MOSCOW – Ekho Moskvy radio journalist Tatyana Felgengauer, stabbed on Oct. 23, has been moved to the hospital’s recovery room, the Sklifosofsky Hospital’s information service told Interfax on Oct. 24.
“She is in the post-anesthesia care unit. Her condition is medium grave,” a hospital representative said.
Felgengauer was attacked on the Ekho Moskvy premises on Oct. 23 afternoon. An unknown man blinded a security guard using gas spray, broke into the radio station, and stabbed the journalist in her neck. He was seized by radio station security and handed over to the police.
The assailant was later identified as Boris Grits, 48.
The Moscow department of the Russian Investigative Committee charged Grits with ‘attempted murder’.
Felgengauer was rushed to the Sklifosofsky Hospital for surgery.
The Moscow police told Interfax that the assailant had been tentatively identified as a foreign national, and the attack was prompted by a personal grudge.
Meanwhile, a source told Interfax that Grits recently lived in Israel and was carrying an Israeli identification document at the time of his detention.
Grits could not provide a rational explanation of the attack after he was detained. He said the journalist was ‘haunting’ him for the past two months and claimed to have had ‘telepathic contact’ with her since 2012.
Grits is expected to undergo a psychiatric examination in the near future. Doctors will determine whether or not he is sane.
