Press-conference participants

From left to right: Doctor of Historical science, Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Petr Tolochko; leader of of the Communist party of Ukraine (CPU) Petr Simonenko; candidate of historical science, associate professor, the weekly "2000" editor, Sergey Kichigin and Mark Tauger, Professor of History West Virginia University (USA), specialist in Russian/Soviet History, Agrarian History, World History at the presentation of Mark Tauger's book "Hunger, Holodomor, Genocide" in Kiev, Thursday, November 27, 2008. In his book Mark Tauger argues that the 1932 harvest was smaller than the official estimate, and smaller than the harvest of 1933, which would suggest the famine was not "man-made" and totally accidental. Photo by Sergey Svetlitsky / UNIAN