Two western journalists and two Russian human rights activists were brutally attacked were brutally attacked as they were trying to enter Chechnya from neighboring Russian region Ingushetia, RFE/RL reports. A group of about 20 men believed to have come from Chechnya attacked the journalists and activists with knives and clubs and burned their minibus. Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has publicly vilified the human rights group to which the activists belonged.