The staging of the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, carried out as part of a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, is an anti-Russian provocation, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated. The statement by the head of the SBU Vasyl Hrytsak that the alleged organizer of the murder was recruited by Russian special services was called by the MFA "the promotion of Russophobic lies." "The further actions of the SBU are clear.

Updated . By 22:50 the site's operation was restored. The Kommersant newspaper website has been subjected to a hacker attack, the publication's editor-in-chief Sergei Yakovlev told the RNS agency. According to him, the attack began at 19:54 Moscow time. By 21:30 Moscow time, the Kommersant website had restored its functionality, according to RNS. However, at the time of publication of this news, it was again unavailable to some users.

A resident of Tatarstan died as a result of a store roof falling on her, torn off by a gust of wind, Interfax reports, citing the regional Ministry of Health. Three more residents of Tatarstan, among whom there is a child, were injured due to bad weather. All of them are in hospitals. According to Interfax, due to strong winds, three people were also hospitalized in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Znak.com won a lawsuit against Roskomnadzor over obscene language in a video published in an article about the attack on a school in Sterlitamak . The video shows a crowd of teenagers and a burning school with fire trucks approaching. A voiceover describes the attack. Roskomnadzor heard swearing in the video and accused Znak.com of violating the media law, for which the publication faced a fine. The editors insisted that no obscene language was heard in the video.

Here's what Arkady Babchenko said upon returning ‘from the dead’ Valentin Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On May 30, Ukraine’s National Security Service revealed that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, whose murder had been reported a day earlier, is in fact alive and well. Babchenko apparently took part in a special operation carried out by Ukrainian intelligence agents who learned about a plot against his life. The man who allegedly planned the murder is now reportedly in police custody.

May 30. Arkady Babchenko was alive. The assassination attempt is a staging by the SBU Journalist Arkady Babchenko, whose murder was reported by the Kiev police the day before, turned out to be alive . Today he appeared at a press conference of the Security Service of Ukraine. His "murder" was staged by the Ukrainian security forces.

The head of the international non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire, called the special operation to prevent the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko a "manipulation" by the Ukrainian special services and a new step in the information war. AFP reports that Reporters Without Borders called the re-enactment of Babchenko's murder a "pathetic trick".

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko, journalist Arkady Babchenko and head of the Ukrainian police Sergey Knyazev at a press conference on May 30 On the evening of May 29, the Ukrainian police reported that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was killed in Kyiv in the entrance of her house. In less than a day, it turned out that he was alive, and everything that happened was a special operation of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko instructed to provide round-the-clock protection to the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who participated in the staged assassination attempt organized by the SBU. Also, protection should be provided to the Babchenko family, Poroshenko wrote on Facebook. On May 29, it was reported that Arkady Babchenko was shot dead in the entrance of his house.

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The organizer of the assassination attempt on Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko planned to kill a total of 30 people in Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Hrytsak. The SBU knows the names of some potential victims, the head of the agency said. “The organizer of this crime spoke about the need to eliminate, think about the figure, 30 people on the territory of Ukraine. This order was a trial one,” Hrytsak said.

Valentin Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On May 30, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that journalist Arkady Babchenko, whose death was announced a day earlier, was actually alive. He participated in the operation of the Ukrainian special services who knew that an attempt was being prepared for him, and detained the suspect in the preparation of the crime. The head of the SBU Vasily Gritsak, speaking at a briefing, invited Babchenko to the hall. This is what the journalist said.

Arkady Babchenko is alive! The murder of a journalist, which everyone thought happened on the evening of May 29, turned out to be a staging by the SBU - according to the Ukrainian special services, thanks to this they managed to detain the organizer of the assassination. Users of social networks, less than a day ago, worried about the murder of Babchenko, breathed a sigh of relief - and immediately began to joke about the "resurrection" of the journalist.

Update . Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and head of the health department Alexei Khripun said that only two of the six people who went to the doctors during the wind had bad weather-related injuries, Interfax reports . In Moscow, due to strong winds, six people sought medical help, including two children. Their lives are out of danger, told RIA Novosti.

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko wasn't killed on May 29. On Wednesday, May 30, he appeared at a press conference held by Ukraine's National Security Agency, where officials announced the apprehension of the man who planned the murder.