I’m very concerned for the staff at the BBC in Moscow, who have experienced a spate of individual violent attacks outside of work in recent weeks. First native Russian reporter Davlat Qudrat was assaulted on the Moscow metro after work, and subjected to racial abuses. The very next day Mikhail Denisov was attacked in his home and robbed by two men. Later Yevgeny Demchenko was jumped while walking home from work, receiving a head injury which required stitches.