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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: 4, Interesting) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @07:57PM
It's only a few weeks after a whole bunch of tit-for-tat diplomatic explusions over the attempted murder of the Skripals too, albeit this time not on the soil of a permanent member of the UN Security Council with a lot of political allies. If the Ukrainian's can produce some compelling evidence, or even a confession or two, then it's going to be interesting to see how the international response and media coverage of this attempt compares as well.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!