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 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.[1] As a military correspondent, he followed the South Ossetia war in 2008.[1]

Beginning in October 2017, Babchenko began working in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, for the TV channel ATR.[1]

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.[2][3] However, the next day, he appeared alive at a press conference with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).[4] According to the SBU the 'murder' had been staged to arrest his assassins, who were operating on orders by Russian security services.[4]

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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