Melnychenko drops another bombshell. Except, of course, that Ukraine’s compliant TV bosses will make sure it doesn’t explode.20 October 2004 Major Mykola Melnychenko, the whistleblower in the tape scandal, surfaced in Warsaw yesterday, with–guess what–new tapes. A voice “similar to that of Premier Yanukovych,” then the governor of Donetsk, is heard discussing with Kuchma back in 1999 his latest achievements […]

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