The Tacitus Project

Back in Ukraine, the ghost of Georgiy Gongadze, the investigative journalist murdered (decapitated) under suspicious circumstances, continued to take revenge on the former party of power, as former interior minister Yuri Kravchenko opted to commit suicide rather than testify in the murder investigation. Ukraine's prosecutor general this week said the case was near closure, a major victory for new Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and the erstwhile Ukrainian opposition, who used the unsolved Gongadze murder as a rallying cry for the past four years.

This is bad news for ex Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who has long denied involvement in the killing, though he has been caught on tape all but demanding Gongadze's life. This BBC story covers the basics pretty well. Check it out.