Chechen attackers brutalise Russian reporter amidst political tensions

A brutal assault has been launched on renowned investigative reporter, Yelena Milashina, by a group of masked men, shortly after landing in the Russian republic of Chechnya. She recounts a chilling ordeal, where she was seized, forced out of her car, savagely attacked with plastic pipes, her head ruthlessly shaved and doused in green dye within the proximity of the airport.

It is worth noting that Milashina has previously been targeted with death threats from the infamous leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. She had company on her trip – a lawyer by the name of Alexander Nemov, who too suffered injuries in the attack.

Their arrival at Grozny Airport was in anticipation of a court verdict for a mother of three, Zarema Musayeva, a vocal critic of Kadyrov, who was later handed a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence in a case seen by…