Serhiy Sukhobok

Serhiy Sukhobok
Native name Сергій Анатолійович Сухобок
Born June 1964
Pavlodar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died 13 April 2015 (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 in Kiev.[3]

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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.