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October 23rd, 2017 
Awake Goy Tatiana Felgengauer was stabbed in the throat by the assailant, Aleksey Venediktov reported. The attacker was subdued by the station’s security guards, he added. Felgengauer, 32, is the deputy editor-in-chief and host of one of the station’s talk shows. She first appeared on-air in 2005 as an intern correspondent and has been working for Echo of Moscow even since.
Ведущую Татьяну Фельгенгауэр ворвавшийся на Эхо мужчина. Ударил ножом в шею. Мужчина задержан.Татьяна госпитализирована.Ей поставлен катетер
— Алексей Венедиктов (@aavst) October 23, 2017
Venediktov later said Felgengauer’s life is not in danger.
“The doctors said she is in a serious condition, but her life is not under a threat,” he told Interfax.
Vitaly Ruvinsky, the editor-in-chief of the station’s website, posted a photo of the alleged attacker on his Twitter feed. Another photo apparently shows the moment of the assailant’s detention by the police.
Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the attacker had acted out of a personal grudge against Felgengauer. The assailant may be a foreign national, they added, without elaborating on his identity.
Echo of Moscow tweeted that the attacker’s name is Boris Grits. The station also posted a link to a blog, which it believes to belong to the attacker.
Writing alternatively in Russian and English, the author claims to be the victim of “telepathic sexual assault” by the Russian journalist. Felgengauer, the blog claims, “monitors me practically in real-time, knows everything I write or say.” The blog appears to be written by a person living in Israel.
The post dated October 14 includes an open threat: “In a few weeks I am coming to Moscow, and if this does not stop, the consequences may be very unpleasant.”
“One thing I know for sure: I am sick of Tatiana Felgengauer.”
Station staffer Olga Bychkova, who witnessed the attack, told RIA Novosti that the assailant first used a pepper spray to disable the guard manning the entrance to the station building. He also slashed the hand of another security guard as he was being apprehended.
According to Venediktov, the attacker didn’t say anything during the attack. Among his personal possessions seized by the police was a plan of the building in which the Echo of Moscow studios are located. The rooms were marked in English, he added.
A spokesman for the Russian General Prosecutor’s office called the attack “outrageous” and said the office will closely monitor the police investigation into it.
“That was an outrageous incident,” Aleksandr Kurennoy wrote on the office’s Telegram channel. “My words of support to staff at the radio station.”
Echo of Moscow is a popular Russian news and political talk radio station. It prides itself for giving a platform to many opposition voices, as well as those of pro-government activists.
Source Article from https://www.rt.com/news/407511-echo-moscow-knife-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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