A Russian journalist has set herself on fire and died outside police headquarters in an apparent protest against months of official harassment. Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Koza Press news website in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, died at the scene, her news outlet said. Just an hour before she died by suicide, she wrote on her Facebook page: “Blame my death on the Russian Federation.” Russia’s top investigative body on Friday confirmed Ms Slavina’s death and said they opened an official probe into self-immolation. A day earlier, police raided her home in connection with an investigation into a man linked to an organisation bankrolled by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Police seized her laptop, phone and notebooks, she wrote in a Facebook post: “They took away everything they could find. They left me with no means to work.”
