Are you surprised?
You got to dress the part.
This:
Not this:
Posted on 05/29/2018 2:38:56 PM PDT by tlozo
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has died after being shot at his home in Kiev, according to police.
Mr Babchenko, 41, was reportedly found bleeding in their apartment block by his wife and died in an ambulance.
After writing about a crashed Russian military plane in 2016, Mr Babchenko said he received death threats and left his home country.
He previously worked as a presenter on Ukrainian channel ATR TV, and has written about his military service.
Ukrainian law enforcement confirmed his death in a Facebook post, written in Ukrainian.
Kiev police chief Andriy Kryshchenko also told the media they suspected Mr Babchenko was killed due to his "professional activities".
Mr Babchenko has criticised the Kremlin in recent years, standing in opposition-led elections against the government in 2012 and denouncing Russia's actions in Syria and eastern Ukraine.
In December 2016, Mr Babchenko wrote a Facebook post about a crashed Tu-154 transport plane, which fell into the Black Sea while carrying a Red Army choir to Syria. He claims this Facebook post, in which he described Russia as an "aggressor", led to death threats and abuse from the Russian state, writing in a piece for The Guardian that this forced him to leave "a country I no longer feel safe in".
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Indeed. I heard he was a Kremlin critic.
Arkancide/Putincide.
Putin.....
List of other murdered Russian journalists the Kremlin did not approve of:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
I bet our media will report this a lot more than the Seth Rich political assassination
Are you surprised?
You got to dress the part.
This:
Not this:
Kremlicide? Been going on for centuries.
Ding ding ding…we have a winner!
Darkness cannot afford light to exist.
Arkady was author of the book “One Soldier’s War” about his time serving the Russian army on the Chechen Front:
“One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the Guardian as “right up there with Catch-22 and Michael Herr’s Dispatches,” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write “despite, not because of, their life circumstances.” In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war—the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror—and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war by an extraordinary storyteller.”
https://www.amazon.com/One-Soldiers-War-Arkady-Babchenko-ebook/dp/B008RZK5L4
Max Hastings would understand...
If the anti-Putin ‘journalists’ in Russia are as bad as the anti-Trump ‘journalists’ in the United States, I have great difficulty getting upset over their ‘liquidations’.
Another one of Christopher Steeles’ sources?
Hastingscized.
My prayers for the young man and his family. Terrible.
Sounds like a natural death. There is nothing more natural than a KGB-style assassination for someone who reports negatively on the Kremlin.
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