page_title: Oleg Kashin
section_title: 2010 attack
hierarchical_section_title: Oleg Kashin / 2010 attack
caption_attribution_description: English: Pickets near Moscow militia headquarters on Petrovka, 38 st. to demand investigation of journalist Oleg Kashin attack Русский: Пикеты с требованием найти и наказать заказчиков и исполнителей нападения на журналиста Олега Кашина и сбор подписей под письмом президенту РФ с требованием обеспечить безопасность журналистов у ГУВД Москвы на Петровке, 38
context_page_description: Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin is a Russian journalist and writer known for his political articles.
context_section_description: On 6 November 2010, Kashin was assaulted by unknown attackers near his home in Moscow. He was hospitalized with broken jaw, fractured skull, broken leg and broken fingers, one of which later had to be amputated. Police are treating the attack as attempted murder. President Medvedev said that the assailants "must be found and punished". Prior to the attack, Kashin had been reporting on the proposal to build a highway through the Khimki Forest near Moscow.  His reporting covering youth political movements and political protests had also prompted aggressive responses from many pro-Kremlin groups, including the Young Guard of United Russia, a youth group associated with the United Russia political party, chaired by Vladimir Putin. This attack is one of the subjects of the 2012 documentary Putin's Kiss.
  In 2015, Kashin got acquainted with the materials of the investigation, including the testimony of the suspects, and accused Andrey Turchak of ordering the crime. This was done as a revenge for a blog post, which Turchak, then a Pskov Governor, commented on with the words "You have 24 hours to apologize. Time has gone." No charges were officially filed against Turchak. In 2017, he was appointed deputy chairman of the State Duma, and Putin awarded him with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd degree. On 27 November 2018, a full video of the interrogation of the alleged perpetrator was published, in which he said that the attack was organized by the co-owner of the "Mechanical Plant" company Alexander Gorbunov, and the customer was Turchak, who personally hurried the performers and personally demanded to break Kashin’s legs and arms so that he could not write.
caption: Pickets near Militia Headquarters, 38 Petrovka St., Moscow to demand an investigation into the attack on Oleg Kashin
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