Hundreds of local residents and journalists have.
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Though ties between Ukraine and Russia are all but severed because of the ongoing separatist war in eastern Ukraine, Russian journalists who worked with Sheremet came to pay their respects.
People paid their last respects to the well-known journalist Pavel Sheremet in Kyiv. Hundreds of local res.
A farewell ceremony honoring prominent Belarusian-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed in a auto bombing in Kyiv on July 20, is taking place at Minsk’s Church of All Saints.
The 44-year-old had previously worked in Russian Federation and his native Belarus, where he faced pressure from the authorities for his reporting.
(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky). Mourners line up at the coffin of Pavel Sheremet to pay their respects at his memorial ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2016.
The Ukrainian weekly Zerkalo Nedeli reports that law enforcement are looking into surveillance footage from July 19, the night before Sheremet’s death, that allegedly shows the vehicle bomb being installed.
In a media landscape sanitised by the authoritarian Belarussian government, Mr Sheremet, while living overseas, founded Belaruspartisan.org which went on to become one of the country’s leading independent news websites. No arrests have been made.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Dmytro Shimkiv, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, MPs Mustafa Mustafa Nayyem, Serhiy Leshchenko, Anna Hopko, Andriy Biletsky and many others.
