Pavel Grigoryevich Sheremet

Pawel Sheremet (2014)

Pavel Sheremet Grigorjewitsch ( Russian Павел Григорьевич Шеремет , Belarusian Павел Рыгоравіч Шарамет Pawel Ryhorawitsch Scharamet , Ukrainian Павло Григорович Шеремет Pavlo Sheremet Hryhorowytsch * 28. November 1971 in Minsk , Byelorussian SSR ; † 20th July 2016 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a radio , Television and internet journalist .

After working as a journalist in Belarus , for which he was sentenced to prison terms twice, he worked in Russia , where he moderated the most-watched news program Vremya for a time and was friends with the later murdered opposition activist Boris Nemtsov . The Belarusian citizenship, which he had after the dissolution of the Soviet Union , was deprived of him in 2010, after which he became a Russian citizen. For the last five years of his life he lived and worked in Ukraine.

Sheremet was known for his reports and for his clear criticism of politicians in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Journalistic career

Born in the Belarusian capital Minsk Pavel Sheremet worked for a year as a producer and host of the weekly news magazine Prospect in the first program of the state Belarusian TV until this mission in April 1995, a week before a controversial referendum that the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko more Should award power, was deposed by this. Sheremet then became editor-in-chief of the Belarusian newspaper Delowaja Gazeta (Belarusian Беларуская дзелавая газэта , German  for example: business newspaper ) in 1995 , began to work for the first program of the Russian state television ORT and in 1996 became head of its Minsk office. He was imprisoned for three months in 1997 for a critical report and was banned from traveling and working until 1999. He then moved to Russia, where he wrote for Russian state media until 2014 (from 2013 for Public Television of Russia / Общественное телевидение России ), but this ended in protest against what he saw as propaganda reporting after the annexation of Crimea, which he condemned . Sheremet criticized both Russian President Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Poroshenko . Most recently, he also expressed concern about some of the black sheep in the volunteer battalions, who too often are not criticized for their merits.

death

At the age of 44 years Sheremet was on July 20, 2016 in Kiev on his way to work at 7:45 am at the corner of Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street -Iwan Franko street ⊙ placed by the floor of the car of his partner Olena Prytula Bomb with an explosive force of about 400 to 600 grams of TNT killed. Olena Prytula is the editor of Ukrajinska Pravda , for which Sheremet most recently worked.

"Sheremet was known for often raising human rights issues in his work, and for his biting criticism of authorities and anti-corruption investigations."

"Sheremet was known for dealing often with human rights issues in his work, for his biting criticism of authorities and for his investigations into corruption."

- Human Rights Watch

Sheremet was buried in Minsk. About 1,000 people attended his funeral.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko promised a detailed investigation of the attack and the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for a complete investigation. Several suspects were identified and arrested in December 2019.

Works

• Pavel Sheremet, Svetlana Kalinkina: Slutschainyi President [The Incidental President ]. Limbus Press, St. Petersburg 2004, ISBN 978-5-8370-0116-1 (in Russian).

The work takes a critical look at the regime of the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka. It describes the unlawful persecution and suppression of the opposition, political assassinations and kidnappings, and the manipulation of democratic processes and laws. One of the cases described in detail in this book is the trial against Pavel Sheremet himself when he and his colleagues from the Russian broadcaster ORT , Zavadsky and Ovchinnikow, reported on smuggling in 1997 and was subsequently arrested. The work was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2005.

Honors

• 1995: Adamovich Prize of the Belarusian PEN Center for the best television reporter in Belarus
• 1998: International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists
• 2002: Prize for Journalism and Democracy of the OSCE

The civil society forum, which takes place annually as part of the Eastern Partnership, has named the “EaP CSF Pavel Sheremet Journalism Award” after him.

Web links

Commons : Pawel Sheremet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Katerina Gordeeva: The world can be better ': a tribute to journalist Pavel Sheremet . Tribute to Sheremet by his former colleague Katerina Gordeeva on The Guardian's website on July 20, 2016
• Andrew E. Kramer: Pavel Sheremet, journalist in Ukraine, Is Killed in Car Bombing . In: The New York Times . July 20, 2016 ( nytimes.com ).
• Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kyiv. In: Kyiv Post . July 20, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ukrainian journalist Sheremet killed by car bomb
2. ↑ https://charter97.org/en/news/2016/7/20/214385/
3. ↑ https://lenta.ru/news/2010/03/31/sheremet/
4. ↑ Katerina Gordeeva: The world can be better ': a tribute to journalist Pavel Sheremet .
5. ↑ ^{a b c} biography and appreciation of Pawel Sheremet from 1998 on the website of the Committee to Protect Journalists
6. ^ Journalist and Putin critic Pavel Sheremet killed by car bomb , theaustralian, July 20, 2016
7. ↑ Азов , ответственность и добробаты
8. ↑ ^{a b} What people in Belarus say about Sheremet's death , in: BDG Delowaja Gazeta from July 20, 2016 (Russian)
9. ↑ ^{a b} Well-known journalist killed in a bomb attack in Die Welt on July 20, 2016
10. ↑ Alec Luhn: Car bomb kills pioneering journalist Pavel Sheremet in Kiev on theguardian.com from July 20, 2016 (English)
11. ↑ Journalist Pawel Sheremet buried in Minsk on de.euronews.com on July 24, 2016
12. ↑ Steffen Richter, AFP: Ukraine: Suspects arrested after murdering journalists . In: The time . December 12, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 13, 2019]).
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14. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 2002 goes to Friedrich Orter and Pavel Sheremet on the OSCE website April 22, 2002 (English)
16. ↑ Afgan Mukhtarli Becomes the Winner of the EaP CSF Pavel Sheremet Journalism Award 2017 , press release of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum , September 29, 2017, accessed on November 25, 2017 (on the awarding of the prize to Afgan Mukhtarli ).