Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday announced authorities had detained a suspect in the murder of Russian exile and artist Robert Kuzovkov, who worked under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky.
Skrepetsky was a well-known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was known for his satirical cartoons and a YouTube channel with around 28,000 subscribers. He was shot dead on Monday in broad daylight in Biała Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland about 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border.
According to Tusk and police in the Lublin region, a 36-year-old man with a Georgian passport was arrested under suspicion of being Kuzovkov’s murderer.
