Turchynov Ex-adviser: Sheremet Actually Died At War

The organizers of his murder must have already been awarded according to some secret Putin's decree.

Former Adviser to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov has voiced a new version of journalist Pavel Sheremet’s murder.

As Stanislav Rechinsky has written on Facebook, there is the project to create an anti-Putin data center, like Radio Svaboda in the times of the Cold War, on the territory of Ukraine.

According to Rechinsky, originally it had been planned to organize such a center in the Baltic States, then it was decided to create it in Ukraine. The Russian opposition journalists, who had been forced to leave Russia, were supposed to work in that center.

“Shortly before his death Pavel Sheremet had traveled to Russia. Allegedly to meet Nemtsov and people close to him. However, he might have met with potential immigrants. He was a perfect candidate for this mission as he knew personally a lot of Russian journalists. Why could not it have been done remotely, by e-mail, instant messengers, or by something else? Russians, especially the oppositionists, not without reason believe that there are no secure means of communication in Russia.

I do not know if Sheremet participated in this program. But, if he was involved, his demonstrative punishment, which should be a signal, first of all, to potential Russian emigrants and a slap to some special services, becomes clear. As well as the motives, why the FBI is participating in the investigation of this crime,” – Rechinsky noted.

He believes that if this is true, Pavel Sheremet should be awarded at least posthumously.

“That was the death at war. And the organizers of the murder must have already been awarded according to some secret Putin's decree. Perpetrators of the crime? Such perpetrators are not usually found,” – Rechinsky summed up.

A well-known journalist, the founder of the Belarusian partisan Pavel Sheremet was killed in Kiev in the morning of July 20, in the result of a car explosion. The explosive device had been laid under the driver's seat.

The police qualified the incident under the article “the premeditated murder, committed in a manner dangerous to the lives of many people.”

Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko considers revenge for Sheremet’s professional activities to be the main version of his murder.