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2010. Attack on Oleg Kashin
Five years ago, on the night of November 6, 2010, journalist Oleg Kashin was brutally beaten near his own house on Pyatnitskaya Street in Moscow.
Two criminals were waiting for Kashin at the fence, one of them held in their hands a bouquet of flowers in which the iron rod was hidden. CCTV cameras recorded that one of the attackers was holding Kashin, and the second beat him with an iron rod for one and a half minutes, inflicting 56 strokes. Doctors diagnosed a fracture of the lower leg, upper and lower jaws, brushes (including the traumatic gap of two phalanges of the finger), traumatic brain injury and multiple damage. Kashina was introduced into an artificial one, he underwent several operations, for a long time was in artificial respiration.
Five years later, the crime can be considered disclosed. On September 7, 2015, Kashincalled the names of the enclosed but him - the head of the guard of the mechanical factory of Danila Veselov and his two subordinates, Vyacheslav Borisov and Mikhail Kavtaskin. Contractors pointed to the Pskov governor Andrei Turchak as a crime customer. He wanted to take revenge on Kashin for a comment in LiveJournal. The attack was organized by the head of the Zaslon holding Alexander Gorbunov, the head of the Zaslon holding.
In early October, Kashin in an open letter to Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev directly accused them of covering Turchak . The Pskov governor himself for a long time did not comment on the results of the investigation, and then stated that his conscience was clean.