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Wednesday, May 30, 2018, from slated to the gist, I'm Mike Peska.

Ukrainian authorities convinced the world that the famous journalist,

Arcadia Babchenko, was killed, in Kiev.

Babchenko reported fearlessly on Russian politics and human rights violations

in the war in Ukraine.

He received constant death threats, and then one came true.

A photograph of Babchenko shown in a puddle of blood with gunshot wounds on his back

was released to the public, a member of the Ukrainian parliament,

gave the details of the murder on the Facebook page that stood in as the facts

of the case the Ukrainian police released a sketch of the killer.

He was bearded and in a denim cap, the United Nations demanded an investigation.

All the while, Babchenko was being eulogized, his name was being etched,

and a memorial to journalists, and then there was a press conference.

We can't speak Russian, maybe you can, or Ukrainian,

but I think we can hear the moment where what they call in the world of magic,

there were real.

Yes, it was Babchenko, the real, totally not dead, Babchenko.

He had faked his own death to catch the real killers.

This of course gave rise to other people trying to glom on to that tactic.

Rosanne claimed that she faked her own racism.

Putin said, well, you know how I always said that the death of Sir Guy Magnitsky was due to natural causes,

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