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Ukraine staged fake murder of journalist

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Gasps and applause as a Russian journalist who was said by the Ukrainian authorities to have been shot dead yesterday, appears at a news conference at Kiev.
Arkady Babchenko is said to have been saved from a Russian assassination plot. But should journalists and officials be embarrassed to find themselves caught up in the deceit? We get reaction from Ukraine and Russia.

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(Photo: Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist whose death was faked by Ukraine's security services).

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  • Wed 30 May 2018 22:00

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