The editor of the Russian edition of Playboyhas been shot and seriously wounded in an attack near his office.
Mr Maxim Maslakov was shot in the back by an unknown attacker outside the magazine's offices in northwest Moscow last night, said Ms Yelena Myasnikova, a director of Independent Media, which publishes Playboyin Russia.
She said company officials did not know what the motive was or whether the attack was actually meant for Mr Maslakov.
It was the second attack this year on a journalist from Independent Media, which publishes glossy magazines, the English-language newspaper the Moscow Timesand the business daily Vedomosti.
In January, a Vedomostireporter was stabbed nine times but survived. Ms Myasnikova said she doubted the two attacks were related.
Ms Myasnikova said Mr Maslakov was in a serious but not life-threatening condition after losing a large amount of blood from the injury.
AP