Arkady Babchenko

Babchenko in May 2018

Arkady Arkadyevich Babchenko (Russian: Аркадий Аркадьевич Бабченко; born 18 March 1977) is a Russian journalist and war correspondent. He was[source?] a critic of President Vladimir Putin. He was born in Moscow. He temporarily left journalism and worked as a taxi driver for several years, but in January 2009 started working in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. As a military correspondent, he followed the South Ossetia war in 2008.

Beginning in October 2017, Babchenko began working in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, for the TV channel ATR.

Babchenko faked his own assassination at his Kyiv apartment on 29 May 2018 to arrest Russian spies who were plotting (or making a plan about) his assassination. However, the next day, he appeared alive at a press conference with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to the SBU the 'murder' had been staged to arrest his assassins, who were operating on orders by Russian security services.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is shot and killed in Kiev, Meduza (29 may 2018)
  2. ↑ "Российский журналист Аркадий Бабченко убит в Киеве" (in Russian). Euronews. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Evans, Sophie (29 May 2018). "Russian journalist and Putin critic Arkady Babchenko 'is shot dead in Kiev'". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  4. 1 2 "'Murdered' Russia journalist is alive". BBC News. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.

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