MOSCOW, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A Moscow journalist was in an induced coma Saturday after a sustained beating that fractured most of his bones, including his fingers, officials said.
The attack on 30-year-old Oleg Kashin happened Friday night and prompted Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to order Russia's general prosecutor and interior minister to supervise the investigation, The New York Times reported.
Kashin is a writer for the popular daily Kommersant and has been covering youth political movements and protests.
The newspaper's editor, Mikhail Mikhailin, told radio Ekho Moskvy there wasn't much subtlety in the assault.
"The thing that bothers me is that at the moment of the beating, they broke his fingers," Mikhailin said. "It is completely obvious that the people who did this did not like what he was saying and what he was writing."
Kashin was carrying cash and an iPhone, but nothing was taken, the report said.
Hospital officials induced Kashin into a coma to treat multiple skull fractures, a broken jaw, his hands and several fractures in both legs.
