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posted by martyb on Thursday May 31 2018, @12:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the reports-of-my-death-are-greatly-exagerated dept.

'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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:01PM (#686731)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:49PM (#686757)

    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.