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Eugene

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Wed Apr 15, 2015, 07:18 PM Apr 2015

Ousted Ukraine president's ally found shot dead in Kiev home

Source: Associated Press

Ousted Ukraine president's ally found shot dead in Kiev home

Associated Press in Moscow
Wednesday 15 April 2015 22.59 BST

A former ally of deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has been found shot to death in his home in Kiev.

The Ukrainian interior ministry said Oleg Kalashnikov, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, was found dead Wednesday evening. It said he had died of gunshot wounds but did not say whether it was believed to be homicide or suicide.

Kalashnikov was a deputy for the Party of Regions in Ukraine’s previous parliament.

At least six former Ukrainian government officials from Yanukovych’s time have died over the past two months in various circumstances that police have said were most likely suicides.

Yanukovych fled in February 2014 after months of increasingly violent protests. He later resurfaced in Russia.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/15/ousted-ukraine-president-ally-shot-dead
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Ousted Ukraine president's ally found shot dead in Kiev home (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2015 OP
Maybe it was a fishing accident underpants Apr 2015 #1
The Kiev regime not getting any heavy armament is a good thing. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #2
clearly it's the Russians, like the last 20-some times MisterP Apr 2015 #3
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