In Russia a good journalist – is a dead journalist?

Grigory Pasko, journalist

What happened?

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Khimkinskaya Pravda” (the city of Khimki is pressed right against Moscow), Mikhail Beketov, was found on 13 November in an unconscious state in the yard of his house. There he had lain around 24 hours before being discovered by a neighbour woman, who called an ambulance. The doctors declared right away that the traumas received by Beketov “are not compatible with life”. For several weeks already he is found in intensive care. Before that they amputated his leg, now is being decided the question of the amputation of fingers on the hand. Colleagues of the journalist have reported that the brain operation Beketov needs continues to be postponed. [Interfax reports on 27 November that Beketov has come out of his coma but remains hospitalized.–Ed.]