The ceremony kicked off at 11.00 in the Ukrainian house, in the city centre. People lay flowers to the coffin with the reporter’s body. Many of Pavlo Sheremet’s colleagues joined the ceremony, paying last tribute to the reporter who fell victim to the car blast in the morning of July 20 in Kyiv.
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Pavlo Sheremet was Ukrainian and Russian journalist of Belarusian origin. The 44-year-old was widely famous for his criticism of Russian and Belarusian leaders – Putin and Lukashenko, respectively. Sheremet 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 OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 2002.
He was married with two children, a son and a daughter. He also had a son with Canadian photographer Heidi Hollinger.
