UKRAINE. Kyiv. 30 November, 2018.
Arkady Babchenko spent years as a Russian war correspondent , leaving for Kyiv in 2017 after his criticism of the Kremlin led to threats against him. Last Spring, when Ukraine's intelligence agency warned of a plot to assassinate him, he faked his own death in a sting operation designed to catch the people paying for the murders -a controversial move in the journalism world. "At some point you have to pick a side," Babchenko says.