MOSCOW, July 7< /strong> The police detained two suspects in St. Petersburg who doused «green liquid» on two women in Moscow, the press service of the capital's head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. on Rublevsky highway, an unknown man doused a 46-year-old woman and her friend, who was nearby, with a green liquid, after which he disappeared with another unknown person who was waiting for him nearby.»
The police do not name the women, but an informed source specified that one of them is Elena Ponomareva, a lawyer from the Moscow region, who was doused with brilliant green.
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«In less than a day, the criminal investigation officers … identified and, with the support of colleagues from the St. Petersburg Linear Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport, detained suspects born in 1984 and 1998 in the city of St. Petersburg,» the press service said.
It is specified that the detainees are now «delivered for investigative actions.» A criminal case has been initiated on hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Earlier, Ponomareva, in an interview with, suggested that the attack could be related to the case of former judge of the Lytkarinsky City Court Sergei Kotov accused of bribery. She also said that her «eyes hurt very badly.»
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