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Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was gun shot in Kiev on May 29 in the evening, TASS informs. Currently the most evident version for the Ukrainian police is professional activities of the victim. However, Kiev has traditionally accused Russia of this crime.
Moscow has demanded of Kiev to investigate the murder of the Russian journalist as soon as possible. The Russian Foreign Ministry has claimed that the Ukrainian authorities should try their best in order to do that. Besides, the Ministry hopes that the investigation will be controlled by international organizations and nn-governmental organizations.
OSCE representative on Freedoms of the Media Harlem Desir has advised that shocked at the incident, he called the Ukrainian authorities for leading immediate and detailed investigation of the murder of the Russian journalist.
The Head of Central National Police Office in Kiev Andrei Krischenko called Babchenko’s work as the first and the most evident motive for murder. “But it’s too early to contrive any specific versions so far,” he added. There were three shots in the back. Babchenko’s wife called the police. She heard the noise, entered the neighboring room and saw her husband lying in the puddle of blood all around. The journalist died on the way to the hospital in the ambulance car.
Russia’s Investigation Committee has opened a criminal case on murder of the Russian journalist commenting that several Russian citizens died for the last couple of years in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry and the Head of the State Duma Committee for Information Politics, Technologies and Relations, Secretary General of the Journalists’ Alliance Leonid Levin paid condolences to relatives and friends of the murdered journalist.
Arkady Babchenko worked as a military journalist of such Russian mass media as Moscowsky Komsomolets and Novaya Gazeta. He was a TV journalist too. Before he had taken on news coverage, he participated in military actions in the North Caucasus. He is known as a founder of the modern military prose. He published several books on events in Chechnya.
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