Alexey Shabunin (Photo: www.gazeta.39.ru)
July 5, 2009
The chief editor of the Dvornik (street sweeper), a regional newspaper in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, Alexey Shabunin, was attacked late Thursday, July 2, while he was riding a bicycle on his way home from a garage, RIA Novosti reports citing the local Interior Ministry department press service. The journalist is currently recovering from the assault in the local hospital.
According to the agency, an unknown hooded man hit him on the head with a steel rod. Despite a severe injury, Shabunin was able to seek medical aid and file a complaint at the local police station.
A criminal probe into the bodily blows has been opened and the investigators have already found the steel rod likely to contain the attacker’s fingerprints, the Regnum News agency adds.
Recalling his previous encounters with law enforcement officials, Alexey Shabunin tends to connect the assault with his professional activity. In early June, he was arrested and kept in detention for 4 days for a road accident he could not have possibly caused as he was in his office at the time, the journalist claims.
It is worth mentioning that the Dvornik owner, Arseniy Makhlov, was hospitalized in March 2008 after having been stabbed in the back by unknown attackers.
The paper is well-known for its high-profile independent coverage of local social and political events. However, no link to the journalist’s professional activity has been established so far.
Source: MosNews.com
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