I never thought the death of somebody I never met could be so painful. It’s strange how one can get attached to voices that reach one over the internet.
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I never thought the death of somebody I never met could be so painful. It’s strange how one can get attached to voices that reach one over the internet.
Not strange, not strange at all, especially in the case of a voice as hard to replace as Babchenko’s.
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Well, turns out it was all a trick, he is actually alive, but didn’t even tell this to his wife:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44307611
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It’s great news that he’s alive — but as others have said, hard to understand why he cruelly allowed his wife to be mislead.
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This was dumb. It only gives Russians an excuse to yell ‘Crisis Actors! Fake news!’ the next time something like this happens.
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It wasn’t a prank. It was a successful counterintelligence operation. They did catch the contract killers as a result of it. There was a list of 30 intended victims.
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