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September 19, 2000
KIEV (AP) - The editor of an electronic newsletter critical of the government is missing in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, his publication and police reported Monday. Heorhiy Gongadze failed to come home Saturday night where his wife and two three-year-old children were waiting for him because he had no keys, according to Gongadze's newspaper, Ukrainska Pravda. "He was a responsible man and could not just disappear. We are continuing our search for Heorhiy and hope for the best," Ukrainska Pravda wrote. Police confirmed they were searching for Gongadze. An Interior Ministry spokesman said no fresh information was available in spite of police appeals to the public for help. President Leonid Kuchma expressed concern about Gongadze's disappearance and ordered law-enforcement bodies to pay special attention to the case, said his spokesman, Oleksandr Martynenko. In the summer, Gongadze complained to Ukraine's chief prosecutor that police allegedly were harassing him and his colleagues at Ur with a major Kiev daily was found hanged. |