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Vigils are being planned in Russia and Ukraine for anti-Kremlin reporter Arkady Babchenko, who was shot dead in an apparent contract-style killing in Kiev u.afp.com/ogBd

Arkady Babchenko - 2018
Denis Voronenkov - 2017
Amina Okuyeva - 2017
Pavel Sheremet - 2016

Babchenko becomes the latest Kremlin critic to be murdered in Ukraine

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Arkady Babchenko was considered one of Russia's best war correspondents and won praise for his poignant reportages from frontlines including the conflict in eastern Ukraine u.afp.com/og6c

#BREAKING Russian security services ordered killing of journalist in Ukraine, Kiev says

#BREAKING Anti-Kremlin journalist reported killed in Ukraine is alive and at press conference: AFP

#BREAKING Kiev says faked death of Russian journalist was an operation to pre-empt real plot

#UPDATE Ukraine admits it staged the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko in order to foil an attempt on his life by Russia u.afp.com/og69

#UPDATE Kiev announces arrest of man suspected of preparing to kill anti-Kremlin journalist

#BREAKING Reporters Without Borders chief condemns Babchenko operation as 'pathetic stunt'

#BREAKING Moscow slams Kiev's staging of journalist murder as "anti-Russian provocation"

#UPDATE Moscow condemned the staged assassination of an anti-Kremlin journalist in Kiev, with the foreign ministry saying "now the true motives are beginning to be revealed for this staging, which is totally obviously yet another anti-Russian provocation" u.afp.com/ogbs