Lesya Gongadze

Journalist Georgy Gongadze's mother Lesya (center) cries, when listening the report of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor Mikhail Potebenko, in the VR (parliament) sitting hall in Kyiv, on January 10, 2001. In his report Mr. Potebenko did not give the concrete answer on the question if the body found in the Tarashchinskyi forest belongs to the disappeared journalist, though he admitted the probability of this fact. The VR deputies did not support the motion to continue the discussion of the General Prosecutor's information, concerning the Gongadze's case, and proceeded the consideration of other questions, entered on the agenda. Photo by Sergey Vasiliev/ UNIAN