Document #1173119
RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Author)
June 22, 2015
A Russian activist who works with opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is in hospital after being beaten while on a campaign trip in Russia's Far East.
A photograph posted on Navalny's website appears to show Dmitry Taralov lying on the ground and being kicked by two men.
Navalny said Taralov was hospitalized with a concussion and broken front teeth after the attack on June 21 in the port town of Magadan.
The TASS news agency reported that a member of Russia's parliament from the Far East, Irina Yarovaya, asked police to find those responsible for the attack.
Taralov works in a fund set up by Navalny to investigate and expose official corruption in Russia.
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