[Mb-civic] Former Interior Minister Found Dead in Kiev

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Former Interior Minister Found Dead in Kiev 
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Ukrainian officials say Yuri Kravchenko shot himself. Prosecutors had sought to question him in the brutal slaying of a journalist in 2000.

By Kim Murphy and Mary Mycio
Special to The Times

March 5 2005

KIEV, Ukraine — Former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko was found shot to death in an apparent suicide Friday, just hours before he was to meet with prosecutors investigating the possible involvement of senior Ukrainian officials in the 2000 murder and beheading of a journalist. 

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