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09:08 Vyacheslav Veremiy, a journalist for the "Vesti" newspaper who was killed in Kyiv, returned to work on February 18 after prolonged treatment. In January, he suffered a severe eye injury while covering clashes on Hrushevskoho Street.

The car Veremiy was traveling in was pelted with Molotov cocktails. Then the journalist was dragged from the vehicle, beaten, and shot dead.


Apparently this pleasant guy really interfered with freedom in Ukraine; I'm just floored by how easy it is these days to manipulate people and degrade their consciousness to a basic level of development in just a few months through provocations and agitation.

P.S. I can't stand politics, and talking about it even more so, but this isn't politics anymore—it's just a complete disaster.
I can hardly believe I spent just over a month on the Maidan, although even during that relatively peaceful time I didn't really feel for the Maidan—it was dirty, something was constantly burning (stoves, barrels, etc.), the stench from the portable toilets could be smelled from dozens of meters away, people were just stupidly sitting and drinking in their tents, and it would be one thing if this were the working class, or any other class, but damn, these are just, excuse me, yesterday's homeless people, bums who were brought to the Maidan, given a roof over their heads, a stove, fed, and then brought a bottle of booze in the evening; of course there were 16-year-old kids and elderly couples painted in the colors of the national flag, but the impression that none of the people on the Maidan would gain anything from their standing, but rather the opposite, remained quite strong.
Who knew then what this would turn into...

I only just noticed this post. The tendency toward beating, shelling, and other atrocities against journalists is clearly evident in the actions of the cops and titushky. In most cases, Maidan supporters are glad to see journalists, because the more journos there are, the less the Berkut rampage. I can't understand why you linked him to the Maidan. Moreover, he was killed exactly in the area where a gang of titushky was roaming yesterday. Thank God my comrades and I didn't take that same road at night; two guys returning home from the Maidan were shot there.