediktov told Radio Svoboda.

The attacker, a 48-year-old dual Russian-Israeli citizen called Boris Grits, pepper-sprayed a guard at the building's entrance before taking an elevator to Ekho Moskvy's offices, the station said earlier on Monday.

“According to preliminary information, personal enmity served as the motive for the attack,” Moscow city police said in an online statement.

 St. Petersburg-based Channel 5 television aired a police interrogation with Grits in which he said he'd had a telepathic connection with Felgenhauer for 5 years.

“I was motivated by the fact that she has been sexually harassing me for 2 months," he said. "Every night, using telepathic means of contact, she entered and sexually harassed me.”

Channel 5 earlier reported that Grits had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The Investigative Committee has opened a murder case.

Continued at: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/ekho-moskvy-editor-felgenhauer-expected-to-survive-stabbing-attack-59341

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