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An appeals court in Kyiv on Friday upheld a ruling that dropped a criminal case against former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on suspicion of involvement in organizing the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000. The charges against Kuchma were thrown out last month.Last year, a former senior official at the interior ministry confessed to strangling and beheading Gongadze but said he was acting on Kuchma’s orders.

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