Irina Slavina

Affiliated media: Koza.Press , Founder, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 2, 2020

Attack type:

• Suicide

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Human rights watch

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod

Additional information:

Journalist and publisher Irina Slavina died after setting herself on fire on October 2, a day after a police raid on her apartment and following years of harassment by Russian authorities and others. Before committing a suicide, she posted on Facebook: “Blame the Russian Federation for my death.”