Untimely Deaths in Ukraine (LA Times)

[NoPasaran]

KIEV, Ukraine — By all official accounts, Yuri Kravchenko died by his own hand.

The former Ukrainian interior minister, scheduled to meet in just a few hours with prosecutors to give testimony in a high-profile case of political murder, aimed a gun at his chin and fired, sending a bullet ripping through his cheek and out his upper jaw. Then he aimed it at his temple and fired again.

Suicide, government investigators ruled.

Exactly 13.1% of Ukrainians who responded to a Kiev Post Internet poll believed it was suicide. More than 80% thought Kravchenko was slain this month to prevent him from testifying, possibly implicating former President Leonid D. Kuchma in the decapitation of journalist Georgi Gongadze and other crimes. Many are sure that even if Kravchenko pulled the trigger, he was driven to it by his powerful former friends.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kuchma13mar13,0,5770955.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Amazing how the US media can so easily become conspiracy theorists

about other countries.

The LA Times could just as easily publish "Untimely Deaths in the US." Except they wouldn't. So I guess it's not that easy after all.