Journalist killed in Kiev car bombing

Ukraine is accusing Russia of trying to destabilize its government after a car bomb in central Kiev killed a prominent journalist and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the FBI to help investigate the bombing. Journalist Pavel Sheremet was a Russian citizen working for the investigative website Ukrayinska Pravda. He won awards for his work exposing human rights violations in his native Belarus. Sheremet was driving to work this morning in a car belonging to Ukrayinska Pravda’s owner when it blew up. Journalists in Ukraine once faced routine violence, but the country’s new pro-Western leaders had hoped to shed that legacy. The murder of Ukrayinska Pravda’s founder, Georgiy Gongadze, helped spark the Orange Revolution in 2003 and 2004. The website has a reputation for exposing corruption.