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...Yushchenko pledge. Yuri Kravchenko, who was the country's Interior Minister when Gongadze was killed, was found dead last week, just hours before he was due to give evidence in the case. Kuchma returned to Kiev on Saturday from the Czech Republic, and Yushchenko told Ukrainian TV that the former President's testimony "appears extremely important for the resolution of the case." In the longer term, boosting international confidence in Ukraine's economy will be crucial. Critically, outside experts say the country needs to improve corporate governance and the functioning of the nation's puny financial markets. Investors currently have...
...allowing a patient to be treated with HIV-infected untreated blood products in 1985; in Tokyo. The judge ruled that his actions could not be termed negligent because he may not have known at the time of the danger to the patient, who subsequently died from AIDS. SACKED. YURI KRAVCHENKO, 50, Ukrainian Interior Minister implicated by opposition groups in the murder of a journalist who was highly critical of the government; in Kiev. Kravchenko's dismissal came two months after the airing of tapes in which voices similar to his and that of President Leonid Kuchma discuss kidnapping reporter Georgy...
...Time). Instead they first saw a taped session in the office of Yegor Yakovlev, a reformist newspaper editor who had just been named head of state radio and television. Yakovlev had invited in several newscasters who had been barred from the airwaves by his predecessor, the hard-line Leonid Kravchenko, and asked them to put together a new evening news program, with almost no time to prepare. They did, fumbling through news copy and fluffing an occasional cue, but vowing repeatedly to tell the truth and only the truth...
...also accountable for the sudden illness of glasnost. Leonid Kravchenko, whom he appointed in November as chief of the State Committee for Television and Radio, has been systematically chipping away at the policy of openness. He suspended the popular music and information show Vzglyad (View) when it planned to broadcast a discussion of the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who had charged that dictatorship was returning. Kravchenko also forced Interfax, an independent alternative to the official Soviet news agency TASS, out of his headquarters...
...turnaround has been presided over by TASS Director General Leonid P. Kravchenko, 51, who took up his job 15 months ago, after serving as editor in chief of the trade-union newspaper Trud and as a top official at the state committee for television and radio. Sitting in his walnut-paneled office on the eighth floor of TASS headquarters, located just a few blocks east of the Kremlin, Kravchenko declares that there should no longer be any taboo subjects for TASS reporters. "We are going through our own perestroika here," he says. "I want our journalists to be known...