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| | Reflections: “Gongadze Affair" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | But, try and say this in a country like Ukraine, which has the wondrous and rosy reputation of being among those post-Soviet republics where crime and criminality are rampant, where mass graft and corruption in the highest levels are endemic, and where opposition presidential candidates are still being poisoned for their political stances. |
 | | It is also the land where, one night in September 2000, a 31 year-old journalist named Georgiy Gongadze was hackled into a car, where he was then kidnapped and murdered by individuals that still have not been identified or brought to justice. |
 | | A Ukrainian security official, Yuri Kravchenko, who supposedly was behind the murder of Gongadze, had been subpoenaed for his testimony several weeks ago; he turned up dead in his Kiev house, a bullet through his head, and a revolver in his hand. |
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