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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: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:07PM

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:07PM (#686905)
    Bellingcat's evidence [bellingcat.com] (including photographs of it on route) tracking of the BUK launcher all the way from Russia’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade's base to near Donetsk right before MH17 was downed and on the way back again just after is pretty compelling proof, IMHO. More circumstantial, but the career of the GRU officer believed to be involved also makes highly interesting reading and certainly implies someone who is very well connected and might get tasked with something like this.
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