A Russian reporter whose beating has outraged the nation says in his first interview after the attack that Russia's media freedom is shrinking.
Oleg Kashin, a reporter for top business daily Kommersant, was savagely beaten by two thugs outside his apartment building in Moscow earlier this month. He suffered numerous fractures and spent days in a drug-induced coma to reduce his pain.
Kashin said in an interview broadcast by Kommersant radio Monday that he doesn’t know who ordered the attack.
Kashin was the latest in a line of journalists and activists to be assaulted in Russia, which international media watchdogs rank among the world’s most dangerous for reporters.
