"We'll finish you off": Sergei Nedovodin, founder of Echo of Petersburg, died after an attack by a member of the SVO.
Sergey Nedovodin, co-founder of the radio station "Echo" Petersburg" and its longtime executive director, died yesterday. He spent nearly two months in the Sklifosovsky Research Institute's intensive care unit, never regaining consciousness.
In recent years, Nedovodin lived in a city near Moscow. VidnoeNeMoscow spoke with several of his neighbors.
According to them, late on the night of June 23, Nedovodin went outside to confront his neighbor, who was laughing outside his apartment building with a friend. In response, they began beating him.
"Sergey's wife, hearing the screams, came downstairs with pepper spray and managed to drive them away," one resident told NeMoskva. "The attackers were high on some kind of substance, because they were behaving erratically. At first, they were banging on the front door, yelling obscenities. Then they let go and asked if the police had been called. They shouted at Sergei through the door: 'What do you think, are you hiding? We'll finish you off.'"
Nedovodin's wife called the police five times, but no one came. The police only arrived two hours later.
"The police didn't respond to reports of murder," a resident explained to NeMoskva. — They arrived only after receiving a call from an ambulance crew, which these inadequate people didn’t want to let out of the building.
As follows from the statement to the police, which опубликовано online, "one of the attackers stated that he was a member of the SVO and that he would not return alone."
At the hospital, Sergei Nedovodin was diagnosed with a closed head injury. He almost immediately fell into a coma and never regained consciousness. During this time, he developed sepsis and a lung abscess.
For the past month and a half, residents of the neighborhood have been discussing in their chat rooms that the attackers have gone unpunished—the police let them go. There is no documentary evidence yet that one of them is a member of the SVO.
“We didn’t ask him ourselves, but the neighbors say that he’s definitely an SVEO officer,” — the source of NeMoskva clarified.
Until the end of last week, police refused to open a criminal case, sending formal replies to Nedovodin's wife, who appealed their inaction to the Investigative Committee. During this time, the neighbor who attacked the journalist managed to change his address.
A criminal case for intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm was opened only on August 7—three days before Nedovodin's death. It was then that news emerged of the arrest of one of the attackers.
Now, following the journalist's death, police have begun actively searching for witnesses. According to one of NeMoskva's sources, this includes engaging building elders, who post notices in building chat rooms asking for help.
In 1998, Sergei Nedovodin co-founded the radio station "Echo of Petersburg" and served as its executive director for 16 years. In 2014, he actively supported the annexation of Crimea, leading the entire editorial staff to resign. A year later, Nedovodin himself resigned from the station due to a conflict with Echo of Moscow.
Since 2023, he has headed the Living Future Foundation. According to its website, the foundation's mission is to "identify, promote, and support young, talented Russian leaders," as well as "protect historical memory, perpetuate the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland, and preserve Russia's military glory."
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