(2 Apr 2023)
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St. Petersburg - 2 April 2023
1. STILL showing military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky speaking during a party in front of projection of an image of him
STORYLINE:
An explosion tore through a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city Sunday, killing a well-known military blogger and strident supporter of the war in Ukraine.
Some reports said a bomb was embedded in a bust of the blogger that was given to him as a gift.
Russian officials said Vladlen Tatarsky was killed as he was leading a discussion at the cafe on the bank of the Neva River in the historic heart of St. Petersburg.
Some 30 people were wounded in the blast, Russia's Health Ministry reported.
Tatarsky, who had filed regular reports from Ukraine, was the pen name for Maxim Fomin, who had accumulated more than 560,000 followers on his Telegram messaging app channel.
Born in the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Tatarsky worked as a coal miner before starting a furniture business.
When he ran into financial difficulties, he robbed a bank and was sentenced to prison.
He fled from custody after a Russia-backed separatist rebellion engulfed the Donbas in 2014, weeks after Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Then he joined separatist rebels and fought on the front line before turning to blogging.
Tatarsky was known for his blustery pronouncements and ardent pro-war rhetoric.
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