Chechnya Milashina attack: Armed thugs beat up Russian journalist and lawyer

“It was a classic kidnapping,” Yelena Milashina, who writes for Novaya Gazeta newspaper, told a Chechen human rights official in hospital in Grozny. “They pinned down then threw our driver out of his car, climbed in, bent our heads down, tied my hands, forced me to my knees and put a pistol to my head.”