Source: ZeroHedge.com
Russian media is widely reporting that RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan was targeted in an assassination plot, uncovered and thwarted by the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to RIA Novosti, the FSB announced Saturday that members of a neo-Nazi group which goes by the name ‘Paragraph 88’ had been arrested in connection with the alleged plot, which apparently was busted before any attempt.
Authorities said that the group was also preparing to target prominent Russian journalist and former presidential candidate, Ksenia Sobchyak.
The neo-Nazi members were alleged to have “carried out intelligence at the addresses of work and residence of Simonyan and Sobchak” – or were allegedly casing their residences in preparation for some kind of attack….