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Giorgi Ghonghadze
Sign in to saveAlso known as Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze, Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze, Georgiy Gongadze, Heorhii Ruslanovych Gongadze
Ukrainian journalist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1969-05-21 ) May 21, 1969, Tbilisi , Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
- Disappeared
- 16 September 2000, Kyiv , Ukraine
- Died
- 17 September 2000 (2000-09-17) (aged 31), Sukholisy, Bila Tserkva Raion , Ukraine
- Cause of death
- Murder by strangulation
- Body discovered
- 3 November 2000
- Burial place
- St. Nicholas the Embankment Church [ uk ] , Kyiv, Ukraine
- Other name
- Giya
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (from 1991)
- Occupation
- Journalist
- Years active
- 1989–2000
- Known for
- Founding Ukrainska Pravda
- Spouses
- Mariana Stetsko ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1992 ) Myroslava Petryshyn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )
- Awards
- Hero of Ukraine
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Place of birth
- Tbilisi
- Place of death
- Tarashcha Raion
- Spouse
- Myroslava Gongadze
- Occupation
- film actor
- Position held
- editor-in-chief
- Educated at
- Lviv University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- journalism
- Image
- Georgi gongadse.jpg
- Residence
- Kyiv
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- date of death
- 2000-09-17
- Commons category
- Georgiy Gongadze
- date of birth
- 1969-05-21
- manner of death
- homicide
- name in native language
- Георгій Русланович Гонгадзе
- Commons gallery
- Georgiy Gongadze
- writing language
- Ukrainian
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- nickname
- Гія
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Encyclopedic overview
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) 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.
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. The official ruling of suicide was doubted by media reports.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giorgi Ghonghadze” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.