“At present, the necessary verification measures are being taken to establish all the facts indicated in the information,” the statement reads on the website of the GSU SK of Russia in Moscow.
Earlier it was reported that 81-year-old Nazarov was hospitalized in a city hospital after being beaten in the center of Moscow near his home.
RIA Novosti, citing the press service of the capital’s Interior Ministry headquarters, reported that Vladislav Nazarov was injured in a conflict with another pensioner on Plyushchikha Street in Moscow.