Top reporter's murder sends shivers through Ukraine media
The brazen murder of a prominent independent reporter in a Kiev car bombing has sent chills through Ukraine's tight-knit journalistic community at a time when it already faced grave threats. The killing on Wednesday of Ukrainska Pravda reporter Pavel Sheremet came 16 years after the beheading of Giorgi Gongadze -- the news site's founder, who appeared to probe too deeply into the dark side of what was then a Russian-backed state. Ukraine's 2014 pro-EU revolution that culminated in the ouster of Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovych had spawned new hopes and expectations for journalists in the former Soviet nation.