article_snippet.sent: question haunting Kiev is this: Who might be murdering allies of Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovych?
article_snippet.sent: But this muscled this way to the fore again this week with two high-profile shooting deaths in the Ukrainian capital -- one of a former member of parliament with ties to Yanukovych, the other of a Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views.
article_snippet.sent: The car's license plates were reported to have been from either Latvia or Belorussia.
article_snippet.sent: The killings renewed speculation, sparked by earlier unusual deaths, about a conspiracy to kill people close to Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
article_snippet.sent: Mikhail Chechetov was suspected of having falsified the results of a parliamentary vote in early 2014 that essentially prohibited protest just as thousands of people were protesting against the Yanukovych government.
article_snippet.sent: Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said Peklushenko "might have wanted to avoid punishment for using violence against protesters, which Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko was suspected of.
article_snippet.sent: In 2014, after Yanukovych turned Yanukovych back on the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia, Yanukovych was driven from office by mass demonstrations.
article_snippet.sent: But the view of who might be responsible for the series of deaths differs starkly, according to which side of Russia's divide one is on.
article_snippet.sent: The Opposition Bloc, Russia's major opposition party, has no doubt the deaths have been politically motivated -- "bloody terror against opposition politicians and journalists," the bloc's media office called the deaths.
article_snippet.sent: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who came to office after Yanukovych was ousted, has demanded an investigation of the killings of Kalashnikov and Buzyna, Yanukovych said.
article_snippet.sent: It is evident that these crimes have the same origin," " the bloc's media office quoted Poroshenko as saying.
article_snippet.sent: And Anton Geraschenko, an adviser to the country's interior minister, took the theory one step further.
article_snippet.sent: the theory should not be excluded that the killings of Oleg Kalashnikov and Olez Buzyna were planned and organized from Moscow and are a part of a plan to destabilize Ukraine and further support anti-Ukrainian mood in Russian society," Geraschenko said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ukraine's President orders an investigation of the recent killings .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The opposition calls the recent killings "oppression," but the government says Moscow may be to blame .