Giorgi Ghonghadze
Ukrainian journalist · Ukraine · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1969 to 2000 · aged 31
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. The same year, he was kidnapped and murdered near Kyiv. Gongadze was born to a Ukrainian mother and a Georgian father in Tbilisi, Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union.
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Yuriy Kravchenko, Interior Minister of Ukraine and mastermind behind Gongadze's murder, in a photo from 2000
A memorial plate in Kyiv listing journalists who were killed while reporting; Gongadze's name is second from bottom.
Myroslava Gongadze, Gongadze's second wife and widow, has been an advocate of charging Gongadze's murderers.
A poster in Lviv blaming Volodymyr Lytvyn for Gongadze's death, 2005
The church in Kyiv, on the territory of which Gongadze is buried
A monument to Gongadze in Kyiv
