Victor Medvedchuk Mikhail Potebenko and Ivan Plyusch

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Mikhail Potebenko (center) speaks with the VR (parliament) Speaker Ivan Pliushch (right) and vice-Speaker Victor Medvedchuk in the VR sitting hall presidium in Kyiv, on Tuesday, December 12, 2000. On the very same day Potebenko declared that he did not see any reasons to institute proceedings against Minister of Interior Yuryi Kravchenko and Security Service Chairman Leonid Derkach, in accordance with the video-record data of evidence of the Security Service Officer Nikolay Melnichenko. Photo by Dmitryi Gavrish/ UNIAN