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Oleg Kalashnikov

Ukrainian politician (1962–2015) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oleg Kalashnikov
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Oleh Ivanovych Kalashnikov (Ukrainian: Оле́г Іва́нович Кала́шніков; 6 November 1962 – 15 April 2015) was a Ukrainian politician, born in Rivne, Ukrainian SSR. He was a member of the Party of Regions, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of V convocation. On 15 April 2015 he was shot to death at his home in Kyiv.[1][2] On 16 April Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot to death in Kyiv as well. A Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself Ukrainian Insurgent Army allegedly claimed responsibility for these and other murders in an email containing "grammatical mistakes not typical for a native Ukrainian speaker".[3] The authenticity of the claim was questioned by the Ukrainian government as well as the very existence of the named group.[3]

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Controversies

On 12 July 2006 a group of individuals from the Party of Regions, including Oleh Kalashnikov, obstructed the work of an STB television crew near the Verkhovna Rada. The group forcibly took away a tape from the STB crew, and the journalists were physically assaulted.[4] Two days later, on 14 July, the Prosecutor's Office of the Pecherskyi District of Kyiv initiated a criminal case on the grounds of obstruction of journalists' legitimate professional activities.[5] As a response to the incident, the Verkhovna Rada established a Temporary Investigation Commission to examine the situation.[6] On 19 December 2006 the Temporary Investigation Commission released a report, in which it condemned Kalashnikov's behavior as unacceptable.[7]

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