Irina Babloyan

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Zhivoy Gvozd, Journalist

Incident date: August 15, 2023

Attack type:

• Attempted murder

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Insider

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

The journalist of Echo of Moscow Irina Babloyan moved from Moscow to Tbilisi in mid-October and stayed at the hotel King Tamar. In the evening of October 25, she felt not very well, and woke up the next morning with severe weakness and dizziness. On October 26, the hand and foot syndrom appeared — the palms of her hands became purple and burned as if «one was holding fire in hands», and the same was true of her feet. Despite these strange first symptoms, Irina decided not to give up her trip to Yerevan, where she went by car on the night of October 27. Unlike the situation of Yelena Kostyuchenko, in the case of Irina Babloyan, it is more difficult to draw conclusions about poisoning, as there are too few results of medical analyses.