94: The Georgiy Gongadze Affair | Ukraine

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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When an outspoken journalist and political commentator failed to return home after a day’s work, his wife knew he had been kidnapped in an attempt to silence him. Four months later his decapitated body was found in the woods outside Kyiv. This is the story of Georgiy Gongadze, whose death brought about historical change in a country in turmoil.

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0:45.1	It was Saturday night on the 16th of September 2000.
0:51.6	Georgie Gangadza had a lot on his mind.
0:54.9	He was a journalist, one of the most ambitious ones in Kyiv.
0:59.0	He had recently started an online newspaper with a direct and honest approach criticizing the Ukrainian government
1:04.7	in explosive articles written in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
1:10.0	He had recently received documents that proved corruption in the President's innermost circle of ministers.
1:15.0	If exposed, the already restless public would finally have the proof they needed.
1:20.0	Kuchmer was no God-fearing poster boy for democracy. He was a crooked politician who had been lying to his people
1:26.1	about rebuilding an independent Ukraine after years of Soviet rule. Giorgi knew the information in
1:32.2	his possession was a ticking time bomb.
1:35.0	The only question was, how should he expose the President and his entourage?
1:39.5	What would be the best way?
1:41.6	He wasn't sure if his online newspaper was the right place to publish an expose of this magnitude.
1:47.0	He wanted to solicit change, to ask the people of Ukraine to protest against the president and force him to step down.
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