Alexander Kirillov

Affiliated media: Europe-Asia News, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 11, 2019

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

In Yekaterinburg, an unknown attacker attacked Alexander Kirillov, editor-in-chief of the Russian news agency Europe-Asia News, with a knife. The incident took place in the evening of October 11 near the "Pyaterochka" shop on Sovetsky Street in the Pionerskiy District of the Ural city.