Kateryna Smagliy: ‘Make sure he did not die in vain,’ says Pavel Sheremet’s mother
A woman pays tribute near the casket and portrait of Belarus-born journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed in a car bomb in central Kiev on July 20, during a farewell ceremony at the Ukrainian House conference center in Kiev on July 22, 2016. Hundreds of mourners shed tears and laid flowers on July 22 at the open casket of Pavel Sheremet whose targeted car-bomb slaying sent shock waves through Ukraine's tight-knit journalistic community.
The shocking murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet by a car bomb in Kyiv on July 20 symbolizes the incredibly complicated domestic political transformation underway in Ukraine and the country’s remarkably vulnerable international position.
