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Russian Journalist Arkady Babchenko Admits Faking His Own Death

HeadlineMay 30, 2018

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko showed up at a press conference today, just one day after he was reportedly killed. He revealed he had worked with security services to fake his own death in an effort to catch those who were trying to kill him. Babchenko is a veteran war correspondent who has been sharply critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Babchenko had been living in Ukraine since 2017 after calling Russia “a country I no longer feel safe in.”

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