Journalist Oleksa Shalaysky, co-founder of the Nashi Groshi portal, dies
4 October 14:25
Investigative journalist and founder of Nashi Groshi Oleksa Shalaysky died last night of a heart condition. This was reported on Facebook by journalist Serhiy Syrovatka and confirmed in a telephone conversation with Detector Media by Shalaysky’s colleague, co-founder of the Nashi Groshi project Yuriy Nikolov, reports
Oleksa Shalaysky was one of the leading Ukrainian investigative journalists who uncovered a large number of corruption schemes.
He began his career at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s in a student newspaper, and then worked for the city’s Ratusha. Then there was the magazine Pik, the websites ForUm, ProUA and Dzerkalo Tyzhnia. Later, together with his partner Yuriy Nikolov, he founded the online publication Nashi Groshi.
One of the most famous investigations by Shalaysky and Nikolov was the story about Boyko’s towers.
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