Georgiy Gongadze information

Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Gongadze
Георгій Ґонґадзе; გიორგი ღონღაძე;
Born	21 May 1969; Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Disappeared	16 September 2000; Kyiv, Ukraine
Died	17 September 2000 (aged 31); Tarashcha Woods, Tarashcha Raion, Ukraine
Cause of death	Murder by Decapitation
Body discovered	3 November 2000
Burial place	St. Nicholas the Embankment Church [uk], Kyiv
Other names	Giya
Citizenship	Ukraine
Alma mater	Tbilisi Institute of Foreign Languages (today Ilia State University); Lviv University (Romano-Germanic languages);
Occupation(s)	Political activist, journalist
Years active	1989–2000
Known for	Founder of Ukrainska Pravda
Spouses	; Mariana Stetsko (m. 1990; div. 1992) ; Myroslava Gongadze (m. 1996⁠–⁠2000)
Children	2 daughters
Parents	Ruslan Gongadze (father); Olesya Gongadze (mother);
Family	1 stepbrother
Awards
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union; Georgia;
Branch/service	Soviet Border Troops; Defense Forces of Georgia;
Years of service	1987–1989; 1991–1993;
Battles/wars	Georgian Civil War; War in Abkhazia;

Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze^[a] (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000)^[1] was a Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000.

The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. During the Cassette Scandal, audiotapes were released on which Kuchma, Volodymyr Lytvyn and other top-level administration officials are heard discussing the need to silence Gongadze for his online news reports about high-level corruption. Former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko died of two gunshot wounds to the head on 4 March 2005, just hours before he was to begin providing testimony as a witness in the case. Kravchenko was the superior of the four policemen who were charged with Gongadze's murder soon after Kravchenko's death.^[2] The official ruling of suicide was doubted by media reports.^[2]

Three former officials of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's foreign surveillance department and criminal intelligence unit^[3] (Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych) accused of his murder were arrested in March 2005 and a fourth one (Oleksiy Pukach, the former chief of the unit^[3]) in July 2009.^[4] A court in Ukraine sentenced Protasov to a sentence of 13 years and Kostenko and Popovych to 12-year terms March 2008 (the trial had begun January 2006^[5]) for the murder. Gongadze's family believe the trial had failed to bring the masterminds behind the killing to justice.^[6] No one has yet been charged with giving the order for Gongadze's murder.^[5]

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^ As established by the investigation and proved by the court. See Gongadze Case (2000–2008): A Legal Review by Dr iur Vyacheslav "Slavik" Bihun, LL.M. – http://www.bihun.info/jushits/jurhit/article/242/ Archived 27 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Key suspect in Gongadze murder arrested; Pukach allegedly strangled journalist, but who gave the order? (UPDATED), Kyiv Post, (22 July 2009)
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[2] As established by the investigation and proved by the court. See Gongadze Case (2000–2008): A Legal Review by Dr iur Vyacheslav "Slavik" Bihun, LL.M. – http://www.bihun.info/jushits/jurhit/article/242/ Archived 27 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[KP-3] Key suspect in Gongadze murder arrested; Pukach allegedly strangled journalist, but who gave the order? (UPDATED), Kyiv Post, (22 July 2009)

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[BBC3-6] Key Ukraine murder trial begins, BBC News (9 January 2006)

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Georgiy Gongadze
Георгій Ґонґадзе გიორგი ღონღაძე

Born	21 May 1969 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Disappeared	16 September 2000 Kyiv, Ukraine
Died	17 September 2000(2000-09-17) (aged 31) Tarashcha Woods, Tarashcha Raion, Ukraine
Cause of death	Murder by Decapitation
Body discovered	3 November 2000
Burial place	St. Nicholas the Embankment Church [uk], Kyiv
Other names	Giya
Citizenship	Ukraine
Alma mater	Tbilisi Institute of Foreign Languages (today Ilia State University) Lviv University (Romano-Germanic languages)
Occupation(s)	Political activist, journalist
Years active	1989–2000
Known for	Founder of Ukrainska Pravda
Spouses	Mariana Stetsko (m. 1990; div. 1992) Myroslava Gongadze (m. 1996⁠–⁠2000)
Children	2 daughters
Parents	Ruslan Gongadze (father) Olesya Gongadze (mother)
Family	1 stepbrother
Awards

Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union Georgia
Branch/service	Soviet Border Troops Defense Forces of Georgia
Years of service	1987–1989 1991–1993
Battles/wars	Georgian Civil War War in Abkhazia