Serhiy Sukhobok

Serhiy Sukhobok
Native name Сергій Анатолійович Сухобок
Born June 1964
Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died 13 April 2015(2015-04-13) (aged 50)
Kiev, Ukraine
Other names Sergei Sukhobok
Citizenship Ukraine
Occupation journalist

Serhiy Sukhobok (Ukrainian: Сергій Анатолійович Сухобок) was a Ukrainian journalist and entrepreneur. He founded the newspaper Viddzerkalennya and co-founded two online publications, ProUA and Obkom.

The son of Ukrainians from Chernihiv, Sukhobok was born in June 1964 in Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, and studied at Donetsk National Technical University.[1][2] He was critical of oligarchs, particularly Rinat Akhmetov, and state officials.[3][4] Sukhobok was killed on 13 April 2015 on a dacha near Kiev, during a dispute that turned violent.[5][3][6]

References

  1. ↑ Mironov, Alexei (16 April 2015). "О Сергее Сухобоке" [About Serhiy Sukhobok]. obkom.net.ua (in Russian).
  2. ↑ "Журналіста Сергія Сухобока по-звірячому вбили в Києві. Прощання – 17 квітня" [Journalist Serhiy Sukhobok killed in Kyiv]. telekritika.ua (in Ukrainian). 16 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 Vasilyeva, Nataliya (16 April 2015). "Pro-Russian journalist gunned down in Ukraine's capital". Associated Press.
  4. ↑ "Journalist Serhiy Sukhobok killed". unian.info. 16 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Pro-Russian journalist gunned down in Ukraine's capital". Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  6. ↑ http://www.mvs.gov.ua/mvs/control/main/uk/publish/article/1446352
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