Kira Yarmysh told Interfax that there were about 30 attackers / (c) FBK

Alexei Navalny and the press secretary of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Kira Yarmysh reported an attack on FBK employees in Anapa, one person was hospitalized.

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"At the Anapa airport, a bunch of mummers, together with the police, attacked the FBK group," Navalny wrote on Twitter. He added : "They beat both men and girls. The police are helping them." "Artem Torchinsky @tema57, an FBK volunteer and @tvrain host, who was beaten at the Anapa airport, is being hospitalized," Navalny noted .

Kira Yarmysh told Interfax that there were about 30 attackers. "About 30 people attacked us at the Anapa airport. Alexey, his family and FBK employees are here. They kicked people, even when they fell, on the head, all over the body," she said, adding that the police did not respond to the incident promptly. "One of the FBK employees, Artem Torchinsky (anchor of Dozhd), has a broken temple. Doctors were called for him," Yarmysh said. "Six people were injured, including Navalny," she clarified to the agency.

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"At the Anapa airport, a bunch of mummers, together with the police, attacked the FBK group," Navalny wrote on his Twitter / (c) FBK

In an interview with Dozhd, Yarmysh said that the police intervened at the moment when Torchinsky "began to beat him so much that he was no longer visible." "They came up and started commanding that it was time to leave, that they should leave him alone. At the same time, people nearby were filming on cameras, although they were not journalists," she added. Torchinsky himself later told Dozhd that he was taken to the emergency room. Doctors announced that he did not have any fractures or serious injuries.

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Yarmysh specified that "the Cossacks attacked, about 10 people in dress uniform and the same number in regular clothes." Torchinsky added in a conversation with Dozhd that the Cossacks also attacked children who were part of the FBK group.

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said he would not like to comment on reports of an attack on Navalny without receiving information on the matter from various sources. He added: "I don't know whether there was an attack, if there was one, who carried it out, whether there were any subsequent appeals to law enforcement agencies" (quoted by Interfax).

The Russian Interior Ministry's Department for Transport in the Southern Federal District told Interfax-Yug that a scuffle involving a group of citizens waiting for a flight and Cossacks had occurred in the area adjacent to the Anapa airport building. "The identities of the participants in the incident are being established. Statements from the victims are being accepted," the agency's source said.

FBK employees have already filed a police report about the attack on them, Yarmysh said. "We filed a report about the attack and police inaction," she told Interfax.

Last Friday, May 13, Navalny reported that he and several FBK employees were detained by police in Krasnodar Krai, when they stopped a bus. At the time, he suggested that the detention was connected with the activities of the Prosecutor General's Office and Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika personally. Later, Navalny clarified that he and his associates were detained during Operation Anaconda. This is the standard code name of the Kuban State Traffic Safety Inspectorate for checking transit vehicles for weapons, explosives, explosive devices, wanted persons, and illegal migrants.

Navalny reported an attack on FBK employees at Anapa airport