Pavel Sheremet
| Pavel Sheremet | |
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Sheremet in 2014
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| Born |
Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet 28 November 1971 Minsk, Belarus (USSR) |
| Died | 20 July 2016 (aged 44) Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Soviet Belarusian (deprived) Russian (naturalized) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Awards |
CPJ International Press Freedom Award (1998) Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Prize for Journalism and Democracy (2001) |
 "Killing Pavel", a documentary produced by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its Ukrainian partner, Slidstvo.Info, YouTube video |
CPJ International Press Freedom Award (1998)
Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Шеремет, Belarusian: Павел Рыгоравіч Шарамет, 28 November 1971 – 20 July 2016) was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was imprisoned by the government of Belarus in 1997, sparking an international incident between Belarus and Russia. The New York Times has described him as "known for his crusading reports about political abuses in Belarus" and "a thorn in the side of Lukashenko's autocratic government". He was awarded the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award in 1999 and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 2002.
Pavel Sheremet died in Kyiv on 20 July 2016 in a car explosion. The Ukraine Prosecutor's Office have said the explosion was caused by a bomb and labelled the death of Sheremet a murder.
From 1994 to April 1995, Sheremet was the anchor and producer of Prospekt, a weekly news and analysis program on Belarus state television. The program was banned by Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko one week before a referendum to increase the president's powers.
Sheremet then became editor-in-chief of the Belarusian newspaper Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta. The same year, he also began working for the Russian public television company ORT, and was named its Minsk bureau chief in 1996. Because of increasing control of Belarusian media by the Lukashenko government, Russian television was often the primary resource of Belarusian citizens for alternative news.
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