Curiously my father, Georgiy Gongadze, an icon of Ukrainian journalism, was born not in Ukraine but in Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, in 1969. In the early 1990s he became a youth activist, travelling through the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. He ended up in Lviv, in western Ukraine, where he met my mother, Myroslava, a young woman who, like him, was testing the new-found freedoms of the era to practice independent journalism.
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Salome Gongadze: 20 years after my father’s abduction
A memorial plaque for journalist Georgiy Gongadze is revealed on Sept. 16, 2020, on the 20th anniversary of his murder in Kyiv,
