Investigators formally charged Andrey Chernyshev, a department head in the administration of Khimki, a town near Moscow, with organizing an attempt to murder Konstantin Fetisov, a local ecology activist and journalist. Allegedly, Chernyshev hired several persons to beat Fetisov who had sharply criticized the Khimki authorities. As a result of an attack by two assailants with baseball bats, Fetisov had his skull fractured and is still unable to speak or write. Chernyshev denies wrongdoing, but his alleged accomplices were arrested and have confessed. Numerous other journalists and political activists (the most well-known of whom are Mikhail Beketov and Oleg Kashin) have also ended up brutally beaten after criticizing Khimki authorities.
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