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'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turns up alive
A Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin, reported to have been shot dead in Ukraine, showed up alive at a press conference on Wednesday to declare that his murder was faked by Ukrainian security services in an effort to foil an assassination plot against him.
In a stunning development, Arkady Babchenko, 41, walked into a room of journalists in Kiev who had been expecting to get an update on his murder.
He apologized to his wife Olechka -- who on Tuesday was reported to have found him bleeding to death at his apartment -- for the "hell" she had gone through. Ukrainian officials offered a jaw-dropping explanation for his so-called death -- to expose a Russian plot against him.
Script flipped.
Also at BBC.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday May 31 2018, @12:43PM (5 children)
The interesting part here was how the media outrage just died, I guess along with the story. Going from OMG! the evil government murdered a journalist to actually saving his life to foil a murder plot against hem. All of a sudden they had nothing to say any more ...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:08PM (2 children)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:33PM (1 child)
but if they've managed to bag some of the assassins through this exercise as well then it could get really interesting.
They did:
The head of the Ukrainian Security Service said the suspected organizer of the alleged hit plot was detained Wednesday, suggesting the bogus killing was aimed at flushing him out. [cbsnews.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:57PM
It's only a few weeks after a whole bunch of tit-for-tat diplomatic explusions over the attempted murder of the Skripals too, albeit this time not on the soil of a permanent member of the UN Security Council with a lot of political allies. If the Ukrainian's can produce some compelling evidence, or even a confession or two, then it's going to be interesting to see how the international response and media coverage of this attempt compares as well.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:46PM
Russia was trying to kill him, Ukraine faked his death to save him.
Now, which two countries are currently in a "civil war" over Ukraine's territory?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:53PM
I fail to see why you are drawing outrage at how the incident is being covered in a different way once the story changed. The difference is what happened, and why. Case in point, compare:
1) Man shoots woman dead in Grand Central Station: this is bad, and is newsworthy.
2) Man has a conceal-carry permit and carries a pistol through Grand Central Station, passing a woman without incident: this is just ordinary behavior, and not newsworthy.
There is a bit of a story about the exceptional nature of saving this journalist's life (hence this article), but it is vastly different in scope than an assassination.