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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 KyivAwards 2
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Connected to Giorgi 6
Lina KostenkoAlso won honorary citizen of Kyiv
Roman ShukhevychAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State
Victor PinchukAlso won honorary citizen of Kyiv
Bohdan StupkaAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State
Viacheslav ChornovilAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State
Mykola AmosovAlso won honorary citizen of KyivAbout this person
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1969 to 2000 · aged 31
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