article_snippet.sent: Oleg Kalashnikov, the former member of parliament, was shot and killed shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the entrance to Ukraine's President apartment block.
article_snippet.sent: Kalashnikov, 52, was a member of the Party of Regions, the former ruling party in Ukraine, and was close to Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
article_snippet.sent: A day later, on Thursday, journalist Oles Buzyna, 45, was killed near his home by shots fired from a dark blue Ford Focus, Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said.
article_snippet.sent: On March 9, Stanislav Melnik, a former member of parliament with the Party of Regions and the manager of several businesses in the separatist-minded eastern city of Donetsk, was found dead in his 17th-floor apartment in KievKiev.
article_snippet.sent: And three days later, on March 12, Oleksandr Peklushenko, another former member of parliament, was found in his house in Zaporizhzhya, in southeastern Ukraine, dead of a gunshot wound.