曾報道僱傭兵死亡事件的俄羅斯記者墜樓身亡

A Russian investigative journalist who wrote about the deaths of mercenaries in Syria has died in hospital after falling from his fifth-floor flat.

日前，一名撰寫了關於敘利亞僱傭軍死亡事件的俄羅斯調查記者，在從五樓的公寓墜落後，於醫院中去世。

Maxim Borodin was found badly injured by neighbours in Yekaterinburg and taken to hospital, where he later died.

馬克西姆·博羅丁是被其在葉卡捷琳堡的鄰居發現嚴重受傷後送往的醫院，但後來還是死於醫院。

Local officials said no suicide note was found but the incident was unlikely to be of a criminal nature.

當地官員表示並沒有發現遺書，但該事件不太可能是犯罪行爲。

However, a friend revealed Borodin had said his flat had been surrounded by security men.

不過，據博羅丁的一位朋友透露，博羅丁曾說過自己的公寓被武裝人員所包圍。

Vyacheslav Bashkov described Borodin as a "principled, honest journalist" and said Borodin had contacted him at five o'clock in the morning on 11 April saying there was "someone with a weapon on his balcony and people in camouflage and masks on the staircase landing".

這位名叫弗亞切斯拉夫·巴什科夫的友人將博羅丁描述爲一位“有原則，誠實的記者”，並表示博羅丁在4月11日早晨五點與他聯繫，稱他的陽臺上有拿着武器的人，樓梯口也有人穿着迷彩服、戴着面具。

Harlem Désir of the international monitoring organisation OSCE said the death was "of serious concern" and called for a thorough investigation.

國際監測機構歐安組織的哈勒姆·戴齊爾表示，這起死亡事件“令人非常關切”，並要求進行徹底調查。

Journalists in Russia have often been harassed or attacked in recent years for their work. On the same day that Maxim Borodin was found fatally injured, the editor of an official regional newspaper was assaulted in Yekaterinburg, reports say.

俄羅斯記者近年來經常因其工作受到騷擾或攻擊。有報道稱，就在馬克西姆·博羅丁受到致命傷的同一天，一家官方的地區報社的編輯在葉卡捷琳堡遭到了襲擊。