What is Irina Slavina (journalist)?
[[File:Irina Slavina (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Slavina in 2019]] '''Irina Vyacheslavovna Murakhtaeva''' ({{Lang-ru|Ирина Вячеславовна Мурахтаева}}; ''[[née]]'' '''Kolebanova'''; 8 January 1973 – 2 October 2020), better known as '''Irina Slavina''', was a [[Russia]]n journalist. She was the [[editor-in-chief]] of the ''Koza.Press'', which she founded in 2015. She was born in Gorky (now known as [[Nizhny Novgorod]]). She was married and had a daughter. On 2 October 2020, Slavina died by [[suicide]] after setting herself on fire ([[self-immolation]]). She was 47. Before her death, she wrote a post on [[Facebook]] asking the public to blame the [[Russian Federation]] for her death. She carried out the action in front of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the [[Nizhny Novgorod Oblast]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54392005|title=Russian editor dies after setting herself on fire|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=3 October 2020|access-date=3 October 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Slavina, Irina}} [[Category:1973 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Russian journalists]] [[Category:Suicide in 2020]] [[Category:Writers who committed suicide]] [[Category:People from Nizhny Novgorod]] {{bio-stub}}