In the hours after Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev, reports started surfacing that there were documents floating in the reservoir on his palatial 350-acre estate outside the capital. The estate is well known to the media as an off-limits locale; journalists, in fact, had never entered more than 300 yards past the front gate, and even at the height of Yanukovych’s openness and good relations, they had only been allowed to the front door to receive cakes on journalism day.
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Journalists and others study documents recovered from former President Viktor Yanukovych's 140-hectare luxury Mezhyhirya complex. Yanukovych fled on Feb. 22, the same day parliament impeached him for dereliction of duties and gross human rights violation
