Sheremet was blown up as he drove to host a morning radio programme
On 20th of July Kiev was shaken by the news of the assassination of the respected Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet. Outside the ex-Soviet republics he was hardly known. Yet the murder is one that the West should reflect on, as it could do much to aggravate the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
Sheremet was one of the most significant and high profile investigative journalists of his generation. His career as an archetypal examiner of the post-Soviet regimes in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia bought him fame and notoriety in …read more
Source: New Statesman
