In September of 2015, five long years later, Oleg wrote a long essay identifying those responsible for his beating, including substantial evidence, and the news that the assailants had been arrested and were awaiting trial, though the man thought responsible for ordering the hit-a regional governor who is a close ally of Putin-remained free. Although then-President Dmitry Medvedev promised justice for the journalist, no one was ever apprehended in the case. He spent several months in the hospital recovering from the assault, which was undoubtedly politically motivated.
A former navigator in the Russian Navy, Kashin was a well-known journalist in various Russian media outlets including Kommersant before he was attacked and nearly beaten to death outside his apartment building in Moscow.
The author of a seemingly infinite universe of journalism pieces, articles, essays, tweets, and even five novels (!), Kashin was born in 1980 in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic formerly known as Königsberg, famous as the birthplace of Immanuel Kant-and now Oleg Kashin.
Oleg Kashin is one of Russia’s most famous journalists.
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