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Deutsche Welle: Arkady Babchenko – The man who came back from the dead

Published June 1, 2018. Updated June 1 at 4:36 pm

Anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko holds a portrait of him that his colleagues displayed in his memory in the offices of his workplace, the ATR TV channel, on May 31, 2018 in Kiev a day following his shock reappearance after Ukrainian authorities said he had been shot dead. In an operation that blindsided the world's media, Babchenko made a shock reappearance at a press conference in Kiev on May 31, less than 24 hours after the Ukrainian authorities reported he had been shot dead at his home in a contract-style killing blamed on Russia. / AFP PHOTO / Genya SAVILOV

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And there he was again: the man for whom dozens of obituaries had just been written and whose name had been added to a memorial for slain journalists in Moscow only hours before.

Arkady Babchenko returned to the land of the living in the company of Ukraine’s secret service chief and prosecutor general.