KIEV – A prominent pro-Russian journalist was shot dead in Kiev on Thursday, the Ukrainian government said, the latest in a series of allies of the country’s former pro-Moscow leaders to die in suspicious circumstances.Oles Buzyna, 45, a supporter of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, was shot in the street, interior ministry official Anton Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook in an account confirmed by the ministry’s spokeswoman.Buzyna’s bloody corpse lay on the ground at the foot of an apartment building by a playground near the city centre as police attended the scene, AFP photographers saw.Just the evening before, Oleg Kalashnikov, an ex-lawmaker in …read more
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