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The Russian authorities yesterday faced demands to prosecute the attackers of a journalist branded a "traitor" by a youth organisation linked to the country's ruling party. Oleg Kashin, 30, a reporter for the Kommersant daily, was set upon by two unknown assailants late on Friday.

They apparently waited for him with a bunch of flowers outside the doorway of his apartment block in Moscow. Mr Kashin, who covered youth political movements for the newspaper and was one of its best-known reporters, was beaten, leaving him with a broken leg and jaw and a fractured skull. He remained in an induced coma in a hospital in Moscow yesterday. Read the story here

Editor’s Note: What is being purported to be video footage of the attack on Kashin was recently uploaded to YouTube.