(24.01.) Some bloggers suggested that it was a Russian-hired sniper who killed the protester. But a Parliament deputy of the ruling Party of Regions, Yevgeny Balitsky, claimed that the sniper was recruited by the West: “We cannot exclude that we are talking here of a professional recruited in one of the NATO countries, who was brought here on an order from the opposition’s radical wing,” a local newspaper Segodnia.ru, quoted the deputy on Thursday.