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Georgiy Gongadze

1969 - 2000

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Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) was a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. He was born in Tbilisi to a Ukrainian mother and a Georgian father. The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgiy Gongadze is the 16,269th most popular politician (down from 14,744th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 212th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Georgian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Georgiy Gongadze ranks 16,269 out of 19,576. Before him are Roberto Maroni, Philander C. Knox, Brigitte Zypries, Simon Guggenheim, Dolly Buster, and José Eusebio Otalora. After him are Harlow Curtice, Marjan Šarec, Lucius Cornelius Merula, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Toshimitsu Motegi, and Donald Ramotar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Georgiy Gongadze ranks 327. Before him are Shinichi Mochizuki, Alexis Arquette, Naoko Nishigai, Kirill Serebrennikov, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Dolly Buster. After him are Pat Monahan, Kotaro Nakao, Jamie Walters, Patrick Fiori, Viktor Onopko, and Almir. Among people deceased in 2000, Georgiy Gongadze ranks 291. Before him are Gwendolyn Brooks, Ernesto Albarracín, Helmut Berthold, Larry Linville, Masao Harada, and Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz. After him are Gwen Verdon, Kenneth Lee Pike, Raymundo Rodríguez, Curt Siodmak, Donald Dewar, and Antonio Maspes.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Georgiy Gongadze ranks 236 out of 406. Before him are Nikolai Bugaev (1837), Abel Aganbegyan (1932), Avtandil Koridze (1935), Zaur Kaloev (1931), Zurab Sakandelidze (1945), and Givi Kartozia (1929). After him are Zurab Noghaideli (1964), Mirian I of Iberia (null), Georgy Tovstonogov (1915), Levan Kobiashvili (1977), Oleksii Arestovych (1975), and Khatia Buniatishvili (1987).

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Among POLITICIANS In Georgia

Among politicians born in Georgia, Georgiy Gongadze ranks 85. Before him are Bogdan Kobulov (1904), Dilara Aliyeva (1929), Georges Pitoëff (1884), Giorgi Gakharia (1975), Vano Merabishvili (1968), and Grigol Vashadze (1958). After him are Zurab Noghaideli (1964), Mirian I of Iberia (null), Besarion Gugushvili (1945), Roman Dzindzichashvili (1944), Shalva Natelashvili (1958), and Maia Panjikidze (1960).

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