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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: 5, Insightful) by pkrasimirov on Thursday May 31 2018, @01:21PM (5 children)
> could have been arrested without the circus.
They wanted the person who ordered this murder, and to get him the "circus" was needed. And they got him, two of them. We will see how this unfoils, waiting for the proofs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)
you're responding to a troll/useful (to putin) idiot
he already knew what you said, but didnt want it to be true
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:49PM
I'm not a troll. I honestly did not think of the "requester pays when murder is made public, so we can trace the money" idea.
you may be right in that I'm an idiot, and I have to say I'd hate being useful to putin in any way, I'm sorry if my question degraded the quality of the discussion.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 31 2018, @05:23PM (2 children)
There are unlikely to be any proofs. Ukraine vs Russia is now a years old story, with a helluva lot of atrocities, including a downed airliner. And, there are no proofs of any of those atrocities. All of us read the accusations, all of us follow the circus after the accusation, and each of us decides that this side or that is "more credible". But, so far, there have been zero proofs.
Personally, I tend to side with Russia over Ukraine. But, I can't point to any one incident, and produce real proof that Ukraine was the "bad guy". Well - except for Ukraine banning the use of the Russian language in a province populated mostly by Russian speakers. That was definitely a strike against Ukraine.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:46PM
And, there are no proofs of any of those atrocities.
Uhh....there's plenty of proof that Russia invaded part of Ukraine and claimed Crimea. [wikipedia.org]
That you don't want to acknowledge that fact says more about you than about the quantity of proof available.
(Score: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:07PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!