: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Hundreds pay homage to slain Ukraine reporter


KIEV: Hundreds of mourners shed tears and laid flowers on Friday at the open casket of a top reporter whose targeted car-bomb slaying sent shock waves through Ukraine’s tight-knit journalistic community.
Wednesday’s death of Pavel Sheremet — a 44-year-old columnist for Ukrainska Pravda — came 16 years after the beheading of the investigative news site’s founder that carried dark political overtones.
Sheremet — a Russian national who was born in ex-Soviet Belarus — was respected for criticising both the Kremlin and the mistakes Ukraine has made since severing ties with Moscow in a 2014 pro-EU revolution that was followed by a 27-month …read more

Source: The News International

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