TRAGEDY IN RUSSIA

sport TRAGEDY TRAGEDY IN RUSSIA The editor of the local portal set herself on fire in front of the police building: 'The Russian Federation is to blame for the death' Although passers-by tried to help her, she refused, and died before the ambulance arrived. By: Vlado VurušićPosted: October 3, 2020 5:04 pm Illustration Illustration Yuri Kadobnov / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail According to local media in Russia, on October 2, in front of the MUP building in Nizhny Novgorod, the editor of the local portal KozaPress, Irina Slavina , caught fire . Although passers-by tried to help her, she refused and, it was easily established, died of her burns before the ambulance arrived. Just before she poured gasoline and set herself on fire, Irina Slavina wrote on her Facebook profile that she "prays that the Russian Federation is to blame for her death," and in just a few hours thousands of people expressed their condolences over her death. RELATED NEWS Alexei Navalny after leaving the hospital DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT Russia has accused Germany of obstructing an investigation into Alexei Navalny's poisoning case TENSE RELATIONSHIPS Russia has expanded the list of Europeans banned from entering its territory A local Russian portal writes that the day before, the police searched her apartment on suspicion of cooperating with the Open Russia association, Putin's fugitive rival and convicted Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who is undesirable in Russia. After the search, Irina Slavina announced that the police had confiscated a pile of documents and a computer, as well as laptops used by her husband and daughter. The tap is normally repeatedly arrested for participating in the undeclared anti-regime protests, when it fined because it is the anniversary of the murder of an opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on the street walking with his portrait, as well as its publication on social networks against the plaque to Stalin , but also because posts that were assessed as endangering government and insulting government officials and the state. She was recently punished for, as she writes, spreading false information about the coronavirus pandemic in Russia.