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June 16, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Two citizens of Belarus have been arrested in the Polish city of Bia\u0142a Podlaska following the murder of Russian anti-Kremlin caricature artist Robert Kuzovkov, who worked under the alias Semyon Skrepetski, according to the Lublin district prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 44-year-old man was shot dead near his house on Monday morning. An unidentified man approached him and fired two shots using a short-barreled firearm, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. When the victim fell to the ground, the perpetrator came closer and fired three more shots before quickly leaving the scene, the report added. The man died at the scene with seven gunshot wounds on his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A police manhunt resulted in the prompt arrest of two citizens of Belarus, aged 37 and 33, near the Belarusian consulate in Bia\u0142a Podlaska, a city near the Belarusian border. \u201cTheir role in the incident is being investigated,\u201d the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators have reportedly questioned the first witnesses and collected a large amount of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skrepetski was a political cartoonist known for his biting caricatures of the regimes in Russia and Belarus, especially of Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Some of his drawings mocked the political system in Belarus, including its ruler Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 16, Pozirk. Two citizens of Belarus have been arrested in the Polish city of Bia\u0142a Podlaska following the murder of Russian anti-Kremlin caricature artist Robert Kuzovkov, who worked under the alias Semyon Skrepetski, according to the Lublin district prosecutor\u2019s office. The 44-year-old man was shot dead near his house on Monday morning. An unidentified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":192021,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-192044","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTwo Belarusians arrested in Poland over anti-Kremlin cartoonist\u2019s murder | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 16, Pozirk. 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