Attacking a politician is not nice …

… but did the news maybe kind of inflate the incident?

Headline: ‘Tajikistan: Opposition Figure Attacked by Mob.”

Story: “Rahmatillo Zoirov, head of the Social Democratic Party, said on his Facebook account on November 14 that he was attacked by a group of two men and one woman while he was taking his dog for a walk.”

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/86026

Perhaps inflation is so bad in Tajikistan that three people constitute a mob.