Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin murdered in Kiev

Activists in Kiev.
(Image credit: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Update May 30: Arkady Babchenko showed up to a press conference on Wednesday, where he confessed to faking his death in order to catch his would-be assassin. Our original article appears below.

Veteran Russian war correspondent Arkady Babchenko was shot three times in the back as he left his apartment in Kiev, dying while in an ambulance headed to the hospital.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.