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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUpdated : Russian journalist who was sharply critical of the Kremlin shot dead in Kiev apartment.
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BREAKING: Police in the capital of Ukraine say a Russian journalist has been shot and killed at his Kiev apartment.
https://apnews.com/0066e7ab2ead4b509993a776954eb726
MOSCOW (AP) Police in the capital of Ukraine say a Russian journalist has been shot and killed at his Kiev apartment.
Ukrainian police said Arkady Babchenkos wife found him bleeding at the apartment on Tuesday and called an ambulance, but Babchenko died on the way to a hospital.
The 41-year-old Babchenko served in the Russian army during the first separatist war in Chechnya during the 1990s and later became a journalist. He worked as a military correspondent for several Russian media outlets.
Babchenko had been scathingly critical of the Kremlin in recent years. He left Russia in February 2017, saying he was receiving threats and concerned he might be jailed.
In the fall, Babchenko moved to Kiev, where he worked as a host for the Crimean Tatar TV station, ATR.
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More as it develops.
Yup, Putin had him whacked......
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Updated : Russian journalist who was sharply critical of the Kremlin shot dead in Kiev apartment. (Original Post)
sunonmars
May 2018
OP
I wonder if there are any Anti-Putin journalists living in the US.......
ProudMNDemocrat
May 2018
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Fullduplexxx
(8,126 posts)1. Vlad cleaning up loose ends?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)10. The dead guy sounded like a Putin adversary, nota no longer needed flunky.
More of Putin having anyone who criticize him killed.
louis-t
(23,487 posts)2. Jeez, must be the worst job in the world.
Journalist in Russia. I'm sure Herr Donald approves.
Xolodno
(6,602 posts)3. I would have thought...
...there wouldn't be anymore anti Putin Russian Journalists anymore...
lapfog_1
(29,821 posts)4. almost true.
pretty sure that is why he moved to the Ukraine.
ProudMNDemocrat
(18,455 posts)5. I wonder if there are any Anti-Putin journalists living in the US.......
Most of those who call themselves liberal are. Makes me wonder if Putin has his eyes on them.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)6. t-rump does.
liberaltrucker
(9,133 posts)7. Shot?
C'mon Vlad, that's old school.
Volaris
(10,468 posts)9. Not when the Kremlin will claim this dude shot himself.
Twice.
In the back of the head.
Hell of a constitution score, those Russian journalists have...
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)8. K&R
oberliner
(58,724 posts)11. 'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko appears on Ukrainian TV
oasis
(51,300 posts)12. Sting operation.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)13. Pretty wild
Very strange story.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)14. Except he is not dead.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)15. Yeah, this gets weirder and weirder
He faked his death? As part of a sting operation to catch those who threatened to kill him?