The Fake Murder that Fooled the World Panorama : Season 66 Episode 24
BBC One 40m int(0)
Aired: July 23rd, 2018 @ 8:30 PM EST on BBC One
Found in a pool of blood, Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and critic of President Putin, was declared murdered in Ukraine in May. But a day later he was back from the dead, appearing alive and well at a Kiev press conference. Speaking to all the key players for the first time, Jonah Fisher has the inside story of how to fake a murder. Why did Ukrainian security services stage his death? And in the propaganda war between the truth and fake news, what, if anything, did it achieve?