Opposition activist Chirikova talks to the media in the town of Khimki outside Moscow
Opposition activist Yevgeniya Chirikova talks to the media before visiting an election commission office, as pro-Kremlin activists threw papers resembling US banknotes near her, in the town of Khimki outside Moscow August 27, 2012.
A Russian human rights activist who has been a prominent government critic since the communist era was badly beaten in Moscow in an attack some colleagues linked to his work.