The coup in Kiev. He died a well known journalist – Newsweek Poland

As a result of explosion of a car in Kiev, killed well-known journalist Paul Szeremeta. According to the police, the car bomb.

Auto exploded at the intersection in the center of the Ukrainian capital approx. 6:45 Polish time. According to witnesses, they have reached journalists “Ukrainian Truth”, the explosion was very strong. First was visible thick smoke and then flames.

Police, which is handling the case, qualified as an explosion premeditated murder. According to their data, the car bomb was installed.

Auto belonged to the head of the Internet newspaper “Ukrainian Truth” Olena Prytuły. She was not in the car at the time of the explosion.

The recording of the explosion site:

writes ” Novaya Gazeta “, Szeremeta recently complained that he and Prytula were followed.

the voice took on the president Petro Poroshenko. He announced on his Facebook that the attack should be prosecuted and severely punished. “I knew Paul personally. I feel sorry for his family and friends” – wrote Poroshenko.

Szeremeta – journalist, author of documentaries and books, for five years he lived in Kiev, worked for the “Ukrainian Truth”; He was the presenter of the radio Vesti. His career in journalism began in Belarus, and its critical materials about the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko and the conflict with the authorities meant that he left the country and lived for years in Russia. He was the founder of the opposition portal Belorussky Partizan.

Szeremeta was born in Minsk. He began work as a journalist in the Belarusian television in the early 90s, in the middle of the decade was the editor “Biełorusskiej Dielowoj Gazeta”, one of the best independent newspapers, and later closed. In 1996, he was bureau chief and correspondent in Belarus, the Russian ORT television.

He worked together with the operator Dzmitry Zawadzki, collectively shook their documentary about the war in Chechnya ( “Official Chechen”). in 2000, Zawadzki disappeared on the way to the airport, his body was not found and the circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear. Szeremeta later shot two films devoted to unexplained disappearances so far known public figures in Belarus. Szeremeta and Zawadzki were together tried in 1997 for violation of the border of Belarus and condemned to sentences conditional.

In 1998 Szeremeta won the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) , who pointed out then that the journalist in different ways was harassed by the authorities for describing the return of Belarus to authoritarianism. In 2010 Szeremeta was stripped of his citizenship in Belarus, which was justified by the fact that the adopted Russian citizenship.

On the television ORT Szeremeta passed away in 2008, later worked for other Russian media – independent television REN, the magazine “Ogoniok.” In recent years, he worked for the Ukrainian media.

Along with Svetlana Kalinkina wrote the book “The Accidental President” of Alaksandrze Lukashenko. He also wrote a book about the policies of Russian and Russian-Georgian war in 2008. The protagonists of his documentaries were: creator of the free-market transformations in Russia Yegor Gaidar and the last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.