Europe News: MOSCOW: Russian investigators on Wednesday said they launched a criminal probe after award-winning journalist Elena Milashina was badly beaten in Chec.
Armed masked men on Tuesday attacked Yelena Milashina, a journalist for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper who was in Chechnya with lawyer Alexander Nemov when they were ambushed as they drove from the airport, Milashina's employer and rights groups said. Milashina and Nemov had planned to attend a court hearing in the case of a woman they believed was being unjustly persecuted for political reasons.