Amie Ferris-Rotman

Washington Post

Moscow Correspondent for the Washington Post.

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Police had released a photo of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko’s body, laying in a pool of blood with three gunshot wounds in his back. He was apparently assassinated in Ukraine.

Russian journalist fakes his own assassination

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