In 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv specialising as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

[1] He began a career in journalism[1] working for a number of Ukrainian media outlets:[2][citation needed] He was invited as a guest to numerous talk shows in Russia.

[10] On 20 January 2006 he claimed that as a writer he was aware of political censorship in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine, as some publishers were afraid to release his books.

[citation needed] In May 2009 National Expert Commission of Ukraine on the Protection of Public Morality launched an investigation against Oles Buzina as a result of complaint filed by Petro Kononenko, director of Institute of Ukrainology.

Kononenko stated that Oles Buzina "discredited most outstanding Ukrainian public figures and picks everything that's shameful in our history".

His political stance was criticized[17] for a comment to newspaper Den that he gave in 1999: ...my ideal is the reconstruction of the Russian Empire, but I am forced to adapt to the ugly conditions of "construction" of an independent Ukraine.He stated that the quote was a fabrication.

– discuss] A previously unknown Ukrainian nationalist group calling itself "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" - named after a group of partisans who fought against the Russian army in World War II, claimed responsibility for the murders of Buzina and Kalashnikov, in emails to the parliamentary opposition and to political scientist Volodymyr Fesenko.

[30] The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein described this murder and others as disturbing and demanded quick and decisive investigation.

[31] The European Union, Germany,[32] the United States, UNESCO,[33] OSCE,[34] Amnesty International[35] demanded an independent investigation of Buzina's murder as well as that of Ukrainian journalist Serhiy Sukhobok and politician Oleg Kalashnikov.

On 18 June 2015 Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov announced the arrest of two alleged killers, Andrey Medvedko and Denis Polischuk.

[43] On 9 December 2015, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv moved Polishuk to house arrest, ordering him to wear an electronic tagging bracelet.

In July 2016, it was reported that a lot of major evidence, including photo robots[clarification needed] of the suspects made by eye witnesses, CCTV footage and cell phone monitoring, had been lost from case materials.