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Virtual politics, real corruption

In Washington secretly recorded tapes ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon. In Kiev the same sort of material has galvanised the President"s team for a fight. It has also suggested that many of those eager to replace him have similarly murkey pasts. Politics Ukrainian style is a competition for power and wealth rather than Ideas - corruption has strength in depth.

FOR ALMOST SIX MONTHS the Gongadze scandal has engulfed Ukraine. It is a plot which could have been lifted from a James Ellroy pulp novel: secret tapes were supposedly recorded in President Leonid Kuchma's office by a disgruntled security officer, who has since claimed exile in the US. The resulting thousand hours of intimate ...

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