The chief editor of an independent news portal in Siberia was assaulted on Monday night by two young men posing as delivery couriers, just hours after the agency's website was targeted by a DDoS attack, coworkers said. The head of Taiga.Info, Yevgeny Mezdrikov, was hospitalized with a broken nose after two attackers gained their way into the news agency's office in the center of Novosibirsk and gave him several blows to the face. Mezdrikov was released later that night after doctors dismissed a preliminary diagnosis of a possible concussion following an X-ray scan, Taiga.Info journalist Yaroslav Vlasov, told independent Dozh television. Vlasov, who witnessed the incident and tried to interfere, said the attackers entered the office posing as couriers carrying boxes, walked up to the chief editor and asked whether he was, indeed, Yevgeny Mezdrikov, to which the chief editor assented.
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INC News, 09/12/2014
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