Russian authorities have foiled two assassination attempts against well-known media figures, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Saturday.
According to the organization, the targets of the planned attacks were the editor-in-chief of RT TV, Margarita Simonjan, and radio and television presenter Ksenija Sobchak. On Friday, authorities detained several members of the neo-Nazi group Paragraph 88 in Moscow and the Ryazan region, as well as those recruited by Ukrainian services to carry out planned killings, the FSB said.
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Kszenyija Szobcsak can be seen in the center of the photo
Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP
Margarita Simonyan is one of the most influential faces and voices of the Kremlin in Russian media. Ksenia Sobchak, the daughter of the late Anatoly Sobchak, a former mayor of St. Petersburg and a former political mentor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, runs a popular YouTube channel on whose broadcasts she frequently criticizes the Russian. authorities and launched a war against Ukraine last February. (MTI)