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Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot

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

takyon writes:

'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, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday May 31 2018, @06:34PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 31 2018, @06:34PM (#686863) Journal

    Yep. The Expanse is the best thing I think since Babylon 5.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:18PM (#686880)

    Simpsons did it!

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:10PM (#686929) Homepage Journal

    Yep. The Expanse is the best thing I think since Babylon 5

    If you haven't seen S03E08 "It Reaches Out," don't click here.


    It is pretty good, although last night's episode (aired on SyFy in the US) strained credulity quite a bit, with Miller's reappearance as a weak recycling of the trope where Dave Bowman's consciousness is recreated for the monolith aliens from 2061: Odyssey Three [wikipedia.org]

    I'm going to wait to read the series until after the show's run, as novels are always better than any TV/film adaptation. But it certainly is better than most of the crap on TV (Sci-Fi or otherwise).

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:25PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 31 2018, @09:25PM (#686936) Journal

      Thanks.

      Just finished Season 2. I'll look forward to episode S03E08.

      I noticed there are, I think, Eight books? And the synopsis of the first two books sounded remarkably like the two seasons I just watched.

      Now, I just hope it actually goes somewhere and has an actual ending, like B5.

      I hope they avoid the problems with having to change actors and alter the story due to actor changes.

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