MOSCOW – A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been gunned down in Kyiv.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko said in a Facebook post that Oles Buzyna, who was editor-in-chief of a leading daily until March, was killed Thursday afternoon by shots from a passing car.
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Buzyna in 2012 ran for a seat in parliament on the Russian party ticket and was known for his pro-Russian views.
Herashchenko said Buzyna was a key witness in a criminal case related to a pro-Russian rally in Kyiv that was organized to counter the massive pro-Western protests on Kyiv’s main square that led then-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country last year.
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