Julia Ioffe: What happens when a journalist comes back from the dead

Anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko reacts as he arrives in the offices of his workplace, the ATR TV channel, where his colleagues laid flowers by a portrait of him in his memory, on May 31, 2018 in Kiev a day following his shock reappearance after Ukrainian authorities said he had been shot dead.In an operation that blindsided the world's media, Babchenko made a shock reappearance at a press conference in Kiev on May 31, less than 24 hours after the Ukrainian authorities reported he had been shot dead at his home in a contract-style killing blamed on Russia. / AFP PHOTO / Genya SAVILOV