BBC team under attack in southern Russia

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Source: BBC

A BBC team has been attacked in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan.

We had gone to investigate reports of Russian servicemen being killed near the border with Ukraine.

As we left a cafe and approached our car, we were confronted and attacked by at least three aggressive individuals.

Using physical violence the men grabbed our camera, smashed it on the road, and then escaped with it in a getaway car. During the scuffle the BBC cameraman was knocked to the ground and beaten.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29249642

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1. freedom of the press in Russia

Wonder if RT will cover this?

[davidpdx]

3. No, they'll just keep talking about those cookies

[pampango]

2. Apparently the BBC got off one story before they were attacked.

Or perhaps they were attacked because they got of one story.

Ukraine crisis: Forgotten death of Russian soldier


Konstantin Kuzmin died aged 29 after joining Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine

"He got a telephone call. He said it was from the commander of his army unit, who told him there was going to be an inspection and that everyone had to be back on base," Oksana recalls. "He left on 23 July. Three days later my brother called to say he was on the move again. It sounded as if he was frightened of something. 'I'm off to the south west! South-west Ukraine!' he said. I thought, perhaps, he meant the border area ... " she added.

"On 8 August we spoke again on the phone. But he was in a rush. He said to our parents 'Mama, Papa, I love you. Hi to everyone! Kiss my daughter for me…' Then, when he went to the border, or wherever it was he went, he told us not to call him. He would call us."

Oksana continued: "On 17 August the military commissar came to my parents and told them my brother had been killed." "He said a shell fired from Ukrainian territory had landed on Konstantin's vehicle. That's all we knew, until the coffin arrived. The official said my brother had been killed in military exercises on the border with Ukraine," she said.

"Do you believe the words you are telling me?" Oksana asked the official.

"No," he replied.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29249643

The soldier's date of death, August 12, was the date when the aid convoy crossed the border.

I wonder if this BBC team is still in Russia.