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A Russian journalist set herself on fire for persecuting authorities
Irena Selvina, editor of a news site in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, said police had confiscated all her equipment from her home.
"My death is the fault of the Russian Federation," she wrote on Facebook an hour before setting herself on fire in front of police headquarters.
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A Russian journalist set herself on fire and died outside police headquarters, apparently in protest of the authorities' persecution.
Irena Selvina, editor-in-chief of the Cosa Peres news site in Nizhny Novgorod, died on the spot.
Just about an hour before setting herself on fire, she wrote on Facebook: "My death is the fault of the Russian Federation."
Russia's top investigating body confirmed on Friday that she was dead and said he had opened an investigation.
The day before, police raided her home as part of an investigation into her ties to an organization funded by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Police confiscated her laptop, phone and records.
"They took everything they could find. They left me with no way to work," she wrote.
Selvina, like many independent Russian journalists, has experienced constant harassment by the authorities due to her work.
She was previously fined for "disrespect to the authorities" following a Facebook post, distribution of "Pike News" and her attempt to organize a march last year in memory of opposition leader Boris Namtsov, who was born in the city.
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"They took everything they could find."
Irena Selvina
Her death has shocked many in Russia, including opposition figures who know the government’s pressure closely.
Residents of the city, which is home to about 1.3 million people, laid flowers at the metro station near the police headquarters where Selbina died.
Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Berlin after suffering from nerve gas, said the government had pushed her to commit suicide.
He said that not only the law enforcement authorities in Nizhny Novgorod, "who persecuted the opposition in the city for months, should be prosecuted."
Navalny said that "those in the Kremlin who gave the instructions should pay a price as well."
Navalny has accused President Vladimir Putin of trying to assassinate him, but the Kremlin denies and accuses him of collaborating with the CIA.
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