A knifeman burst into the offices of an anti-Kremlin Russian radio station and stabbed a female presenter in the neck.
The attacker had blinded security guards with a potent spray to force his way into the building before targeting Tatiana Felgengauer.
He was pictured face-down on a bloody floor in the Echo of Moscow station being arrested by police.
The attacker had blinded security guards with a potent spray to force his way into the building before targeting Tatiana Felgengauer
The knifeman is said to have given the presenter a huge before attacking her with a Chinese-made knife (pictured)
Pictured with blood on his face and his arms tied behind his back, the attacker has been named as Boris Gertz. The knife he is said to have used can be seen in the background on the filing cabinet
Police officers detain an unidentified man who reportedly stabbed journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer in the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station office in Moscow, Russia
An unidentified man who reportedly stabbed journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer is seen detained
The knifeman was pictured face-down on a bloody floor in the Echo of Moscow station being arrested by police
An ambulance leaves the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station office in Moscow
The station’s editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov said: ‘Some man burst into the building, blinded the building’s security guard from a spray bottle, then came up to our floor.
‘He broke in and stabbed our presenter Tatiana Felgengauer in the neck with a knife,’ he said.
‘My security guards overcame him, and we handed him over to the police.’
The journalist has been hospitalised but her life is not in danger, he said.
Russian media later said two assailants had entered the building, but only one managed to get to the radio station’s office.
Another station employee Vitaly Ruvinsky posted on Twitter a photo of the dishevelled man dressed in a black jacket and trousers seaten in a chair.
Felgengauer is one of the station’s deputy editors and a longtime presenter of a morning news programme.
She is also actively involved in opposition rallies and has thousands of followers on her public Facebook page.
Police officers arrive at a building where the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station office is located in Moscow, Russia
Police vehicles parked outside a building where the a female presenter was stabbed by an unknown attacker
Echo of Moscow is a well-known station that regularly invites Russian political opposition figures and is known for its critical views of the government despite energy giant Gazprom being the majority shareholder.
Russia has a disturbing record of attacks on journalists, with 58 killed since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Threats made against journalists often go unaddressed and attacks are not investigated.
Another Echo of Moscow presenter Yulia Latynina this year left Russia after a series of attacks on her car and home.