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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: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:17PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:17PM (#686801) Journal

    i disagree, perpetual hiding could be uncovered by accident or by a double agent and then the russians would have had a field day. Now, indeed, he remains a target, but whatever happens to him, filo russians will be the likely culprits.

    A standard secret service op i guess, with exposure calculated to smear the opposition.

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