Serhiy Nigoyan was an Armenian-Ukrainian Euromaidan activist who was shot and soon died from gunshot wounds during the 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots where he was acting as security. He was the first protestor killed by shooting during the riots. He died early in the morning of January 22, 2014 at around 06.30 after being mortally wounded. Soon after, at around 08.10, Berkut violently charged protesters on Hrushevskoho street, near the Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium. On January, 23, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine issued a statement stating that death of two activists (Nigoyan, and Belorussian Mikhail Zhyznewsky) resulted from wounds inflicted by a firearm using a lead case shot, and a hunting rifle. On January 26, 2014 Nigoyan was buried in his native village Bereznuvativka.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:51:11 +0000
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