Natalya Arkhiptseva, an employee of state-owned Russia Today television, was injured after a drunken St. Petersburg businessman shot her in the leg with an air gun in a Moscow restaurant, RIA-Novosti said.
The assailant, Sergei Virolainen, 35, was charged with hooliganism but not arrested. He attacked Arkhiptseva after she retorted to a drunken insult, the report said, adding that the incident took place on Oct. 9 but was only reported Sunday.
(MT)