Speaker Named in Slaying of Journalist
From Times Wire Reports
A commission investigating the kidnapping and killing of a journalist five years ago has accused parliament’s speaker of instigating the slaying, a website with the panel’s findings said.
Georgi Gongadze, an Internet journalist who wrote about corruption, was kidnapped and killed in 2000.
Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn had “instigated the abduction,” said the legislative commission.
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