Prominent Russian journalist who criticized Kremlin shot dead in Kiev

  30 May 2018    Read: 1484
Prominent Russian journalist who criticized Kremlin shot dead in Kiev

A prominent Russian journalist was shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of his wounds in an ambulance after his wife found him covered in his blood in their home, police said, adding they suspected the murder was due to Babchenko’s professional activities.

Babchenko, a former soldier in the Chechen war who became one of Russia’s best-known war correspondents, had left his homeland fearing for his life after criticizing Russian policy in Ukraine and Syria.


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