U.S. believes Russian intelligence was behind attack on journalist - media


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  • Friday, 29 Apr 2022

FILE PHOTO: Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, one of 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners, speaks with journalists in Moscow, Russia October 8, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

(Reuters) - The United States believes Russian intelligence was behind an April chemical attack on a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist critical of the Kremlin, U.S. news organizations reported on Thursday.

Dmitry Muratov, editor of the investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has said that while he was on a train he was splashed with red paint containing acetone by an attacker who told him, "this is for you from our boys."

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