What is Arkady Babchenko?
[[File:Babchenko and Poroshenko (5) (cropped).jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Babchenko in May 2018]] '''Arkady Arkadyevich Babchenko''' ({{lang-ru|Аркадий Аркадьевич Бабченко}}; born 18 March 1977) is a Russian journalist and war correspondent. He was{{cn}} a critic of President [[Vladimir Putin]]. He was born in [[Moscow]]. He temporarily left journalism and worked as a taxi driver for several years, but in January 2009 started working in Russian newspaper ''[[Novaya Gazeta]]''.<ref name=meduzaATRj/> As a military correspondent, he followed the [[War in South Ossetia 2008|South Ossetia war]] in [[2008]].<ref name=meduzaATRj>[https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/05/29/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-is-reportedly-shot-and-killed-in-kiev Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is shot and killed in Kiev], [[Meduza]] (29 may 2018)</ref> Beginning in October 2017, Babchenko began working in [[Kyiv]], the capital of [[Ukraine]], for the TV channel [[ATR (TV channel)|ATR]].<ref name=meduzaATRj/> Babchenko faked his own [[assassination]] at his [[Kyiv]] apartment on 29 May 2018 to arrest Russian spies who were [[plot]]ting (or making a [[plan]] about) his assassination.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ru.euronews.com/2018/05/29/babchenko-shot-in-kyev|title=Российский журналист Аркадий Бабченко убит в Киеве|date=29 May 2018|publisher=Euronews|language=ru|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-russian-journalist-exiled-putin-12618351|title=Russian journalist and Putin critic Arkady Babchenko 'is shot dead in Kiev'|last=Evans|first=Sophie|date=29 May 2018|publisher=Daily Mirror|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> However, the next day, he appeared alive at a press conference with the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU).<ref name=ABsaBBC>{{cite web |title='Murdered' Russia journalist is alive |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44307611 |website=BBC News |access-date=30 May 2018 |date=30 May 2018}}</ref> According to the SBU the 'murder' had been staged to arrest his assass