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Saturday, June 2, 2018
WHY A RUSSIAN JOURNALIST FAKED HIS OWN MURDER—AND WHAT HAPPENS NOW
EVERYONE THOUGHT HE
was dead, possibly including his own family. On Tuesday, prominent Putin critic and Russian war correspondent Arkady Babchenko was widely reported to have been shot outside his apartment in Kiev, Ukraine. He was said to have been found by his wife and to have died in an ambulance en route to the hospital. But the next day, Babchenko showed up at a
press conference
, undeniably alive.
It turns out Ukrainian authorities helped Babchenko fake his own death in a stunning, nearly unprecedented plot orchestrated to protect the prominent journalist from actual harm.
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