Oleg Kalashnikov

Oleh Ivanovych Kalashnikov (Оле́г Іва́нович Кала́шніков; 6 November 1962 – 15 April 2015) was a Ukrainian politician, born in Rivne, Ukrainian SSR. He was a member of the Party of Regions, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of V convocation. On 15 April 2015 he was shot to death at his home in Kyiv. On 16 April Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina was shot to death in Kyiv as well. A Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself Ukrainian Insurgent Army allegedly claimed responsibility for these and other murders in an email containing "grammatical mistakes not typical for a native Ukrainian speaker". The authenticity of the claim was questioned by the Ukrainian government as well as the very existence of the named group.

Controversies
On July 12, 2006, a group of individuals from the Party of Regions, including Oleh Kalashnikov, obstructed the work of an STB television crew near the Verkhovna Rada. The group forcibly took away a tape from the STB crew, and the journalists were physically assaulted. Two days later, on July 14, the Prosecutor's Office of the Pecherskyi District of Kyiv initiated a criminal case on the grounds of obstruction of journalists' legitimate professional activities. As a response to the incident, the Verkhovna Rada established a Temporary Investigation Commission to examine the situation. On December 19, 2006, the Temporary Investigation Commission released a report, in which it condemned Kalashnikov's behavior as unacceptable.