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Pseudocide · Oct 21, 2025 · 48 min

Episode 4: “I’m Still Alive”

Kiev, 2018. Journalists gather at a press conference. They are expecting to be briefed on the assassination of war correspondent Arkady Babchenko – widely suspected to be the handiwork of Russian operatives. Instead, Arkady appears, alive and well, before the shocked audience. “I’m still alive – for the moment,” he says. Hosted by: Alice Fiennes and Poppy Damon. Contributors: Arkady Babchenko Oleskiy Tsymbaliuk, Arkady’s would-be assassin Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Kiev journalist Dima Kolchinsky, fixer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Kiev, 2018. Journalists gather at a press conference. They are expecting to be briefed on the assassination of war correspondent Arkady Babchenko – widely suspected to be the handiwork of Russian operatives. Instead, Arkady appears, alive and well, before the shocked audience. “I’m still alive – for the moment,” he says. 


Hosted by: Alice Fiennes and Poppy Damon.


Contributors:

  • Arkady Babchenko
  • Oleskiy Tsymbaliuk, Arkady’s would-be assassin
  • Nataliya Gumenyuk, a Kiev journalist
  • Dima Kolchinsky, fixer


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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