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Nowhere to hide from Russia, says Ukrainian journalist named on hit-list

By Olena Vasina and Sergei Karazy

 

Ukrainian journalist Matvey Ganapolsky speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kiev, Ukraine June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

 

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian journalist Matvei Ganapolsky sees no point in hiding abroad from Russians who might be trying to kill him, because if they want to find him, geography won't stop them.

 

Ganapolsky is on a list of 47 people who Ukraine says Russia has targeted for assassination, a list which also includes Yevgeny Kiselyov, a veteran anchorman who became one of Russia's best known television journalists in the 1990s.

 

Ukrainian authorities say they obtained the list after faking the murder of exiled Russian dissident Arkady Babchenko, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, in a ruse staged to flush out a genuine plot against him.

 

Ganapolsky, 64, was offered protection by the Ukrainian state after being told, after Babchenko's sudden reappearance, that he too was a Russian target.

 

Fleeing abroad won't help, he says, as the poisoning of the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in March showed.

 

"The Skripals were poisoned in Great Britain," Ganapolsky told Reuters in an interview.

 

"To send a man to kill somebody is a question of the price of a plane ticket. And, in low season, tickets are on sale with a discount.

 

And moreover you have low-cost airlines nowadays. That's why geography doesn't matter in this case."

 

Born in western Ukraine, Ganapolsky moved to Moscow in 1973 and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, made his name as a journalist with outspoken criticism of corruption in Russian law enforcement and restrictions on free speech.

 

He eventually came back to Ukraine following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and was given Ukrainian citizenship by President Petro Poroshenko.

 

He and Kiselyov came forward on Friday to say they had been contacted by the Ukrainian authorities after Babchenko's faked murder.

 

Kiselyov, one of Russia's most prominent liberal journalists of the post-Soviet era who co-founded Russia's NTV, came to Ukraine in 2008 saying he had been squeezed out of the mainstream media.

 

"I despise Putin. I am not afraid of him," Kiselyov told Reuters in an interview. "I am not saying that I do not sometimes feel fear for my life, or security of my family, my friends and relatives, but the feeling that I have is a feeling of ... contempt."

 

Kiselyov supports Ukraine in its standoff with Russia over Crimea and the outbreak of a Russian-backed separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine.

 

"If you are a political journalist, a commentator, and you take sides in this war, and I am taking Ukrainian side, well it involves certain risks," he said.

 

Ukraine has received both praise and criticism for the stunt to fake Babchenko's death. Some said the incident, which involved the phoney distribution of lurid details about his shooting, was a stunt in poor taste which had sparked a false outpouring of grief and finger-pointing at Russia.

 

For Ganapolsky, it is better to believe the threat is real than not believe it. "... Babchenko believed in it and maybe that was what saved his life," he said.

 

(Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-05

[Get Real]

I am sure we have some peices of unexplored jungle in some distant pert of the world. Build a hut, and pray for less tourism. 

[SOTIRIOS]

...another lackey sellout...

 

...sell your people out....sell your soul....

 

....and part of the deal is to blame it on Russia.....

 

...if anyone gets you....it will be your keepers....

 

....to dispose of you when they no longer need you....

 

....duhh....

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

I am sure we have some peices of unexplored jungle in some distant pert of the world. Build a hut, and pray for less tourism. 

Who needs jungle? Just swan into any of Bangkok's airports, get a 15-day visa-on-arrival... and submerge.

[maximillian]

Another propaganda BS to discredit Russia and disturb the coming Soccer games.  I do sincerely hope there will not be any major violent event before the games and during the games. Good to know that there are only honest people in Ukrainian government. Liars, all of them. Many Kiew critic journalists lost their lives during Poroschenko regime.

[Tounge Thaied]

Reuters and the AP... Mind Control coming directly from the powers that shouldn't be. The conflict in the Eastern part of the Ukraine is full of propaganda and lies on both sides of the conflict. As always, the truth is always obfuscated by truth and lies. None of it can be trusted. This is the truth. 

[Tounge Thaied]

[Tounge Thaied]

Our MASTERS slapping us with the Truth... and the ignorant masses just suck it up like hungry, ravinous, mind controlled Zombies... living in a Zombie Zoo. 
 

 

[Tounge Thaied]

Here is an example of what we call Synchromysticism... or simply the Universal intelligence speaking to you if you are paying attention. Ukrainian journalist Matvey Ganapolsky is actually actor Frank Langella from the 2009 movie called The Box with Cameron Diaz. You will understand when if you can grasp the significance of the movie. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/