New York Times: Ex-president of Ukraine is implicated in 2000 killing

The former president of Ukraine whose political skulduggery helped precipitate that country’s democratic Orange Revolution seven years ago was officially named on Tuesday as a suspect in the killing of a prominent investigative journalist. Former President Leonid D. Kuchma, who served from 1994 to 2005, has repeatedly denied involvement in the 2000 murder of the journalist, Georgy Gongadze, and has withstood numerous efforts to bring him to trial for the crime. But, in a case that has become a test of Ukraine’s ability to break fully with an era of raucous and sometimes bloody politics after the Soviet collapse, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday that it now had enough evidence to link Mr. Kuchma, that era’s most prominent official, to the killing. Read the story here.