Buzina was shot and killed on April 16, 2015 in front of his apartment in Kiev. His two murderers are known, the police did an excellent job investigating his murder, and presented irrefutable proofs of their guilt to the courts. However, the court proceedings have been dragging for years because of the continuous intimidation of the judges and disruptions of the court proceedings by Maidan activists who consider the two suspects national heroes. In the end the court proceedings were essentially put on hold indefinitely, the suspects released from custody, and eventually also all the restrictions imposed on their freedom of movement were lifted. In September 2019 one of them was even elected a member of the Public Control Board of the The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, which is an office created under the pressure from the USA. So a murderer free due to the perversion of the due process is overseeing the fight against corruption!
There were also some MPs and journalists who condoned and/or applauded Buzina's murder.
One of those remembering this sad anniversary was the Ukrainian journalist and former actress and TV presenter Diana Panchenko in an YouTube video,
How Ukraine and Buzina were killed. She believes that Oles' murder was a demonstrative one to instill in all Ukrainians: if you stand for peace, then you can be shot in broad daylight, and your murderers will not be punished, but made public heroes. That it was a turning point in the history of Ukraine, point of no return on her road to violence, one of those events the significance of which has become obvious only with time. 10 years ago with Oles also the freedom, justice, law, and all those who did not want to hate, who wanted to live a normal life, who wanted to speak in Russian were killed/silenced.
Oles Buzina's mother made it her life-long mission to ultimately bring her son's murderers to justice, and was phoning and writing letters to everybody involved in the court proceedings or in the position of power, even to Donald Trump. Unfortunately she has not lived long enough, and passed away just a month before this 10th anniversary. Panchenko promises that she will try hard to continue in this mission: there will be no Ukraine until those who killed Oles, who burned people alive in Odessa, who shot them on the Maidan, and who started the war, are punished.
Oles Buzina was anti-Maidan, was in opposition to the extreme nationalists who carried out the coup d'etat of February 22, 2014 and instituted a regime based on the hate, as was almost half of the then Ukrainian population, mainly the Russian speakers. He never advocated violence, but was calling for mutual respect, human approach, peaceful means and compromises. He wanted to avoid all the violence that followed February 2014. He advocated for Ukraine that would be on good terms with all her neighbours. He was actually promoting the idea of a trilateral federation of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. He was a patriot of Ukraine, loved his country and did not want to emigrate. He was against the interference of the West into the internal matters of Ukraine. He was not financed by anybody, and lived a modest life in an old apartment building, dedicated to his ideas and historical research.
He wrote a number of books on history, in which he was "debunking" myths of the Ukrainian nationalists, and posed some provocative questions, such as "If the national hero Taras Shevchenko was bilingual, why the present days Ukrainians cannot be?" For these books he was charged in courts with something akin the "defamation of Ukrainian historical heroes", but he won all the 11 associated court proceedings, as he was able to prove that the accusations against him and his writing had no merit. In connection to that, already then in 2000, there was an attempt on his life by Ukrainian neo-nazis when he was leaving the court.
Diana ends her remembrance video with these words: "People all over the world do not fully understand the conditions in which Ukrainians live, and journalists work under. It is impossible to describe the fear and pressure level. Journalists were killed in Ukraine like flies. Just from memory, I am able to recall Chechetov, Peklushenko, Melnik, Kalashnikov, Buzina and Sheremet. Although I am constantly getting threats that I will follow their fate, I would really like to do what Oles Buzina's mother wanted to accomplish, and I need your help in that."
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Soon there will also be the 11th anniversary of about 40 anti-Maidan peaceful activists being burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014!
It's sad that the Western mainstream media have been so biased in their reporting from/about Ukraine, especially since 2013, ignoring the plight and discrimination of a huge segment of the Ukrainian population.
Just a reminder: between 2014 and 2020-2021 the new Ukrainian regime at first closed all the high schools with the Russian language of instruction, followed by the closure of all non-Ukrainian elementary schools (there are other language minorities besides the Russian one). Then any use of Russian was made illegal in universities (leading to the absurd situation when professors are forbidden to use in lectures their own books or other materials previously published in Russian), all Russian language media were shut down, most opposition political parties were banned, and finally any use of the Russian language in the public domain (in offices, shops, on the street, park benches) was made illegal. All that in a country with almost half of the citizens with Russian as their mother tongue. That's about equivalent (or actually worse) to banning any use of French in all Canada, including in Quebec.