Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Russian journalist fakes his own assassination
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.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readPolice 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. But this morning, Babchenko walked up to the microphone during a press conference in Kiev about his own murder. He had been working with Ukrainian police to fake his own assassination -- to foil an actual plot against his life.
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