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  Georgiy R. Gongadze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze (in Ukrainian Георгій Русланович Ґонґадзе, Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze) (May 21, 1969 – September 2000?) was a Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
Gongadze's killers have yet to be publicly identified or put on trial, although two men accused of his murder were arrested in March 2005.
Born in Tblisi, Georgia, Gongadze was the son of a Georgian politician and a Ukrainian nurse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgiy_Gongadze   (1939 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy R. Gongadze (in Ukrainian Heorhiy Ruslanovych Honhadze) (May 21, 1969 –; 2000) was a Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
Later Gongadze's body was found beheaded in a forest near Ukraine's capital Kyiv, but relatives continuously refused to recognize the body as that of Gongadze.
September 16, 2000 (the last day when Gongadze was seen alive) is commonly recognized as his commemoration date, although there is no judicial verdict regarding the circumstances of the death.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Georgiy-Gongadze   (393 words)

  
 Georgiy R. Gongadze -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze (in (The Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine) Ukrainian Георгій Русланович Ґонґадзе, Heorhiy Ruslanovych Gongadze) (May 21, 1969 – September 2000?) was a (The Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine) Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
Gongadze's death became a major issue in the (additional info and facts about 2004 Ukrainian presidential election) 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, in which the opposition candidate (additional info and facts about Viktor Yushchenko) Viktor Yushchenko pledged to solve the case if he became president.
The proper (A native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia) Georgian name Georgi Gongadze became Георгий Гонгадзе in (A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian and Георгій Гонгадзе in (The Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine) Ukrainian.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/georgiy_r._gongadze.htm   (1659 words)

  
 REQUIEM'2002 - Gongadze Case
Georgiy Gongadze (31 years old, father of three-year-old twins), editor-in-chief of the on-line newspaper www.pravda.com.ua, was a young political journalist who was highly critical of the government, even though several ministers told the RSF delegation that "in Ukraine there were journalists who were more critical and better known than him".
Georgiy Gongadze was actively involved in denunciation of the referendum on the strengthening of presidential powers, in April 2000.
Georgiy Gongadze's wife was not informed of the discovery of the body.
www.gongadze.org /case.eng.htm   (4906 words)

  
 RSF - Letters of protest - UKRAINE - February 28 2001
Gongadze, we are requesting an impartial investigation, a new autopsy on the body and the dismissal of the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation.
Gongadze felt that these accounts were "grotesque" and an attempt to create doubt despite the evidence of the body's identification.
Georgiy Gongadze's wife was allowed see the body for identification purposes only one month after the headless body had been discovered and kept for thirteen days in a provincial morgue without any means of refrigeration.
www.rsf.org /rsf/uk/html/europe/cplp01/lp01/280201.html   (516 words)

  
 Build Ukraine
EDMONTON - Myroslava Gongadze hardly cries anymore when she describes the brutal murder of her husband, Georgiy, a crusading young journalist whose headless body was found lying in a ditch on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
Gongadze, 31, who is also a journalist and now lives in Washington, D.C., has told the gruelling story countless times in the past three years, and she'll repeat it many times more before her visit to Edmonton is over this weekend.
Gongadze's visit, her first to Canada, is timely given the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine this fall, which will put the fragile democracy to a critical test.
www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/myrosl_gongadze.htm   (975 words)

  
 Georgiy R. Gongadze - TheBestLinks.com - Georgiy Gongadze, May 21, Phonetics, President, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gongadze was a founder and leader of Ukrayins'ka pravda (http://www.pravda.com.ua), Ukraine's most influential political Web site.
The proper Georgian name (Georgiy Gongadze) is transliterated to Russian without changes but pronouncing and writing it in the Ukrainian language is difficult.
This is why Gongadze (born in Ukraine and excellent Ukrainian speaker) was often mentioned as Heorhiy Honhadze in Ukrainian.
www.thebestlinks.com /Georgiy_Gongadze.html   (406 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ukraine journalist's murder unsolved - May 25, 2001
The opposition blame the government for Gongadze's death, an accusation heightened by the release by a fugitive presidential bodyguard of alleged recordings documenting President Leonid Kuchma and his senior aides discussing steps to silence Gongadze.
Gongadze was an outspoken critic of alleged high-level corruption and had complained of being hounded by interior police.
He said Gongadze's supposed killers had a plan of the forest where his body was discovered, and dirt samples found inside their car were consistent with those in the forest.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/25/ukraine.gongadze   (379 words)

  
 Five Years After Georgiy Gongadze’s Murder Those Who Instigated the Killing Remain in the Shadows - RSF
Myroslava and Lessia Gongadze were allowed to see the case file for the first time in five years on 1st August and on 24 August President Viktor Yushchenko awarded Georgiy Gongadze the title of “Hero of Ukraine”.
A few days later, Lessia Gongadze’s lawyer said that the results of a fifth DNA test on the body of her son had been inconclusive.
Georgiy Gongadze went missing on the evening of 16 September 2000 and his beheaded and mutilated body was found on 2 November.
www.unian.net /eng/news/print-85729.html   (654 words)

  
 Realestate Gates
Yuriy Kravchenko was Ukraine's Interior Minister in 2000, at the time that reporter Georgiy Gongadze was abducted, decapitated and his headless body buried in the woods near Kiev.
The murder of Georgiy Gongadze, 31, became the most famous criminal case in post-Soviet Ukraine.
Gongadze wrote for an Internet journal Ukrayinska Pravda and was a harsh critic of former President Kuchma and top businessmen.
www.realestategates.com /print/News/general/murder_Gongadze56576809.html   (206 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Body is missing Ukrainian journalist's, prosecutors rule
Ukrainian demonstrators light candles, hold national flags and portraits of missing journalist Georgiy Gongadze with an inscription that reads:'Kuchma, where is Gongadze?' during memorial gathering in Kiev on Feb. 11 as protests arose around the Ukraine.
Ukrainian prosecutors have ruled that a headless body found in November was that of Georgiy Gongadze, the journalist whose disappearance has sparked nationwide protests.
Gongadze's wife, Myroslava, told the AP that she and Gongadze's mother, Lesia, had long fought for identification of the body, but would not immediately comment on the ruling.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=13202   (511 words)

  
 Eastern Europe / Cloud of Political Scandal Over Ukraine / Internet journalist who was thorn in President Kuchma's side ...
Gongadze had been an outspoken critic of Kuchma and his close associates, and his cyberspace venture, Ukrainian Truth (www.pravda.com.ua) published a steady stream of articles about the country's oligarchs -- men such as former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko.
Gongadze wrote frequently of high-level corruption and urged readers to be skeptical about the claims of their elected leaders -- not much of a stretch in a country where the economy is virtually prostrate and little progress has made toward an open democratic system.
Gongadze had a scar in the same spot, and Prytula shows visitors the coroner's X-ray as proof the corpse is that of her onetime colleague.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/14/MN168072.DTL   (1216 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Ukraine 'solves' editor's murder
Mr Piskun told Ukrainian television Gongadze was strangled by employees of the Interior Ministry, but he would not reveal who was behind the plot.
Gongadze, who led investigations into high-profile corruption cases, was abducted in Kiev in September 2000.
Gongadze's killing prompted months of protests against the then president, Leonid Kuchma, who consistently denied opposition allegations that he was involved.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4312455.stm   (248 words)

  
 Medien Südosteuropa - Dokumente - SEEMO Rundbrief (12.02.2001)
Georgiy Gongadze, editor of the Internet newsletter Pravda Ukrayiny, failed to return to his home in Kiev on 16 September, where his wife and children were waiting for him.
Gongadze's newsletter has acquired a reputation for being critical of Ukraine's incumbent government and powerful businessmen, with reports of alleged corruption among senior officials.
Gongadze's wife was not asked to identify the body and was allowed to do so on her own insistence only one month after it was discovered.
www.br-online.de /br-intern/suedosteuropa/texte/SEEMO010212.htm   (1513 words)

  
 Gongadze case : DNA test confirms body is that of Georgiy Gongadze : imprimer
Gongadze case : DNA test confirms body is that of Georgiy Gongadze
Lessia Gongadze announced at the press conference that she was now ready to bury her son, which she has repeatedly refused to do since the body was discovered.
Miroslava and Lessia Gongadze were systematically denied any access to the investigation and were refused the right to launch a civil action until January 2001.
www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=5122   (607 words)

  
 Recent Events
No doubt, she is not among the 27.6% of respondents who assume that Georgiy Gongadze is dead as the three examinations of the "Tarashcha" body have "effectively proven".
The persistence with which Gongadze's mother and wife refuse to bury the " Tarashcha" body as that of their son and husband demanding that a new expert examination should be carried out has nothing to do with the eccentricities of grief-stricken relatives.
Valentina Minenko, who is the lawyer of Georgiy's wife Myroslava Gongadze, claims that the expert conclusion Georgiy's relatives had a chance to read establishes the fact of this body belonging to the missing journalist.
www.artukraine.com /events/gongadze2.htm   (1618 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ukraine Ex-Minister Linked to Murder Found Dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kravchenko was interior minister when Gongadze was killed and he had been due to give evidence to prosecutors on Friday.
Gongadze wrote for an Internet journal and was a harsh critic of Kuchma and top businessmen.
Yushchenko declared the murder solved this week and said the conduct of the investigation was a matter of "personal honor." Three policemen have been detained and a fourth is being sought.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/04/ukraine_ex_minister_linked_to_murder_found_dead_ifax_1109925735   (483 words)

  
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Kravchenko, interior minister at the time of Gongadze's murder in 2000, had been due to give evidence on Friday to prosecutors in connection with the case.
Gongadze's body remains unburied, kept in a Kiev mortuary.
The discovery of Gongadze's headless corpse outside Kiev became a turning point in the scandal-plagued 10-year term of former president Leonid Kuchma.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10007474&postID=110993989665362081   (447 words)

  
 Ukraine: Ukraine before the United Nations Human Rights Committee
On 3 November 2000 a decapitated body believed to be that of missing journalist Georgiy Gongadze was found in a shallow grave in woodland in the Tarashcha Rayon, not far from the capital, Kyiv.
The apparent "disappearance" of Georgiy Gongadze escalated into a fully-blown political scandal when, on 28 November 2000, the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Olexandr Moroz, accused President Leonid Kuchma of being implicated in the possible "disappearance".
Georgiy Gongadze's wife, Miroslava Gongadze, and mother have refused permission to bury the body, fearing that its identity has not been correctly established.
www.amnestyusa.org /countries/ukraine/document.do?id=A556A627410D260080256AD2003CD8BA   (12420 words)

  
 :: Lesya Gongadze lives on nurse salary and doesn’t want the grant from government :: Ukrayinska Pravda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Lesya Gongadze, mother of Georgiy Gongadze, is a national of Georgia.
Lesya Gongadze reminded about Georgian official representatives calling Myroslava Gongadze, in which they informed that they were going to name one of the streets in Tbilisi after her late husband.
According to the radiostation, Lesya Gongadze works as a nurse in a hospital and receives a salary which very often is spent on trips to Kyiv for summons to the General Prosecutor’s Office.
www.pravda.com.ua /en/archive/2005/march/21/news/1.shtml   (476 words)

  
 CHAMBER JUDGMENT GONGADZE v. UKRAINE
Her late husband, Georgiy Gongadze, was a political journalist and editor-in-chief of the “Ukrainskaya Pravda” Internet journal.
Lieutenant-General Pukach, an official of the Ministry of the Interior, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the disappearance of Mr Gongadze.
Gongadze and subsequent events, revealing the possible involvement of State officials in his disappearance and death, were neglected or simply denied without proper investigation for a considerable period of time.
www.echr.coe.int /Eng/Press/2005/Nov/ChamberJudgmentGongadzevUkraine81105.htm   (1881 words)

  
 National Union of Journalists: Remembering Gyorgy Gongadze - 16/09/2003
Late in the evening of 16 September 2000, independent investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze left a friend's house in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, but failed to return home to his wife and two children.
On 28 November 2000 the Georgiy Gongadze case escalated into a major political scandal when the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Olexandr Moroz, implicated President Leonid Kuchma in the "disappearance".
Please write, calling for a full investigation into the "disappearance" of Georgiy Gongadze and for those responsible to be brought to justice.
media.gn.apc.org /gongadze/030917d.html   (544 words)

  
 National Union of Journalists: Justice for Gyorgy Gongadze - meeting 16/09/2003
Summary of the statement by Myroslava Gongadze on the 3rd anniversary of the murder of Georgiy Gongadze - given at the public meeting in London, UK on September 16, 2003
According to Goncharov, Georgiy Gongadze was one of the targets of this gang, which acted on the orders of Minister of Interior Yurii Kravchenko, and later his successor Yurii Smyrnov.
Therefore, an international effort to bring justice in the case of Georgiy Gongadze's murder would become an important precedent for all those who have become, or become in future, victims of arbitrary state-sponsored violence.
media.gn.apc.org /gongadze/030917a.html   (777 words)

  
 FirsTnews / Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
KYIV, June 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Prosecutor General's Office is performing excavations at the spot of journalist Georgiy Gongadze's murder in a forest in the Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region, Deputy Public Prosecutor General Viktor Shokhin said in an interview with the Fakty I Commentarii newspaper published on Friday.
"Georgiy Gongadze was murdered in a forest in the Bila Tserkva district.
In other Gongadze news, the National Union of Journalists in Britain and Ireland (NUJ) and the Kyiv-based Institute of Mass Information (IMI) are insisting that the officials either responsible for criminal negligence in investigating Gongadze's murder or those who deliberately hindered the investigation be held liable.
www.firstnews.com.ua /en/article.html?id=65753   (321 words)

  
 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.
www.r2xmagazine.com /cgi-bin/news/news.cgi?action=print&num=81   (1150 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Plea rejected for criminal investigation of government officials in Ukrainian journalist's killing
Gongadze's mother, Lesia, last month called on the prosecutor general's office to investigate Kuchma, his administration chief Volodymyr Lytvyn and ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko in the case.
Gongadze that investigators have already checked the allegations from the former bodyguard and found them to be false, the Interfax news agency reported.
Georgiy Gongadze’s decapitated body was found last year near Kiev.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=15040   (467 words)

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