PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, June 17: Russian and Polish papers discuss the murder of a Russian cartoonist who mocked Vladimir Putin. Next: The New York Times investigates the final days before Jeffrey Epstein's death and his "fraying" mental health. Finally, we ask why India is not in the World Cup and discover Brooklyn Beckham's latest family feud.
A Russian dissident artist has been killed in Poland. The Moscow Times reports that Semyon Skrepetsky – that's his pseudonym – was shot dead in eastern Poland, in a city around 30 kilometres away from the border with Belarus. He was an artist and blogger known for his political caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin. For now, two Belarusian citizens have been detained, but no charges have been pressed and the investigation continues. An opinion piece in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita says that the murder of the artist shows Russia is a real threat to Poland. The article criticises Polish politicians who don't take external threats from Russia more seriously, but instead decide to trivialise them for the sake of domestic politics. The Sun shows us an example of Skrepetsky's work: a painting of Hitler and Stalin with Putin in the centre, grinding what we can assume are dead Russian soldiers.
