Pavel Sheremet Would Have Turned 45

Pavel Sheremet worked on Belaru­sian TV in 1990s, edit­ed the news­pa­per Belorusskaya Delo­vaya Gaze­ta in 1996, and the same year became the local cor­re­spon­dent for the Russ­ian chan­nel ORT.

In July 1997, after test­ing flaws of Belaru­sian-Lithuan­ian bor­der con­trol, was arrest­ed by Belarus author­i­ties togeth­er with his col­league Dzmit­ry Zavad­s­ki. He was sen­tenced to two years’ sus­pend­ed sen­tence. He spent in prison three months in total.

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Pavel Sheremet pur­sued his career at ORT until 2000, then switched to the 1^st Chan­nel as an author of doc­u­men­taries and spe­cial projects for infor­ma­tion­al pro­grams. He left the 1^st Chan­nel in 2008.

Pavel Sheremet was co-founder of the web­site Belarus­par­ti­san. In 2012 he launched the web­site Istorich­eskaya Prav­da. The same year he start­ed to lead a blog for web­site Ukrain­s­ka Prav­da, fur­ther becom­ing its exec­u­tive direc­tor.

Works

Pavel Sheremet shot doc­u­men­taries Wild Hunt­ing and Wild Hunt­ing 2, 1991 – the Empire’s Last Year, Chechen Diaries, and some oth­er.

Togeth­er with Svi­at­lana Kalink­i­na, Pavel Sheremet co-authored the book “Pres­i­dent by Acci­dent” ded­i­cat­ed to the regime of Ali­ak­san­dr Lukashen­ka. Oth­er books by the jour­nal­ist explore the issues of Russ­ian pol­i­tics (2005) and Geor­gia and Rus­sia rela­tions (2009).

In 2009, Pavel Sheremet pub­lished a student’s book for jour­nal­ists “TV. Between illu­sions and the truth of life”. He reg­u­lar­ly gave work­shops for young region­al jour­nal­ists.

The jour­nal­ist died on July 20, at 7:45 am. The car explod­ed on the cor­ner of Bog­dan Khmel­nit­skij and Ivana Fran­ka street in Kyiv. The car belonged to Ale­na Pry­tu­la, head of Ukrain­s­ka Prav­da, but she was­n’t in the car. The inves­ti­ga­tion con­sid­ered six ver­sions of the mur­der, four of them were pub­li­cized: pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ty, hos­til­i­ty in rela­tions or per­son­al motives, the Russ­ian trace (desta­bi­liza­tion of the sit­u­a­tion), an attempt­ed assas­si­na­tion of Ole­na Pry­tu­la. The inves­ti­ga­tion col­lect­ed video from sur­veil­lance cam­eras that record­ed the very moment when the bomb was set into the car. Fur­ther, it became known that the inves­ti­ga­tors were check­ing links to vol­un­tary bat­tal­ions fight­ing in the East of Ukraine – the trace had been tak­en from phone calls reg­is­tered in the area of the acci­dent. In mid-Octo­ber, the edi­tor of the web­site Ukrain­s­ka Prav­da Sevğil Musaye­va expressed her regrets that the case slowed down, and the author­i­ties did not promise fast results.