Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma has been charged in connection with the murder of the online journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose brutal slaying in 2000 triggered a national scandal.The prosecutor general's office confirmed on Thursday that Kuchma had been indicted, alleging that he had been responsible for "abuse of power leading to the death of the journalist Georgy Gongadze". But it stopped short of saying that the ex-president, who was in office from 1994 to 2005, had personally ordered the hit on Gongadze.Prosecutors opened a criminal case against Kuchma on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv the following day, he said that he felt "calm", adding that he was "ready to go through all the torments of hell so everybody knows what I've done and what I haven't done
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