Babchenko Resurrection
The award for yesterday's weirdest news probably goes to Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who everyone thought had been assassinated in Ukraine on the Kremlin's orders, showing up alive and well. He and the Ukrainian authorities had staged his murder in order to thwart an actual Russian plan to kill him, he said in a press conference. Babchenko apologized to his wife, who found him in a pool of blood and really believed he subsequently died in the ambulance. Pretty much all observers say this was a catastrophically stupid idea that played into the Kremlin's hands. Guardian
The award for yesterday's weirdest news probably goes to Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist who everyone thought had been assassinated in Ukraine on the Kremlin's orders, showing up alive and well. He and the Ukrainian authorities had staged his murder in order to thwart an actual Russian plan to kill him, he said in a press conference. Babchenko apologized to his wife, who found him in a pool of blood and really believed he subsequently died in the ambulance. Pretty much all observers say this was a catastrophically stupid idea that played into the Kremlin's hands. Guardian