Topic: Leonid Kuchma
Ukraine's prosecutor general says Israel is refusing to extradite a former presidential bodyguard charged with abuse of office after claiming his...
A Ukrainian court on Wednesday dropped a criminal case against former president Leonid Kuchma into accusations he ordered the brutal murder of critical journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000.The Pechersky district court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev annulled the criminal probe after ...
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukraine court on Wednesday threw out a charge against former President Leonid Kuchma alleging involvement in the 2000 murder of an opposition journalist, ruling that secret tape recordings that appeared to incriminate him were inadmissible as evidence.The general ...
Ukraine's ex-president Leonid Kuchma hired a star US lawyer who worked on the O.J. Simpson trial to act as an advisor in his defence against charges over the murder of a reporter, his team said Monday.Alan Dershowitz has "joined ...
Ukraine on Thursday charged ex-president Leonid Kuchma over the 2000 murder of a journalist, its most notorious post-Soviet crime, amid doubts he could be jailed even if found guilty.Ukrainian prosecutors confirmed they had presented charges of "abuse of power" to Kuchma ...
Ukraine's ex-president Leonid Kuchma faced his first questioning Wednesday as a suspect in the murder of a journalist, insisting he was ready to go "through hell" to prove his innocence.Prosecutors the day before announced they had opened a criminal probe ...
Ukraine's ex-president Leonid Kuchma on Wednesday said he was ready to go through hell to prove he is innocent of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze, after arriving for questioning as a suspect.Prosecutors the day before announced they had opened ...
Ukraine opened a murder case Tuesday against ex-president Leonid Kuchma over the shocking 2000 beheading of journalist Georgy Gongadze in what became the most notorious crime in its post-Soviet history.The announcement by prosecutors came after years of pressure from Kuchma's ...
It can't be denied the events that have taken place in Ukraine don't look real but for the Ukrainians who have had to live through these dramatic times it has been a roller coaster . Basically the adoption of the Constitution ...
Ukraine's constitutional court Friday strengthened the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych by ruling that changes to the constitution agreed in 2004 that boosted parliament were illegal.The ruling -- prompted by a petition from over 250 pro-Yanukovych MPs in the Ukrainian parliament ...