"He's resting"

Last week there was a brutal attack on a journalist in Moscow. The man was beaten to a pulp and left for dead in front of his house. He is currently in a coma, with his right leg amputated, his frozen fingers cut off, multiple fractures on the skull and broken bones all over the body.

The more striking thing here, however, is not how and why he was targeted, but how his neighbour's maid, on seeing him lying there on the road face down, actually thought to herself "he's probably just had a little to drink and now he's resting".

These attacks are so common-place in Russia that people no longer wonder who'd done it and why. Instead, they marvel at the fact that some manage to survive. This particular journalist was mostly likely targeted for his investigations into some environmental issues in the suburbs of Moscow.