Sunday, March 6, 2005

Ukrainian Mischief

Former President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, has been of accused of the murder of reporter Georgiy Gongadze, famous for publishing embarrassed stories about corruption under the Kuchma administration. A Kuchma body guard fled Ukraine with hours of audio tapes, wherein Kuchma orders Foreign Minister Kravchenko to "get rid of" Gongadze (Kuchma claims the tapes have been doctored).

Now a new development:

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Yuri Kravchenko is said to have committed suicide over the investigation into the murder of reporter Georgiy Gongadze. There was even a suicide note where Kravchenko writes he killed himself because he claimed to have "become a victim of political intrigues of Kuchma and his entourage."

Still, one has to wonder how someone shoots himself in the head twice.

Read more here. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this looks like fowl play to me.

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