July 22, 2016 — the day that journalist Pavel Sheremet came home.
Thousands lined up to see him in his hometown of Minsk, Belarus — for the last time. Two days earlier, Sheremet was killed in a car bombing in Kiev. The New York Times reported: Another Russian journalist falls. On the surface, his story is not uncommon.
Let’s start the story from the beginning.
1994: A young bank worker steps foot into the world of Belarusian state television. He quickly proves his talent in his weekly program Prospekt. In no time, he is President Aleksander Lukashenko’s right-hand reporter. Until he …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
