2010 Attack on Oleg Kashin
Three years ago, on the night of November 6, 2010, journalist Oleg Kashin was severely beaten near his own house on Pyatnitskaya Street in Moscow. Two strangers were waiting for Kashin at the fence, one of them was holding a bouquet of flowers in which an iron rod was hidden. Surveillance cameras recorded that one of the attackers held Kashin, and the second beat him with an iron bar for a minute and a half, inflicting 56 blows.