Politician groped me: BBC Russia journalist

A BBC journalist has accused a senior member of the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, or Duma, of sexual harassment.

Farida Rustamova, from the BBC’S Russian Service, reported on Tuesday that last March Leonid Slutsky urged her to dump her fiancé, then “ran his hand, the flat of his palm, up against my nether region”. She is the third female journalist to complain about him. Mr Slutsky denies the allegations.