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Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« on: July 26, 2016, 01:54:24 AM »
(With apologies if this is found elsewhere on the forum.)


It was a typical Wednesday morning in Kyiv. Journalist Pavel Sheremet walked from the apartment he shared with his girlfriend, fellow-journalist Olena Prytula, and got into the Subaru they shared. He pulled out of the parking area and headed into the centre of the city to Radio Vesti where he hosted a 3-hour news and interview show every day.

As I wrote that day in the Mendeleyev Journal:

Just yesterday Pavel Sheremet had written an article about the new memorial monument recently erected in the closed nuclear city of Zheleznogorsk (Russia). On Wednesday morning he started his car and pulled out of the parking lot where he lived with fellow-journalist Olena Prytula. On the way to his new radio show, his car was idling at a traffic light in the centre of Kyiv (Kiev) when a bomb exploded, killing him instantly.

He had left Russian Television Channel ORT after mounting complaints on the content of his show from the Kremlin for his reporting on the annexation of Crimea, and the presence of Russian troops fighting with rebels in Eastern Ukraine.

He had been beaten and imprisoned due to his reports on the freedom protests in Belarus. Yet, Pavel was the kind of investigative journalist who seemed to fear nothing. He was unafraid of issuing critical reports which often angered the Kremlin in Russia, the dictatorship in his native home (Minsk) in Belarus, and the corrupt regime of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich.

Sheremet had received numerous awards including the prestigious freedom award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the prize for journalism and democracy from the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation).

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty is reporting that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist Ukrainian investigators in the murder investigation in order to ensure “maximum transparency.”


Footnote: I was wrong about a traffic light. He was simply waiting for cars to pass at an intersection. I was also wrong in reporting that he was killed instantly--he was alive when pulled from the car. His body was burning and bystanders quickly poured water from their water bottles to aid him. He died soon thereafter.
« Last Edit: July 26, 2016, 01:57:19 AM by mendeleyev »
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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2016, 02:08:19 AM »
Some of the most dramatic scenes on live radio:




31:00  Pavel Sheremet has not arrived in time for his radio show at Radio Vesti in Kyiv. His co-host, Tatyana Ivanskaya, who is now sitting in the host chair, is conducting an interview with a guest regarding Ukrainian sports policies. She is constantly looking at social media on her laptop, perhaps expecting an update from Pavel. However, soon she can see photos of Pavel’s bombed car on her laptop screen to the right. During the program people are now coming in and out of the studio which is unusual.

35:00 The crash can be seen on Tatyana’s laptop and she is noticeably nervous and glances to it for updates during the interview.  She momentarily reacts, then continues the interview.

36:00  The news anchor returns, but instead of sitting at the end, she sets up next to Tatyana. She makes an official report on Pavel’s death.

38:40  Tatyana tries to continue the interview.

40:00  She breaks into the interview and begins to speak about Pavel. It is difficult but she is courageous.

42:00  She takes a call. It is a rude caller and Tatyana cuts it off. Oddly, caller #2 has a question for the studio guest.

56:30  She begins to share her personal thoughts about Pavel and on the car bombing.

58:30  During a commercial set, she breaks down with grief.

60:00  She moves to a guest position as a different news anchor enters. Tatyana leaves the studio for a breather.

64:00  A replacement host, Tatyana Goncharova, has arrived. Callers begin to call in with first hand reports and to share their feelings on Pavel’s death. Amazingly, Tatyana returns in a few minutes and from a guest position participates in the show that has turned into a tribute to Pavel.
« Last Edit: July 26, 2016, 02:10:26 AM by mendeleyev »
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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2016, 02:17:43 AM »
From Thursday's Mendeleyev Journal:

 Thanks to Meduza correspondent Katerina Gordeeva, a former Sheremet colleague who penned a wonderful tribute Wednesday afternoon in honour of her fallen friend. She recalled that, “The main thing about Pasha was his broad smile. And his belly laughs. Sheremet could laugh so hard, so contagiously and carefree, in a way it seems is possible only for children and those rare adults with a clear conscience….he believed quite childishly that the world can be changed for the better, if only you speak the truth.”

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In hindsight, it seems fitting that it was Pavel Sheremet who helped lead the memorial services for his friend, slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Boris was gunned down on the streets of Moscow in February 2015, just steps from the Kremlin. Pavel was killed by a car bomb Wednesday in the centre of Kyiv (Kiev) while on his way to host his daily radio show.


A farewell service is planned today (Friday) in Kyiv, after which it is expected that his body will be flown to Minsk, his birthplace. Belarus stripped Pavel of his citizenship after covering the massive citizen election protests of 2010, but Belarusian authorities are expected to allow a Паннихида (memorial service) to take place on Saturday in All Saints’ Church at 121 Kalinovskaya Street, at the corner of Kalinovskaya and Vsesvyatskaya in Minsk.




 Minsk All Saints Church

 Pavel is expected to be laid to rest next to his father’s grave in Northern Cemetery, outside the city in the Minsk region, south of SD Yakubovich. Pavel is survived by his mother.
May God have mercy on his soul, and grant his servant Pavel eternal memory.
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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2016, 02:23:48 AM »
From the next installment of the Mendeleyev Journal:

First in Kyiv (Kiev) and then in Minsk, thousands stood in line to say farewell to slain journalist Pavel Sheremet who was murdered when a car bomb exploded under the car he was driving last Wednesday.


Pavel Sheremet kiev rest


Sheremet’s funeral was held at All Saints Orthodox Cathedral in Minsk, the city of his birth. He was buried next to his father in a cemetery outside of Minsk.

 
 
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered round the clock bodyguards for Olena Prytula, Pavel’s partner. She is the founding editor of Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Just a few years ago one of the newspaper’s journalists was murdered while covering corruption stories regarding president Viktor Yanukovich who was ousted in the 2014 revolution.


 Pavel Sheremet and Boris NemtsovSlain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov (February 2015) at left with recently murdered opposition journalist Pavel Sheremet (July 2016).

Speaking to reporters while under house arrest in Moscow, Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny said of Sheremet: “Governments always knew that he understood them well and always hated him for that. Sheremet faced jail in Belarus, he was persecuted in Russia, and he was being followed in Ukraine.”



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“Россия семимильными шагами движется к катастрофе, которую, мне кажется, остановить нельзя…” – Павел Шеремет  (Russia is moving by leaps and bounds to the catastrophe, which, it seems to me, can not be stopped … ” – Pavel Sheremet.


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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2016, 02:28:11 AM »
From yesterday's Mendeleyev Journal:

We reported it here on 05 October 2011. That was the day when clapping hands in public became a crime in Belarus.

Following months of protests after the stolen elections in 2010, the streets of Belarus were filled with peaceful citizen protesters. Pavel Sheremet was there, reporting from the thick of it all as journalists were beaten and dragged off to jail like anyone else who dared to defy the dictatorship’s curfew. Pavel Sheremet was one of those who was arrested and then suffered at the hands of the KGB thugs who protect president-for-life Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Thousands of brave citizens, longing for freedom, made their stand. It was not a pretty sight as the violence unleashed against a people was like something most in the West have never seen. In a country where ordinary citizens cannot possess weapons, citizens were forced to use their hands. Literally.

Public gatherings were banned, but citizens gathered anyway. They marched while shouting slogans and holding banners. Then, slogans and banners were banned. So, using social media they mobilized in groups by walking up and down streets while clapping hands in unison.
Hand-clapping in public was banned.

That brought on “silent protests” with groups walking together quietly. It was not long before that too, was declared to be illegal.

On Saturday, the 23rd day of July in 2016, hand-clapping in public was once again heard in Belarus. It began slowly at first, as the family followe the body of murdered journalist Pavel Sheremet as it was carried from his funeral service at All Saints Church to the waiting burial van.






As the van proceeded to the Northern Cemetery just outside Minsk, small groups of onlookers stood along the way to clap as Pavel’s body traveled to his final resting place.

It was one last hand for Pavel.
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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2016, 09:04:33 AM »

It's still hazardous to the health to be a journalist in Russia I still see. Mendy, you sure you don't want to switch professions to something a little safer like Alaskan king crab fishing or logging?
Fund the audits, spread the word and educate people, write your politicians and other elected officials. Stay active in the fight to save our country. Over 220 generals and admirals say we are in a fight for our survival like no other time since 1776.

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Re: Pavel Sheremet Murdered
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2016, 01:39:55 PM »
It's still hazardous to the health to be a journalist in Russia I still see. Mendy, you sure you don't want to switch professions to something a little safer like Alaskan king crab fishing or logging?


All he has to do is arm himself to the teeth and feel safe when he walks down the street.  ;)
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine - The American Crisis 1776-1783

 

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