The first reference documentary (26 minutes)
on the true story of Gongadze's unsolved murder.
It
all started on the night of September 16, 2000 when Georgy
Gongadze disappeared. This was the beginning of a crisis that
would consume the country for the next eight months. Gongadze
belonged to a new generation of Ukrainian journalists, one
that was more outspoken. 33 years old, he had worked in television,
helped start a radio station, and eventually an online news
website called "Ukrainian Truth" -
What
unfolded over the course of 8 months, and what continues today
is bigger than a murder mystery. But many questions remain
unanswered: Who benefited from the crime? which group, which
men? who really was Georgy Gongadze? Who was targeted through
the murder? And Who would all this damage the most?
This
is the story of how the murder of a young Ukrainian journalist
becomes the starting point of a major international geopolitical
struggle for the control of a key strategic country -Ukraine.
On
November 2nd, a body was found decapitated in Tarasha, a small
town near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
Georgy Gongadze: the crusading journalist had always been
a lightning rod for controversy, and his death would prove
to be no different.
It
all started on the night of September 16, 2000 when Georgy
Gongadze disappeared. This was the beginning of a crisis that
would consume the country for the next eight months. Gongadze
belonged to a new generation of Ukrainian journalists, one
that was more outspoken. 33 years old, he had worked in television,
helped start a radio station, and eventually an online news
website called "Ukrainian Truth" -