Kiev (AFP) – A pro-Russian journalist was shot dead in Ukraine’s capital Thursday, leading Kiev to brand the latest murders of pro-Moscow figures an enemy “provocation”.Columnist Oles Buzyna, 45, a supporter of Ukraine’s ousted Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, was gunned down in central Kiev by an unknown assailant just hours after the slaying of former ruling party lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov in the city.Ukraine’s government said the killings of its opponents was aimed at destabilising the country as it battles pro-Russian separatists in the east in a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people.An AFP photographer saw Buzyna’s bloody body …read more
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