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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: 2) by zocalo on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:19PM

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday May 31 2018, @08:19PM (#686913)
    Not necessarily, the Ukraine's a *big* place. It's perfectly plausible for it to be business as normal in the West, conflict in the East, and a huge area in-between. Despite the conflict and MH17, plenty of tourists still go there too - Kiev is a really cool city, and even hosted the Eurovision Song Contest (of all things!) in 2017. Even in Syria, where the conflict is somewhat more intense than it ever was in Eastern Ukraine, there's footage of people going about their lives pretty much as normal in one part of Damascus which looks mostly untouched while some of the suburbs are all but flattened.
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