The team had just left a cafe in the town when at least three aggressive individuals approached our car, confronting and attacking us, says BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg. Using physical violence the men grabbed the camera, smashed it on the road, and then escaped with it in a getaway car. During the scuffle the BBC cameraman was knocked to the ground and beaten.Following the attack, the team spent more than four hours being questioned at a local police station. During that time, the recording equipment left behind in the car was tampered with; the hard drive of the main computer as well as several memory cards with video material had been wiped clean.
More Russian goonery trying to cover their criminal acts in the Ukraine, and Putins attempts to hide the truth from the Russian people
It's Russia. The Russian police used to be the Soviet police. The Putin goons used to be KGB goons.