{"id":12625,"date":"2026-06-18T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/12625\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:23:11","slug":"suspect-in-russian-dissidents-murder-detained-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/12625\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Russian dissident\u2019s murder detained in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Suspect in Russian dissident\u2019s murder detained in Poland\" title=\"Suspect in Russian dissident\u2019s murder detained in Poland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781787551.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Piotr Pyrkosz\/Slowo Podlasia\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p> Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Thursday that authorities had detained a suspect in the killing of Russian exile and artist Robert Kuzovkov, who was also known under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky. <\/p>\n<p>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 Bia\u0142a Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland about 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-detains-suspect-russia-vladimir-putin-critic-murder-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s murderer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/poland-s-tusk-seeks-calm-and-dialogue-with-ukraine-in-row-over-army-unit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tusk<\/a> on Wednesday said \u201ceverything indicates that this was a political assassination,\u201d but he added that Polish authorities were still compiling \u201cevidence and more concrete findings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it turns out that Russia was behind this attack, it would constitute an act of state terrorism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Tusk appeared to double down on his belief that the murder had been commissioned. \u201cAuthorities are working to identify the person who ordered the crime,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piotr Pyrkosz\/Slowo Podlasia\/AFP via Getty Images Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Thursday that authorities had detained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9137,9135,1527,9,1891,9136],"class_list":["post-12625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-detained","tag-dissident","tag-murder","tag-poland","tag-russian","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}