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Oles Buzina
Born	(1969-07-13)13 July 1969 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	16 April 2015(2015-04-16) (aged 45) Kiev, Ukraine
Citizenship	Ukraine
Occupation(s)	journalist, writer, politician
Website	www.buzina.org

Oles Buzina (Template:Lang-ua; 13 July 1969, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR – 16 April 2015, Kiev, Ukraine) was a pro-Russian Ukrainian journalist and writer. He was a politician for the opposition Russian Bloc party. He was murdered on 16 April 2015 not far from his flat in Kiev.

Biography

Born July 13, 1969 in Kiev. In 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (specialty "teacher of Russian language and literature"). He then started a career in journalism. In the course of his journalism career he worked for a number of Ukrainian media:

• Newspaper Kievskiye Vedomosti (1993-2005)
• Newspaper 2000 (2005-2006)
• Various magazines as Natali, EGO Ukraine, XXL Ukraine
• From October 2006 was an anchorman of Teen-liga programm on TV channel Inter
• Newspaper Segodnya, where had his own column and blog since 2007
• An an expert participated in reality-show Bachelor on TV channel STB from 2011
• From 2012 is author and host of Po sledam prashurov (eng. Trailing the Ancestors) show on K-1 TV channel.
• In January 2015 he became editor-in-chief of Segodnya newspaper where he worked all these years. But already in March he resigned protesting the censorship of newspaper's owners, limited control over newspaper's policy, total absence of controll over newspaper's website and imposed ban on his appearance on TV and interviews with the press.
• He has his own website, where some of his books are available online as well as a number of blogs.

He also was invited as a guest to numerous talk shows in Russia. Some of his articles were published in Russian media. As a writer he published 8 books mainly about prominent figures and history of Ukraine and Russia. Buzina was married and a father of one daughter. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Buzina tried to win a constituency seat in Kiev for Russian Bloc. But he failed to win parliamentary representation. In constituency 223 his 8.22% was not enough.

Literary views

His favourite books were A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov and The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Political and public views

Oles Buzina had anti-Orange Revolution, and anti-Euromaidan views.

On 20 January 2006 he claimed that as a writer he was aware of political censorship in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine, as some publishers were afraid to release his books.

In May 2009 he campaigned for adoption of a series of laws prohibiting Neo-Nazi organizations, propaganda of Nazism and ideological legacy of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as a totalitarian fascist party. This initiative was suported by Borys Kolesnikov, one of the leaders of Party of Regions.

In May 2009 National Expert Commission of Ukraine on the Protection of Public Morality launched an investigation against Oles Buzina as a result of complaint filed by Petro Kononenko, director of Institute of Ukrainology. Kononenko stated that Oles Buzina "discredited most outstanding Ukrainian public figures and picks everything that's shameful in our history".

As of April 2009 Buzina was sued 11 times and every single time judges ruled out in his favour. In 2000 he was physically assaulted right after winning in court one of these cases. Some of these legal actions saw Ukrainian politicians as plaintiffs: Pavlo Movchan, Volodymyr Yavorivsky.

On 22 March 2009 he had a cake thrown at him by a FEMEN activist, that declared his only fiction book sexist. Oles Buzina was rated 4th in the "Homophobe of the Year - 2011" list by the Ukrainian gay forum.

He identified himself as both Ukrainian and Russian, though having ethnic Ukrainian parents.

His views on Ukraine expressed on multiple occasions during years of journalism and political commentary included statements that Ukraine should be an independent state, not part of Russia, that it should be a bilingual federation that it should favor an alliance of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan rather than joining the European Union.

His political stance was criticized for a comment to newspaper Den that he allegedly gave in 1999:

My ideal is recreation of the Russian Empire, but I am forced to adapt myself to the ugly conditions of creating the independent Ukraine.

— When you wouldn't shake a man's hand?, Day.kiev.ua

He claimed the quote was a fabrication.

Murder

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Appearing on a Russian TV show Oles Buzina said that he receives constant death threats back at home and is not sure he'll live long.

On 14 April 2015, two days before the murder Oles Buzina personal data, including his address and mobile phone number, were published in "Purgatory" section on a Ukrainian website "Mirotvorets", that labelled him a "separatist" and a "homophobe".

On 18 April, Euronews reported that "A Ukrainian nationalist group" calling itself "Ukrainian Insurgent Army"" claimed responsibility for the murders of Buzina and other opposition figures. Markian Lubkivskyi, an advisor at the Security Service of Ukraine, said that linguistic analysis indicated they were not native Ukrainian speakers.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Die Zeit reported on 23 April that the murder of Busina was endorsed by one of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions called "Battalion OUN", which posted on its Facebook page that it supports "hard work" of cleansing Ukraine from "internal occupiers like Buzina" by "unknown patriots"

Reactions

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on live Russian TV that this murder was a political one and offered his condolences to the family of the victim. Radio Free Europe reported that "At 2:05, Ukrainian presidential adviser Anton Herashchenko confirmed the slaying on Facebook. And by 2:17, Russian President Vladimir Putin was already using Buzina's killing to attack Ukraine's "democratic" values during his annual call-in show with the Russian public." The German newspaper "Die Zeit" reported that the murder of oppositionist Buzina follows a string of murders and deaths of five public figures critical towards who supported former president of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials blamed "Russian special forces assassins" for the murder United Nations Human Rights Commission representative Seid Raad al-Hussein described this murder and others as disturbing and demanded quick and decisive investigation

EU, Germany, USA, UNESCO, OSCE, Amnesty International have demanded an independent investigation of the murder of Ukrainian journalists Oles Buzina and Sergey Sukhobok and politician Oleg Kalashnikov.

Publications

• «Вурдалак Тарас Шевченко» (2000),
• «Тайная история Украины-Руси» (2005),
• «Верните женщинам гаремы» (2008),
• «Революция на болоте» (2010),
• «Воскрешение Малороссии» (2012)
• «Союз плуга и трезуба. Как придумали Украину» (2013)
• «Докиевская Русь» (2014)
• ЭМСКИЙ УКАЗ ПРОТИВ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА on line (2008)

References

1. ^ http://file.liga.net/person/1009-oles-byzina.html
3. "Pro-Russian Figures Killed In Ukraine". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
4. "СМИ сообщили об убийстве украинского журналиста Олеся Бузины". lenta.ru. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
5. ^ "About the author (in Russian)". buzina.org. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
6. "Oles Buzina was killed: Biography of the journalist (in Russian)". 112.ua. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
7. "Trailing the Ancestors (in Russian)". buzina.org. 2012.
8. "Oles Buzina was appointed as editor-in-chief (in Ukrainian)". Segodnya. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
9. "Yes, I resigned and I don't regret that (in Russian)". buzina.org. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
10. ^ Candidates, RBC Ukraine
11. Template:Uk icon Proportional votes & Constituency seats, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
12. Олесь Бузина: «Ющенко — это пародия на Петлюру и гетмана Брюховецкого»
13. ^ "Oles Buzina: A human is an easy-to-kill being (in Russian)". from-ua.com. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Oles Busina:When people say there is no censorship in modern Ukraine, it's lie. Being a writer, I know what it is and personally experience it all the time. Cite error: The named reference "from" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
14. "This "Maidan" is more civilized than the Orange one. (in Russian)". www.buzina.org. 9 April 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
15. "Instead of golden bread loaf (in Russian)". www.buzina.org. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
16. "Oles Buzina wants to jail Nazis (in Russian)". Segodnya. 28 April 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Oles Busina:Nazis and extremists have to be in jail instead of torching stores.
17. "Commission on morality launches ideological censorship (in Russian)". Kiev center of political research and conflictology. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
18. ^ "Oles Buzina:If God permits, we'll part our ways without bloodshed, if not - will continue living in a communal flat (in Russian)". from-ua.com. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Cite error: The named reference "from1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
19. Quote: "One can understand Shevchenko only speaking both languages. People obstructing the bilingual state in Ukraine are only destroying the path to the original Kobza player(Shevchenko)"Stories from Oles Buzina: Taras Shevchenko - model bilingual. (in Russian)". Segodnya. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
20. Quote: "The creation of a Eurasian Union will favour the developement of external economic and commercial ties, will increase the exports of Ukraine and raise the living standard of people." "Modernization through integration. (in Russian)". www.buzina.org. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
21. "Oles Buzina:Between a provocateur and a political victim (in Russian)". BBC. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
22. "When you wouldn't shake a man's hand? (in Russian)". Day.kiev.ua. 3 March 1999. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
23. "Last interview of Oles Buzina (in Russian)". Vesti Ukraine. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
24. "Duel talk show, live air from 30/01/2014 recording. (in Russian)". RUSSIA 1 TV channel. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
25. "VPE. Oles Buzina predicting his own murder. English Subtitles". YOUTUBE. 18 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
26. "Why is personal information of Ukrainians exposed in Internet (in Russian)". Vesti Ukraine. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
27. Igor Shevchuk (17 April 2015). Антон Геращенко рекламировал сайт с адресами Бузины и Калашникова (in Russian). Podrobnosti. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
28. "Nationalist groups claims responsibility for Ukraine killings". Euronews. 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
30. http://mobile.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/04/16/world/europe/16reuters-ukraine-crisis-crime.html?ref=world&_r=0&referrer=
31. Sindelar, Daisy (17 April 2015). "Kyiv Alleges Journalist's Slaying Not Only Ordered, But Timed To The Minute". Radio Free Europe.
32. Prorussischer Journalist in Kiew getötet
34. Nationalisten bekennen sich zu politischen Morden in Kiew
35. "German government expects immediate investigation of journalist Oles Buzina's murder". TASS. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
36. "Director-General condemns killing of Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina in Kiev". UNESCO. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
37. "OSCE Representative, Dunja Mijatović, strongly condemns killing of journalist in Ukraine". Council of Europe. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
38. "Ukraine's spate of suspicious deaths must be followed by credible investigations". Amnesty International. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Photographies of the corpse
• Personal blog (Segodnya) in Russian
• Last interview (Russian language video with English transcript)

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• 1969 births
• 2015 deaths
• Ukrainian journalists
• Ukrainian politicians
• Ukrainian television presenters
• Assassinated Ukrainian journalists
• Assassinated Ukrainian politicians
• Deaths by firearm in Ukraine
• Journalists killed in Ukraine
• Male journalists