In Moscow, a popular radio talk show host is in critical condition after a man burst into her Moscow radio station on Monday and stabbed her in the throat. The editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station says 32-year-old Tatyana Felgenhauer was not on the air at the time of the attack, which left the green room of the radio station splattered with blood.
Alexei Venediktov: “With full understanding of where he was going, he came though here, entered the room and stabbed Tatyana with a knife into the neck. That’s what we know. It is a penetrating injury, lots of blood. But Tatyana left on her own legs to an ambulance downstairs.”
Doctors say they’ve since placed Tatyana Felgenhauer on a ventilator and in an induced coma. The attacker was later arrested on charges of attempted murder. Russian state media claimed the man was motivated by “hooliganism” and had a personal fixation on Felgenhauer. Reporters at the station say they’ve been the target of repeated death threats after offering airtime to dissidents, including opponents of President Vladimir Putin.