Attack on The Other Russia activist being probed in Nizhny Novgorod region
NIZHNY NOVGOROD. July 19 (Interfax) - Police in the town of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, have opened a criminal investigation into an assault on The Other Russia Party activist Alexander Zaitsev in June.
"The criminal case was opened by Police Department No. 3 of Dzerzhinsk on counts of assault and hooliganism - Article 116 of the Russian Penal Code," a regional police spokesman told Interfax.
Zaitsev will answer investigators' questions on Friday, he said.
However, The Other Russia's press service claims that investigators in the Nizhny Novgorod region "have continued to prolong the preliminary inquiry into the attack on The Other Russia activists Alexander and Yekaterina Zaitsev and Alexander's abduction for more than a month."
Zaitsev's wife alerted the police that four unknown men forced her husband into a car in Nizhny Novgorod's Moskovsky district and took him in an unknown direction late on June 14.
Zaitsev was later found at the 380th kilometer of the Moscow-Ufa motorway. He was diagnosed with a concussion and a rib fracture.
Zaitsev said then that the men beat him up inside the car, refusing to answer his questions.
According to the press service of The Other Russia's Nizhny Novgorod branch, the attackers were wearing balaclavas and were traveling presumably in a Gazelle minibus.
