Journalist Irina Slavina performed self -immolation near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod In Nizhny Novgorod, the creator and editor-in-chief of the independent online publication Kozapress Irina Slavina committed suicide. On the afternoon of October 2, she set fire to herself near the building of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The day before the journalist was a search.