Lesya Gongadze

Lesya Gongadze speaks during the meeting on the Kyiv’s central street the day before the 1st anniversary since her son, the “Ukrainian Truth” Internet-paper editor, Georgi Gongadze disappeared on Saturday, Saturday 15, 2001 in Kyiv. This day on Khreshyatik, 27 (downtown Kyiv) on the house of the National Union of Journalist of Ukraine the plate “To the memory of journalists, who paid their lives for truth” was opened. Names of 18 journalists, who died in Ukrainian in 1992-2001, are cut there. Some 5 thousands of people took part in the meeting to the Georgy Gongadze’s memory, organized by the Parties Batkivshchina, Sobor, Ukrainian Republic Party, Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Party, UNSO, Socialistic Party. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN