Car bomb kills pioneering journalist Pavel Sheremet in Kiev 7/20

[Sunlei]

A car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet, a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosion ripped through it from underneath. Passersby ran to pull Sheremet out of the vehicle, which later caught on fire.

Sheremet began his career as a television journalist in his native Minsk. He was arrested after filming himself crossing into Lithuania and back illegally for a Russian television story about smuggling in 1997, sparking a diplomatic spat between Russia and Belarus. Under pressure in his home country, he left to work in Russia before moving to Ukraine several years ago.

e was a supporter of the pro-European movement that toppled president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 and was known for his criticism of the Belarusian and Russian governments. He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.

Sheremet had won the Committee to Protect Journalists press freedom award and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) prize for journalism and democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/ukraine-journalist-pavel-sheremet-killed-kiev-car-bombing


I found the actual explosion on youtube "Raw footage: Car Bomb Murder of Ukrainian Journalist Pavel Sheremet (Шеремет "

Also viewed security camera night footage of 2 people attaching the bomb to his car. A third person waiting in a car close by. will place video here . Video was in a story about several Journalists trying to investigate what happened to their Journalist friend.

[lunasun]

1. Coming to a journalist near you if we don't stop pro Russia manipulation IMO

Pavel Sheremet

[Leghorn21]

2. So, so sorry.

RIP, Mr. Sheremet

[gratuitous]

3. Meanwhile, in the U.S.

The stalwart bulldogs of the fourth estate meekly obey when the White House tells them they can't videotape or audiotape the daily presser, even when Sanders brings visual aids to the meeting.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, their comfort level will change when Russians start disappearing them or their family members

[uponit7771]

4. Yeap, I pray this never happens to a journalist in the US

[spanone]

6. 😧

[Ilsa]

7. The US media ignores this, I guess. nt