‘All the signs of hooliganism’
It has been three months since the attack on the Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov. On 7 April, an unidentified person approached Muratov in the car of a Moscow-Samara train at the Moscow Kazansky railway station. With a cry “For our boys!”, the assailant spilled a mixture of red paint and acetone on Muratov. After a few minutes, the video of the attack filmed by the second assailant appeared on several Telegram channels. Muratov’s eyes suffered a chemical burn, all the passengers had to be moved to another car due to the smell of acetone, while the train was delayed an hour, which affected the entire station’s schedule. In other words, an act with severe consequences, cynically conducted at a high-risk object — this is how the attack would be described by law enforcement officers.