Editor-in-chief of local newspaper heavily beaten in Sochi

Svetlana Kravchenko
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0400

On Monday, April 26, at 3:00 p.m., in the entrance of No. 34 in the Pirogova Street in Sochi, an attack was committed on Arkadi Lander, editor-in-chief of the Sochi-based newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local); he was severely beaten. The journalist is sure that it was an attempt to kill him because of his professional activities.