2010 Attack
On November 6, 2010, Kashin was assaulted by unknown attackers near his home in Moscow. He was hospitalized with several fractures. Police are treating the attack as attempted murder. President Medvedev has said that the assailants "must be found and punished". Prior to the attack Kashin had been reporting on the proposal to build a highway through the Khimki forest near Moscow. His reporting covering youth political movements and political protests had also prompted aggressive responses from many pro-Kremlin groups, including the Young Guard of United Russia, a youth group associated with the United Russia political party, chaired by Vladimir Putin. This attack is one of the subjects of the 2012 documentary Putin's Kiss.
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