The return of the exile

Journalist Pavel Sheremet, killed on Wednesday in Kyiv, was buried in the Northern Cemetery of Minsk near the Belarusian capital near the grave of his father. It is reported by Khartya'97.

Before the funeral in the church of all saints in the northeast of Minsk, a farewell with Sheremet was held. About 1000 people came to the ceremony. The turn to church stretched for tens of meters.

In particular, the ceremony was visited by Svetlana Zavadskaya, the wife of the journalist Dmitry Zavadsky, who was stolen in 2000, whose fate has been unknown since then. In addition, the ex-candidate for president of the country Vladimir Neklyaev and the leader of the United Civil Party Anatoly Lebedko came to say goodbye to Sheremet. The interim attorney in the US affairs in Belarus George Noll also arrived.

A large number of those who came from Ukraine were noted. Among them were the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the bloc of Petro Poroshenko Mustafa Nayem and Sergey Leshchenko.

The deputy chairman of Parnas Ilya Yashin came from Russia to the funeral of Sheremet.

Meanwhile, no one at the ceremony appeared from Belarusian officials. Among the numerous wreaths, including a wreath from the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, was not a single one from the Belarusian authorities. In 2010, Sheremeta was deprived of Belarusian citizenship .

Before the removal of the body, the audience sang the spiritual anthem of Belarus "The Magumny of God". The coffin was escorted with applause and chanting "Live Belarus!"

The ceremony was watched by a large number of security forces in civilian clothes, led by the head of the Main GUED Minsk, Alexander Barsukov.

The day before, farewell to Sheremet took place in Kiev . Poroshenko personally visited the ceremony. As in Minsk, the coffin was escorted with applause, and also chanted "Heroes do not die!"

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Sheremet died early in the morning of July 20 in the center of Kiev as a result of an explosion of a bomb laid under the bottom of his car. The jeep belonged to Sheremet's civil wife - the head of the Ukrainian Pravda Alena Prutula. The hostess herself was not in the car in the car.

The preliminary versions of the incident investigated three. According to one version, the motive of the murder was the professional activity of Sheremet; According to the second, the crime was committed on the basis of hostile relations; The third version is based on the assumption of the Russian trace.

The prosecutor's office of Kyiv did not exclude that the purpose of the killer was not Sheremet, but Pritula.

The FBI connected to the investigation of the crime at the invitation of Poroshenko.

On Thursday, the media reported that the explosion was "accurately and competently" to defeat only the one who would sit in the driver's seat. On Friday, information appeared that a woman was laid a bomb in the car of Sheremet , and her accomplice was a man.