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Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev
BBC ^ | May 29, 2018

Posted on 05/29/2018 2:38:56 PM PDT by tlozo

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Another Putin critic is assassinated.
1 posted on 05/29/2018 2:38:56 PM PDT by tlozo
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Indeed. I heard he was a Kremlin critic.


2 posted on 05/29/2018 2:41:11 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: tlozo

Arkancide/Putincide.


3 posted on 05/29/2018 2:41:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: tlozo

Putin.....


4 posted on 05/29/2018 2:45:44 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Responsibility2nd

List of other murdered Russian journalists the Kremlin did not approve of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia


5 posted on 05/29/2018 2:46:11 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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That may be a long list. Don't know. But I'll bet it pales in comparison to the Arkancide List.
6 posted on 05/29/2018 2:48:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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I bet our media will report this a lot more than the Seth Rich political assassination


7 posted on 05/29/2018 2:50:04 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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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:


8 posted on 05/29/2018 2:55:48 PM PDT by x
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To: Responsibility2nd; tlozo

Kremlicide? Been going on for centuries.


9 posted on 05/29/2018 3:01:28 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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I bet our media will report this a lot more than the Seth Rich political assassination

Ding ding ding…we have a winner!

10 posted on 05/29/2018 3:05:06 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: tlozo

Darkness cannot afford light to exist.


11 posted on 05/29/2018 3:14:28 PM PDT by Salvavida
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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


12 posted on 05/29/2018 3:21:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Vaquero

Max Hastings would understand...


13 posted on 05/29/2018 3:25:51 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: over3Owithabrain
Assassinations

One botched assassination that left him alive and a second in the hospital to finish the job.

And that probably doesn't take into account liquidating the first killers who couldn't shoot straight.
14 posted on 05/29/2018 3:26:24 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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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’.


15 posted on 05/29/2018 4:33:20 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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Another one of Christopher Steeles’ sources?


16 posted on 05/29/2018 4:43:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Hastingscized.


17 posted on 05/29/2018 4:44:59 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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Putin.....


18 posted on 05/29/2018 5:14:27 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: tlozo

My prayers for the young man and his family. Terrible.


19 posted on 05/29/2018 6:14:33 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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Sounds like a natural death. There is nothing more natural than a KGB-style assassination for someone who reports negatively on the Kremlin.


20 posted on 05/29/2018 6:25:47 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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