HOW IT'S DONE.(case of Georgy Gongadze, journalist from Ukraine, probably murdered)(Brief Article)

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: March 1, 2001 | Copyright information

From a tape that apparently records a series of conversations between Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and top officials in his government, including the presidential administration head, Volodymyr Lytvyn, and the interior minister, Yuri Kravchenko. The tape, which was released by Oleksandr Moroz, a rival of Kuchma's in the Ukrainian parliament, implicates Kuchma in the disappearance last September of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist whose website, Ukrainska Pravda, frequently critic...

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