Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin, was thought to have been shot and killed in Kiev yesterday. But today, Babchenko turned up alive and well at a press conference, with Ukrainian security services saying the entire thing had been staged as a sting operation. Host Marco Werman speaks with Kiev-based reporter David Stern.
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