Pavel Sheremet, a Belarus-born journalist and country leader Alexander Lukashenko’s fierce critic who had moved to Ukraine where he worked with a number of national media outlets, was killed downtown Kyiv on the morning of July 20, 2016, after an improvised explosive device blew up the car he was driving.
Pavel Sheremet was born in Minsk in 1971. During his career as a journalist, he worked as a host at the Prospect weekly analytical show aired on Belarusian TV, editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Business Newspaper, head of the Belarusian Bureau of the Russian Public Television (ORT, later Channel One) and their own correspondent in Belarus, special correspondent for the Novosti and Vremya programs of the ORT Information Programs Directorate, and editor-in-chief for the Russian and foreign correspondent network of the same directorate. Also, he hosted the Vremya, a weekly analytical TV show.
Sheremet has often appeared in media as an opposition figure speaking up against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus. In 2005, the journalist stood at the roots of the Belarusian Partisan, an information and analytical site. In the second half of the 2000s, Sheremet was also referred to in the media as chief of the Partizan Publishing House, which, in addition to his own books, released a book by Russian opposition’s Boris Nemtsov.
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