Word: mykola
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...says it is investigating Naftogaz for "misappropriating" gas that belongs to private energy company RosUkrEnergy; Tymoshenko says the SBU is being used by a "corrupt group" in a fight for gas she says belongs to Ukraine. "There's no such thing as a truce between cats and dogs," says Mykola Stasyuk, 53, as he waits in yet another bank line...
...Ukrainian government has repeatedly said that the arms are bound for Kenya. Mykola Malomuzh, the chief of Ukraine's state weapons-exporting agency, Ukrspetsexport, said Kenya had assured the government that it and not South Sudan was the owner of the tanks. "The cargo onboard the ship was transported under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and the Defense Ministry of Kenya," Malomuzh said Thursday...
...lack of law enforcement." The anticorruption watchdog Transparency International calls it one of the world's most corrupt countries, on par with Sudan and just above Iraq. Still, others are confident that Yushchenko is committed to transforming Ukraine's corrupt economy and institutions into a more robust democracy. Mykola Yakovyna, a key campaign staffer, said: "There is much more to Yushchenko than meets the eye." He may at times seem soft and irresolute, but "nothing can be further from the truth...
...three have turned up dead - including Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found by the side of a road in the Tarashchanskiy forest near Kiev in November 2000, two months after he disappeared. Gongadze had been writing articles critical of Kuchma and his top officials. That same November, Major Mykola Melnychenko, a former Kuchma bodyguard now in the U.S., released a secretly taped recording of a conversation in which Kuchma purportedly tells top aides that Gongadze should be "given" to Chechen guerrillas or otherwise disposed of. The government has repeatedly denied any role in his death. Unlike Gongadze, Mikhailo Kolomiets...