Oles Oleksiiovych Buzina was a Ukrainian journalist and writer known for his criticism of Ukrainian politics and for supporting closer ties between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
13 Facts About Oles Buzina
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Oles Buzina was found killed by a gunshot on 16 April 2015, near his residence in Kyiv.
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Oles Buzina was born on 13 July 1969 in Kyiv and attended local schools.
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Oles Buzina began a career in journalism working for a number of Ukrainian media outlets:.
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Oles Buzina was invited as a guest to numerous talk shows in Russia.
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Oles Buzina ran in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election for a constituency seat in Kyiv for Russian Bloc but failed to win parliamentary representation.
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Kononenko stated that Oles Buzina "discredited most outstanding Ukrainian public figures and picks everything that's shameful in our history".
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Oles Buzina was rated 4th in the "Homophobe of the Year - 2011" list by the Ukrainian gay forum.
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Oles Buzina identified himself as both Ukrainian and Russian, though having ethnic Ukrainian parents.
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In January 2014, Oles Buzina said on a Russian state-owned TV channel Russia-1 that he was receiving constant death threats.
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Oles Buzina's killing was one of a few targeting pro-Russian activists or people linked to former president Victor Yanukovych during that time period.
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Oles Buzina speculated that corruption related to Yanukovych's presidency or action by far-right Ukrainian activists were both plausible theories explaining the murder, as was the view of Poroshenko and others that the murders could be provocations by Russian intelligence.
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Ukrainian MP and adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko speculated that Oles Buzina's murder "had been organised by the Russian security services in order to create the atmosphere of terror in Kiev, to carry on the hysteria in the Russian media".