#arkady babchenko

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Какая прелесть

Опять «Абрамс», теперь уже на Красной площади (точнее, на её руинах)

Автор: Darius Abromaitis

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Russian Literary Excerpts About War 

When I read these anti-war excerpts, I looked up the authors. Both have been forced to leave Russia and Belarus, respectively, one because in her book she made the Russian troops appear “cruel.” If you ever have the time, it’s worth it to watch an interview with Svetlana Alexeivch. She won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature.

I’ve been thinking about how we talk about war, what happens when we don’t, when war is glorified, turned into abstract or moral concepts, or scrubbed from history books. Why literature like this is crucial and why it matters when journalists and authors are forced to leave the country and when their works are plucked from the shelves.

Cw: War, gore, death

The Runway Arkady Babchenko On the Chechen War, published: 2006

Nurse Svetlana Alexeivich  On the Afghan War, published 1989

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Russian Journalist Said To Be Killed Shows Up At News Conference Very Much Alive

"I'm still alive," Arkady Babchenko said, apologizing to friends and family who believed he was dead. The Ukrainian Security Service said it faked his death to flush out people trying to kill him.

An update from NPR’s earlier story

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Russian Journalist Said To Be Killed Shows Up At News Conference Very Much Alive

"I'm still alive," Arkady Babchenko said, apologizing to friends and family who believed he was dead. The Ukrainian Security Service said it faked his death to flush out people trying to kill him.

This was a bit of a wild ride.

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A necromancer must be on the loose because Arkady Babchenko just turned up alive on a news conference in Kiev

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Russian journalist and Kremlin critic killed in Kiev

'It would be a good idea for me to live outside our god-protected Motherland for a while,' he wrote on Facebook

Trump’s hero, Putin, has his own way of suppressing dissent and those getting too close.

Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist critical of the Kremlin, has been killed in Kiev.

Mr Babchenko was shot at his home on Tuesday evening and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. According to Anton Geraschenko, a Ukrainian politician with close links to the police and security services, the journalist had left his apartment to buy provisions, and was attacked on his return.

"When Arkady opened the door of his flat, the killer cowardly shot him in the back, firing several shots," he wrote on Facebook.

It was understood that his critical reporting of the wars in Ukraine and Syria had contributed to the elevated sense of danger. Russian state TV had been particularly forthright in criticising a blog post in which he expressed “indifference” for the deaths of “Russian military representatives” aboard an aircraft bound for Syria that crashed near Sochi.

Mr Babchenko’s death is the latest in a series of high-profile murders in Kiev. The 2016 assassination of investigative journalist Pavlo Sheremet remains unsolved, with no arrests or convincing investigation made. A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists criticised the Ukrainian authorities' "pushing [a] Russian narrative" in the case, despite "circumstantial evidence" suggesting a Ukrainian trace.

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Ukraine: On the staged ‘murder’ of journalist Babchenko

And on the staged ‘murder’ of the journalist Babchenko which was yesterday reported by most media (blaming Russia). It turns out today that all three actors of that play worked for Ukrainian security service (SBU). 

The alleged killer - worked for SBU and claims that the security service offered him to play a ‘killer’ to reveal a paymaster as an alleged ‘Russian agent’. 

But the alleged paymaster claims that SBU offered him to play a ‘paymaster’ and hirer to ‘help the country’. He claims that he is a patriot and, as businessman, used to supply Ukrainian army. 

The allegedly killed journalist Babchenko claims that SBU offered him to be a sort of ‘bait’ for a killer. 

In other words, all three participants worked for SBU which tried to stage a play to blame Russia. Probably, the Skripal case in London inspired Ukraine’s security service to act similar way. 

The show and wave of ‘blame Russians’ should have lasted longer, while the ‘killed’ journalist would be hidden. I suppose that someone of the three main actors became too scared since this turned to be high-profile murder case on the global level. Someone of the three actors began to suspect that he would be really killed to hide evidences and revealed himself to the press. Therefore, the planned operation ‘blame Russians’ - failed.