Russian Judge Goes On Vacation To Syria's Front Lines, Gets Shot In The Face
Sergey Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, 57, was hit while accompanying the crew of the Abkhazian Network News Agency (ANNA) as it reported on a unit of the Syrian Army fighting rebel forces in the Damascus suburb of Darayya.
A video recorded by the ANNA crew shows Berezhnoy—a former
Berezhnoy volunteered to “see with his own eyes and feel with his own soul” what was happening on the ground in
The Times notes that his boss told a Russian news site he knew that Berezhnoy—the deputy chairman of a provincial arbitration court in the Russian city of Belgorod—went on vacation but had no idea where he had gone until his misadventure surfaced.
Here's the video:
On Thursday Berezhnoy told the Voice of Russia: “Now I feel fine. They are making a dressing. Of course I am coming back to
Berezhnoy is not the first foreigner to vacation in the Syrian muck. Toshifumi Fujimoto, 45, a bored trucker, took a vacation and embedded with rebel fighters in Aleppo to take pictures. Fujimoto, who described himself as "a combination of samurai and kamikaze,” told reporters that snuck into the country from Turkey.
SEE ALSO: Russians Fleeing Syria Describe A Bleak Situation In Damascus
- 5 things to avoid doing if your phone gets wet
- Intense rains quench Uttarakhand’s wildfire frenzy; Supreme Court tells state govt. to stop relying on rain god
- IPL decoded: Can RCB still qualify? Probabilities of IPL teams qualifying for the playoffs
- IPL decoded: Hasty 100s - The fastest centuries in IPL 2024 so far
- 5 pasta types for home cooking enthusiasts
- Nothing Phone (2a) blue edition launched
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market