After last Saturday’s ruthless attack on Oleg Kashin, newspaper reporter Anatoly Adamchuk was beaten yesterday in the Russian capital. Adamchuk, who had reported on a protest against deforestation, was attacked by unidentified men in front of his newspaper office, in suburban Moscow.

Journalists are not the only media actors facing serious intimidation: Alexander Lebedev, owner of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and Britain’s  Independent and Evening Standard,  suffered an attack on one of his banks just before the attacks on the journalists took place.